The Forest Service has been actively deconstructing roads for the past decade and we always said there was going to be a price paid for that.
Some of that is a good thing if one likes salmon.
hard to get some groups on with the fact that a clearcut can be a good thing. Get in there, get the cut done, put the road to bed.
Roads left in, without maintenance like clearing culverts and such, fail and impact streams in pretty serious way, especially in areas with heavy winter rains. Just the time salmon are spawning or have spawned and eggs are in the redds.
Again, this is a money thing. No one wants to pay for the upkeep of those roads. But they want the roads open for recreational use and fire breaks. If the try to sell some timber to cover it, it gets tied up in court suits.
fugged up situation all the way around.
While I would generally agree, especially being a salmon fisher, there will always be trade offs. We are facing a La Nina event this year in the NW so one can only imagine how much sediment is going to come rolling into the streams and rivers from the 100,000s of acres of now denuded landscape and it will to do so for years.
No free lunch right logger? We did all right around here lots of protruding rock anchoring things down. But up country where its rolling hills of silty soils they're still suffering landslides and flooding from the huge 2018 fires. As you know trees and their live roots soak up tremendous amounts of water, slow the run off, and anchor the soil. Burn up the trees you've got a problem for years to come. Its starting to heal up from the worst erosion damages in year one but highways were still closed this spring due to slides and flooding.
