Tap 1 Timber Sale

The Forest service has decide that the Tap 1 Thinning project fits a Category 12 Categorical Exclusion (CE) which allows for harvest of live trees on areas not to exceed 70 acres, despite the fact that it is directly adjacent to the Tap 2 Salvage project which is 100 acres. Bark does not support the Bush Administration ‘s new CE authorities, which allow areas to be logged without any environmental review. These side-by-side projects now can take place without any analysis of their cumulative impact to the environment.