The Intent timber sale located in Pacific County targets some of the last 2% of the Willipa Watersheds legacy forests, this area located on Mill Creek is scheduled to be logged in 2025.
Intent Timber Sale (WA DNR)
Auger In Timber Sale (WA DNR)
The "Auger In" timber sale is located in the headwaters of the Chehalis River and is scheduled for auction in March 2025. Unit 2 of this timber sale contains hundreds of old growth hemlock trees and is for all intents and purposes an old growth forest, in a region that has almost none. This sale is likely Marbled Murrelet habitat. DNR is required to do an old growth assessment of this forest before auctioning it, and if we are lucky unit two will be dropped from the timber sale. That being said, this timber sale is located in the Pacific Cascade region of the DNR which regularly logs small sections of old growth and may log a big section like this one given that it was selectively logged in the past.
Auger In U2
"Shift The Paradigm" Timber Sale (WADNR)
The "Shift The Paradigm" timber sale which is scheduled for auction in November 2024 targets some of the best remaining legacy forests in the Willapa River watershed, this watershed has just 0.2% of its original old growth forest remaining, and only 2.1% of the watershed contains legacy forests. The forest contained within unit one of his timber sale contains a dominant cohort of trees that are over 200 feet tall. This forest is easily one of the best and only opportunities to regain old growth forest across any part of this watershed. It is a top conservation priority.
Shift The Paradigm U1
Shift The Paradigm U2
Shift The Paradigm U3
Jigsaw Timber Sale (WA DNR)
The Jigsaw Timber Sale is located in the Willapa Bay watershed and will clear cut an area that contains dozens of remnant old growth trees. This region contains almost no old growth and this sale would fragment an already fragmented stand of old growth that was selectively logged in the 1950s. While the biggest cedar trees will be left standing, either in riparian buffers or as individual leave trees, dozens of old growth Hemlock are set to be cut down, and this ecosystem that has begun to knit itself back together will once again be fragmented. The rest of the timber sale consists of plantation hemlock, which are reminiscent of the landscape across this region.
Jigsaw U3
Jigsaw U1
"Final" Timber Sale (WA DNR)
The "final" timber sale is planned for 2024–2025, it is located in the Grays River headwaters in Pacific County in an area heavily used by the threatened Marbled Murrelet seabird.
To learn more visit wlcfd.org
In The Pipeline Timber Sale (WA DNR)
The In The Pipeline Timber Sale located in Pacific County Washington contains trees over 5 feet in diameter. It is a Legacy Forest up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands. The forest re-generated from logging in the early 1900s and is now around 100 years old. It, and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit wlfdc.org
This sale is scheduled for auction in November 2023.
