Finding:
old-growth forest logging allowed, presence of threatened species
ignored.
A state-owned
700 hectare, unfragmented old-growth forest was fragmented with 50-100
hectare logging in the summer of 2000. In addition, several kilometres
of access road was constructed into the forest. In the old-growth
forest inventory by the Forest and Park Service the area was considered
to be valuable from a conservation perspective, and classified as
an A-site that should be protected by landscape
ecological planning. A threatened old-growth forest bird species,
red-flanked bluetail (Tarsinger cyanurus), has been observed
in the area, as well as at least four other species classified as
near-threatened or vulnerable.
Source
of information: inventory reports and logging maps given by the
FPS
Probable
buyer of the timber: StoraEnso
