Join us to Rally for Green Ridge in Sisters!

Join the Wild Ecosystems Alliance and Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project on June 28th in Sisters, Oregon, to call on the Forest Service to withdraw their draft decision and abandon the planned Green Ridge Landscape Restoration (Timber Sale) Project.

Rather than move forward with this timber sale, the Forest Service should work together with the local community to develop a rewilding project from the ground up that better suits this special and unique place. Portions of Green Ridge have been previously logged and have experienced unnatural disturbances, but further logging and road building is a step in the wrong direction. Green Ridge is still a wild and ecologically important place-let’s give this area a chance to heal!

Join us: Hikers, Bikers, Birders, Campers, Wildlife Watchers, Hunters, Anglers, Nature Lovers, and all citizens who care about our federal lands in Central Oregon and who want a better, wilder future for the Metolius Basin and beyond.

The Forest Service plans to log 5.25 million board feet of lumber on Green Ridge. Green Ridge is part of the world-renowned Metolius River Basin and should be protected for its ecological importance. This area is home to black bear, elk, mule deer, cougar, and two federally listed threatened and endangered species: northern spotted owl, and gray wolf. Logging here would increase the threat of wildlife spreading to nearby communities, by drying out the forest and increasing wind penetration.

The Forest Service is using confusing language and arbitrary standards for retaining large trees across the project area. Old growth trees are at risk of being logged. The Forest Service also plans on logging in Late Successional Reserve forests; our future old growth.

You can also email Holly Jewkes holly.jewkes@usda.gov & Ian Reed ian.reid2@usda.gov and politely ask that they withdraw the Green Ridge Project!