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Old-Growth forests in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon (near Roseburg) roll down the highway to the Boise-Cascade mill. The Bear Paw and Pinestrip timber sales are two examples of how our public forests are being sold to the multi-national timber companies. Boise-Cascade clearcut these forests in 2000 and 2001 so that you can buy unrecycled, virgin paper made from ancient forests. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- These clearcuts will now be replanted so they can be continually mined for wood fiber in tree-plantations for the benefit of companies like Boise-Cascade. They will never again be allowed to return to 600 year old ancient forests. They are gone forever. --- -- -- -- -- -- -- Browse through the 22 picutres of before/after photos, aerial shots, and our protests of the logging. In the end, they got their way and the Mt. Bailey 18,000 acre roadless got 4 miles of new permanent logging roads. --- --- --- -- Much of this happened in our highest recreation use on the Umpqua National Forest. At the other end of the Mt. Bailey roadless area is the popular Diamond Lake. Hikers on the wild trails now get to hike through Boise-Cascade clearcuts.

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