MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A proposed 80,000-acre pilot project to improve forest health and reduce catastrophic wildfires while producing timber harvests in the Applegate Valley of southern Oregon appears to be moving forward.
The Mail Tribune reports the Medford District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to sell some timber from the project in September — about eight months from now.
For a federal land management agency, that’s warp speed for timber projects, which normally take years from proposal to sale.
The community-driven project was proposed by the Applegate Partnership and the Southern Oregon Small Diameter Collaborative, originally known as the “Knitting Circle.”
