Worth More Standing: The Poor Windy Timber Sale with George Sexton & Sangye Ince Johannsen

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Today’s episode is part of an ongoing semi- monthly series i’m putting together on Threatened Mature and Old Growth Forest in the united states. Mature and oldgrowth forest are vital resources for carbon sequestration, biodiversity resilience, watershed protection, air purification, and so much more.

some studies show that old growth counts for as little as seven percent of our remaining forestlands. Yet mature and old growth forests, which by definition take generations to regenerate, are being logged right now.

Literally, if you’re listening to this during daylight hours, these heroes of our world are on the chopping block. And it’s not just about the trees, it’s about the entire ecosystems that they anchor.

That’s why the Coast Range Association is proud to be a part of the Climate Forests campaign. Over the next few months, every couple episodes or so, I’ll be profiling a different threatened forest and some of the organizations working to protect them.

These episodes are stand alone, but I suggest checking out episode 45 with Lauren Anderson to get a good overview of the Climate Forests campaign. You can find that, and all episodes of Coast Range Radio, wherever you get your podcasts or at Coast Range dot org.

Speaking of our website, quick note: Most of the forests I’ll be profiling are on public land, but private timberland reform is an absolutely critical piece of the puzzle as well, and I’d encourage anyone listening to go to coast range dot org and check out our Green New Deal for Industrial Forests Proposal.

Today, I’m bringing you excerpts from two interviews I did looking at Forest on Bureau of Land Management land threatened by a pair of timber sales called ‘Poor Windy” and Evans creek

I spoke with Sangye Ince-Johannsen, staff attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, or WELC, and George Sexton, conservation director for the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, also known as KS Wild.

I really enjoyed my conversations with George and Sangye, and there was a lot I couldn’t fit into the radio episode, so I’ll be releasing bonus episodes of the separate conversations into the podcast feed over the next week or so. Let me know what you think of the format!

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Research Links/Show Notes:

Worth more standing report: https://www.climate-forests.org/worth-more-standing

Poor Windy: https://www.climate-forests.org/post/medford-district-bureau-of-land-management-oregon-poor-windy-project

https://westernlaw.org/court-approval-of-old-growth-sales-in-northern-spotted-owl-habitat-violated-endangered-species-act/

https://www.invw.org/2022/09/09/in-the-northwest-and-beyond-mature-and-old-growth-trees-remain-under-threat-in-spite-of-bidens-move-to-protect-them/

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