HomeMy WebLinkAbout072522 FW_ Pennywise Timber Sale - Please consider requesting a change in the sale
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From: Patricia Jones
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2022 9:38:22 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
To: Heidi Eisenhour; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean
Subject: Fwd: Pennywise Timber Sale - Please consider requesting a change in the sale
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Commissioners - resending my email in case there was a lag in my ability to make technology work! Thank you.
Patricia
Patricia A. Jones, PhD (she/her/hers)
Executive Director
Olympic Forest Coalition
jonespatriciann@gmail.com <mailto:jonespatriciann@gmail.com>
+ 360 - 774 - 3384
http://olympicforest.org/
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From: Patricia Jones <jonespatriciann@gmail.com <mailto:jonespatriciann@gmail.com> >
Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:33 PM
Subject: Pennywise Timber Sale - Please consider requesting a change in the sale
To: Heidi Eisenhour <heisenhour@co.jefferson.wa.us <mailto:heisenhour@co.jefferson.wa.us> >, Greg Brotherton <gbrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us <mailto:gbrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us> >,
<kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us <mailto:kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us> >
Commissioners -
Thank you for your willingness to engage on the Pennywise sale. In our letter, we requested that the BOCC consider asking the DNR to review Pennywise and change the sale. Further to
that point - OFCO is asking that the BOCC consider asking Chickadee Forestry to review the Pennywise sale with the goal of proposing to DNR a change in the sale. Unit 7 holds some very
important older forest. Unit 7 is roughly older forest in the Eastern portion that should be preserved, while the Western portion of that unit is plantation stand. As currently configured,
the sale requires a new road for the Eastern Unit 7 older forest.
Please consider asking Chickadee to review the sale, and evaluate whether the BOCC should recommend to DNR to remove roughly the Eastern half of Unit 7, containing the older forest,
eliminate the expense of new road, include the Western half of Unit 7 in a revised sale, and add any other of the surrounding plantation stands to make the sale viable as needed.
My concern is that this sale can be changed to meet the ecological interests of conservation, and the volume and economic interests of the junior taxing districts. If Pennywise continues
to clear cut in its current configuration, then it is a "winner take all" approach and no conservation concerns are being addressed.
I will note that the Washington Supreme Court has announced this afternoon that it will issue its opinion in the "All the People" case tomorrow morning at 8:30.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Patricia Jones
Patricia A. Jones, PhD (she/her/hers)
Executive Director
Olympic Forest Coalition
jonespatriciann@gmail.com <mailto:jonespatriciann@gmail.com>
+ 360 - 774 - 3384
http://olympicforest.org/