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Home My WebLink About011723 FW_ _WAStateLands_ Pennywise ________________________________ From: Fayette Krause Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:43:50 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: olympic.region@dnr.wa.gov Cc: cpl@dnr.wa.gov; duanne.emmons@dnr.wa.gov; bnr@dnr.wa.gov; Washington State Lands Working Group; Elizabeth Dunne; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean; John Talberth; Leader News Subject: Re: [WAStateLands] Pennywise ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ If the below report is accurate, the "harvest" of Pennywise demonstrates a lack of DNR oversight in enforcing its contractual agreements. Moreover, the report below indicates that the buyer of the sale assumes that DNR does not do "due diligence" in ensuring that its sale agreement is subject to post-harvest monitoring. The Pennywise Forest in Jefferson County should never have been logged, in the first place. We in Jefferson County, and the entire state, are poorer because of it. But the most at risk segment of the population are the young. Let's all make certain that our Legacy Forests remain a true legacy -- for the sake of future generations. Fayette F. Krause Pt. Townsend, WA From: 'Jessica Randall' via Washington State Lands Working Group <mailto:pnwfca-wastatelands@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 11:48 PM To: olympic.region@dnr.wa.gov <mailto:olympic.region@dnr.wa.gov> Cc: fp_oly@dnr.wa.gov <mailto:fp_oly@dnr.wa.gov> ; duanne.emmons@dnr.wa.gov <mailto:duanne.emmons@dnr.wa.gov> ; Washington State Lands Working Group <mailto:pnwfca-wastatelands@googlegroups.com> ; Peter Goldman <mailto:pgoldman@wflc.org> ; Elizabeth Dunne <mailto:edunne@earthlaw.org> ; David Perk <mailto:davidperk@comcast.net> ; Teri Wright <mailto:twright57e@gmail.com> ; Heidi Eisenhour <mailto:heisenhour@co.jefferson.wa.us> ; Greg Brotherton <mailto:gbrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us> ; Kate Dean <mailto:kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us> ; John Talberth <mailto:jtalberth@sustainable-economy.org> ; Stephen Kropp <mailto:kropp.stephen@gmail.com> ; bnr@dnr.wa.gov <mailto:bnr@dnr.wa.gov> Subject: [WAStateLands] Pennywise To Whom it Concerns, It has come to our attention that the Pennywise Forest in Jefferson County, under great controversy to harvest at all from the start due to its ecological sovereignty, has been to date illegally harvested. Most of the "leave trees" have been cut and are staged at the logging road for imminent removal. It will likely happen in the early morning hours of 1/17/23. Some of the lower trunks of the larger "leave trees" have been cut off and hidden in the slash piles, perhaps because their size would make them illegal to harvest. The slash piles are well stacked onto the "leave tree" stumps, hiding them from view and eventually burning them into nonexistence. The logging company (Sierra Pacific) has attempted to obliterate the "leave tree' markings by scraping the bark with their equipment, including the blue stripes around the trunks of the trees and other markings. This was only marginally successful, so many trees show partial marking obliteration, making it in a way even more noticeable. This and additional proof of this illegal harvest are well noted and significant evidence has been gathered. The least the Department of Natural Resources can do in this day and age of climate change and species loss, is to enforce the integrity of the contracts of these timber companies, especially in regard to our extremely small number of naturally regenerated and older forests upon which we all rely for many ecosystem services and species survival. It's remarkable to me that the DNR would allow such degradation and selfish profiteering to occur under their watch. The whole operation seemed poised to selling off the larger trees, which the Jefferson County Commissioners were convinced would stay by the DNR's earlier promises. From the onset, the Pennywise Forest has been under dispute, and to take it down in such an egregious and illegal fashion is hopefully not a sign of the intentions of our public land harvests moving forward. Jessica Randall Jefferson County, WA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Washington State Lands Working Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pnwfca-wastatelands+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pnwfca-wastatelands/1894295554.1978643.1673941684685%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pnwfca-wastatelands /1894295554.1978643.1673941684685%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> .