Is logging allowed in Bull Run?
There has been no logging since 1993 and no future timber sales are planned. In October 1996, the U.S. Congress passed amendments to the 1977 Bull Run Act (Public Law 95-200) that strengthened restrictions on logging within the watershed. Prior to these restrictions, about 16% of the Bull Run water-supply drainage was clearcut logged between 1958 (when the Forest Service initiated logging activities on National Forest land in the Bull Run) and 1993. (This figure does not include land that was cleared for construction of Reservoir 1 and Reservoir 2 for water storage.) The only timber harvest in the watershed since 1984 has been salvage of trees blown down by a severe windstorm in December, 1983. On about 7% of the watershed, the Forest Service conducted partial-cut logging, a practice in which individual trees are selectively removed. Some of the areas that were initially partial-cut sustained significant damage during a 1983 windstorm and were subsequently salvage-logged by clearcuttin
