John Day, OR: Where is the information on salvage?
The objectives and standards and timber harvest activity levels are assumed to apply to salvage as well as harvest of green trees. 99. John Day, OR: Why not cut more of the larger trees and leave smaller future trees standing? Larger trees also produce more money for projects. Answer: Forests of the Northwest evolved with fire as an important component of the ecosystem. Large trees tend to be resistant to periodic ground fires, which historically helped to sustain large trees at low to mid-elevations. Large trees are especially important to cavity-nesting birds and mammals. The number of large trees has declined and continues to decline. We do not need to have large trees everywhere on the landscape, but we need more of them. 100. Bonners Ferry, ID: Are our forests really in as bad shape as the Draft EIS says? Answer: The Columbia Basin forests were historically in balance with their physical environment and position on the landscape. However, the Scientific Assessment documents that t
