TROUT LAKE — Comments are being sought by Dec. 20 on a proposal by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to do salvage logging on approximately 250 acres that burned in this summer’s Cougar Creek Fire.
The five proposed salvage units are roughly between Aiken Lava Bed on the west and Snipes Mountain and Bunnell Butte on the east.
The fire burned 54,000 acres of which 5,607 were on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Almost 3,000 acres of mature forest burned on Forest Service land.
A Forest Service team will evaluate the proposal during this winter. A decision in expected by late winter 2016.
For more information, call Ben Hoppus, team leader of the project, at 509-395-3405 or email him at bhoppus@fs.fed.us.
