Salvage Logging Report
In 1995, eight prestigious aquatic scientists produced a consensus report, Wildfire and Salvage Logging, Recommendations for Ecologically Sound Post-Fire Salvage Management and Other Post-Fire Treatment, which provides scientifically-sound recommendations related to post-fire land management. The recommendations include completely foregoing all logging in severely burned areas. The report's authors include WNTC staff, Dr. C. Frissell with Pacific Rivers Council, and J.J. Rhodes, Aquatic Scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity.
Post-fire salvage logging on public lands continues to be a primary threat to the continued persistence of native trout throughout the West. The USFS and USBLM have continued to aggressively pursue large-scale, ecologically damaging salvage logging under false pretense of "restoring" burned areas. The Center for Biological Diversity has been working to stop damage from salvage logging to native trout in
California: http://www.westerntrout.org/trout/big_bar.htm
Montana http://www.endangeredearth.org/alerts/result-m.asp?index=1091
and other areas in the West.