The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed a huge logging sale just north of Grants Pass, aptly called the “Last Chance Project.” The project would remove over 3,400 acres of spotted owl habitat, target nearly 1,300 acres of riparian areas for logging, and allow dozens of miles of new logging roads, including through critical coho salmon habitat and old-growth stands. Yet the BLM has the audacity to say the project’s impacts won’t be significant!

The Last Chance Project’s conversion of mature forest to “early successional” stands, as well as the creation of 4-acre clearcut “gaps” throughout the area, will increase fire hazards across the landscape. This is completely contrary to the approach the BLM should be taking on our public lands. The BLM is also ignoring Executive Order 14072, which directs federal agencies to conserve and promote mature and old-growth forests for biodiversity and as a natural climate solution.

The BLM is accepting public comments on the draft environmental assessment for the Last Chance Project until Friday, August 9

Email your comments to:  BLM_OR_GP_ProjectInbox@blm.gov