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The North Kaibab Ranger District has just proposed one of the largest and most destructive logging projects in recent history.  It plans to log approximately 85 million board feet from the forests of the north rim of the Grand Canyon. A commercial timber sale of that size would be considered large even in the Pacific Northwest, but on the arid rim of the Grand Canyon, it is vast.

The Forest Service proposes to tractor-log about 10,000 acres of forestland that have already been impaired by forest fire.  Tractor logging, though cheap, is the most destructive form of logging because it entails driving heavy machinery over fragile forest soils and dragging trees out over the ground; it causes huge impacts to soil and water quality and opens pathways for non-native species like thistles and cheatgrass.  Cheatgrass has already saturated the western side of the North Kaibab Ranger District and is currently working its way down Kanab Creek into the national park.

Please help us stop this enormously destructive and unnecessary commercial logging project by sending the letter below, writing your own, or attending one of the public meetings.

Public meetings:

February 8, 7-9pm at Flagstaff High School

February 9, 2-4pm at Grand Staircase-Escalante N.M. visitor center in Kanab, Utah