The U.S. Forest Service is proposing roughly 1,200 acres of commercial logging along 40 miles of the South Fork Mountain ridge under the banner of "fire safety," while also constructing 141 new log-landing clearings and opening nearly 15 miles of “temporary” roads across some of the most landslide-prone slopes in California. This ridge is the only continuous overland wildlife corridor linking the Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel and the Trinity Alps Wilderness. The rivers, forests, and wildlife of South Fork Mountain deserve a fire strategy grounded in ecology, not driven by timber extraction.

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