After the World Water Day community hike to the Doc Holliday Unit 1 in the Sadie Creek Recreation area, there were requests to venture into the wild Unit 5. Twelve of us went on a no-trail, rainy, bushwhacking adventure through an amazing legacy forest that’s at imminent risk of logging, led by Peter and Jeff. It features huge silver spruce trees, large cedar, douglas fir, hemlock, and big-leaf maple trees, surrounded by lush wetlands filled with salmonberry bushes and devil’s club.
Walking through ‘Doc Holliday’ Unit 5 is like walking through Olympic National Park. It’s a complex, biodiverse and naturally regenerated legacy forest, containing large diameter trees, standing snags and large dead wood on the forest floor. It’s a critical resource for our climate crisis and loss of biodiversity. Unit 5 was previously classified by DNR as “Higher Quality” murrelet habitat and the SEPA checklist acknowledged that Unit 2 has the endangered marbled murrelets on or near the site!
URGENT ACTION
Logging could start at the Doc Holliday forest any day! Please call (360) 902-1000 or email (cpl@dnr.wa.gov) Commissioner Upthegrove today and ask him to stop it!
Also, please sign a letter in solidarity with the S’Klallam people asking DNR to cancel the sale.
The S’Klallam people have written a letter detailing the ecological and cultural importance of this forest, including for medicinal plant gathering. Add your name in solidarity asking Commissioner Upthegrove to cancel this timber sale so that current and future generations can enjoy the beauty of this forest!
Sign S’Klallam Letter to Commissioner Upthegrove on Doc Holliday
Photos by Scott & Carolita McGee / Forest2Sea.com
