U. S. Forest Service Misrepresenting the Historic Condition of Western Forests and the Effects of Fire Suppression and Logging.
An 8-page report by Keith Hammer. August 2000, revised December 2001. This report is available in pdf format (646k) and the photos it utilizes are also available individually in high-resolution jpeg format. Ponderosa-Poster-Child.pdf
Our one-page poster, "Text, Lies and Photographs" summarizes Forest Service misrepresentations of the Bitterroot's historic ponderosa pine forests and is available as a pdf file (96k pdf). PPine-Poster.pdf
Lick Creek Poster (820k high res version): "USFS Poster: 88 Years of Change in Ponderosa Pine Forest."
High resolution images of pertinent Forest Service photos can be viewed or downloaded by viewing the full article:
Lick Creek Photo #1 (424k high res version): Historic Lick Creek forest conditions, shown in 1909, "immediately before partial cutting."
Lick Creek Photo #2 (492k high res version): "Cleanup operations on the Lick Creek timber sale" falsely presented "as the baseline reference of forest stand conditions that evolved from regularly occurring, low-intensity surface burning." (From the 1983 USFS General Technical Report INT-158 and the April 13, 2000 "Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems - A Cohesive Strategy: The Forest Service Response to the General Accounting Office Report GAO/RCED-99-65," respectively).
Lick Creek Photo #3 (328k high res version): The 1997 results of recent Lick Creek "ecosystem management treatments" intended to return the forest to fictitious historic conditions.
Photos by US Forest Service.
