How did the Millicoma Between timber sale occur outside of the public view and in apparent disregard of public safety? An Alleghany family may find their drinking water destroyed and their home threatened by mudslides unless the public have a chance to weigh in on what appears to have been a backroom deal between ODF and the timber company logging the Millicoma Between sale.

On Monday Morning at 10AM, Barbara Shamet and Wolfgang Schwarz, residents of Alleghany, OR, will peacefully confront loggers actively engaged in cutting the “South Marlow Switch Area 5″ timber sale along with friends, family and supporters. The group’s goal is to speak directly with workers and request that they cease operations until the legality of the timber sale is resolved.

Questions posed to Norma Kline of ODF from Cascadia Wildlands

The 2012 AOP, page 5, tells us in a footnote that “Millicoma Between was deleted from the 2010 AOP and substituted for a public safety deleted unit in 2007’s South Marlow Switch.”

The 2007 South Marlow Switch had 3 areas totaling 81 clearcut acres. Which of the three areas in South Marlow Switch was deleted for public safety and replaced by Millicoma Between? Was there an adjustment made on the sale price, and how was that negotiated? Were any other units added?

Since there was never a Millicoma Between sale advertisement, I did not see a Biological Survey Report or an Exhibit A map. Please send those to me.

There were two Millicoma Between pre-op reports, one for FY 2009 and one for FY 2010. Those two reports are a little different. I assume the loggers are working off of the FY 2010, which has fish-bearing streams where the FY 2009 does not. They are leaving a 100′ buffer on the fish-bearing streams, right?

The 2010 Millicoma Between pre-op report says, under section IX Slope Stability, that this unit is a “High Landslide Hazard”, right above private land. Is it less of a landslide risk to that private land than the unit that was dropped in South Marlow Switch, that Millicoma Between is a substitute for?

The Slope Stability section also says that “A closer examination will be made during the sale layout process…”, and “When Lidar images become available for the Elliott they will be reviewed for this planned sale.” Send us the results of those two reviews.

A final question: Why was Millicoma Between never offered for sale in FY 2010?