Update April 13th, 2026: Logging is occurring behind Blairsden, CA, and now moving east toward Portola. Communities immediately threatened include Cromberg and Mohawk Vista. The vast majority of the carbon in these trees will end up in the atmosphere, worsening the climate crisis. Trees are the most viable way to capture and store excess carbon. Industrial “thinning” is setting us on a trajectory to a dangerous and inhospitable climate, and putting nearby communities at risk.
UPDATE MARCH 30: Reports have come in over the weekend of intense industrial logging NW of Blaisden, CA going on now…
The below photos were taken Sunday March 22nd east of Quincy just east of Lee Summit, right off of Highway 70. This is part of the US Forest Service’s “Community Protection Project” that threatens 200,000+ acres in the area, unless we stop it with our lawsuit (hearing expected in May).
If you want to see what the Forest Service is planning for other Plumas County community’s forests, stop by and take a look. This is not “restoration”– this is heavy equipment causing industrial devastation to the forest. The disparity between the USFS detailed reports assuring respect will be given, and the reality of torn-up nature, is quite stark. When we were there in the evening, the forest was strangely silent– no birdsong or other typical sounds of the forest….
It is beautiful weather here in the Sierra (at least for the next few days)– more like May than March. Consider coming to Plumas County and helping us conduct forest surveys, and help us raise awareness about how forest “treatments” like this endanger the public through higher speed wildfires etc. We can recommend places to visit, and places to stay. It’s time to mobilize and stop this cancer from spreading across the landscape, especially into biologically rich and diverse areas.
OMG! This is management?
Leave the old trees alone, or there will be no forest or animal life left in the Plumas.
Stop this wreckless behavior in the forest!
I hear people say what a great job everyone is doing? From these photos I am sure that is NOT TRUE!
Wake up!
People need to feel like what they and their culture are doing is right and just. It’s amazing the contortions that people go through just to convince themselves that this is moral. As you say, wake up!
Please leave the forest alone, please do not cut down trees, trees are for ecosystem for everyone and for every living animals and humans.
The thugs are definitely in power looting and raping our country’s resources. Fire science that expressly acknowledges how important canopy is and old growth is to prevent a forest fire destruction is totally absent here it is heating up and drying out our forest and making it so that it endangers firefighters and ourselves and the planet the best thing we can do now is not have children and adopt the ones that need homes because there’s no future for us there’s no future for the Wildlife and apparently none of us have the ability to stop them all we can do is tell homeowners to no longer build with wood and look on YouTube for all the marvelous alternatives for building and no more wooden fences forests are being turned into fences I am so horrified and heartbroken boycott wood