Comments on: Action Alert: Save Our State Parks From Logging https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/01/19/action-alert-save-our-state-parks-from-logging/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Karen Yarnell https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/01/19/action-alert-save-our-state-parks-from-logging/#comment-214470 Karen Yarnell Thu, 01 Feb 2018 05:27:14 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=22365#comment-214470 Dear Friends, Senate Bill 270 and HB 4182 would lift an 80-year ban on commercial logging in West Virginia's State Parks and are now up for consideration by the West Virginia Legislature. These bills change the purpose of WV state parks from preservation and open the door for commercial logging, cutting up to one half of the trees in an acre, with an overall average of four trees per acre per tract. Logging roads will be built that fragment the forest, bad for nesting songbirds and disrupting the solitude of the mature forest. Contact your legislators and tell them that West Virginia's State Parks are important to you and you oppose opening them to commercial logging. Governor Justice and supporters of SB 270 and HB 4182 say the bills are necessary to pay for State Park maintenance, and that logging is good for forest health and wildlife viewing. Forest health, wildlife, clean water, and recreation are not mentioned in the bills. State parks need additional funding, but we can find a better way. Stand up for your State Parks! Karen Yarnell WV Wilderness Chair Sierra Club WV Chapter Dear Friends,

Senate Bill 270 and HB 4182 would lift an 80-year ban on commercial logging in West Virginia’s State Parks and are now up for consideration by the West Virginia Legislature.

These bills change the purpose of WV state parks from preservation and open the door for commercial logging, cutting up to one half of the trees in an acre, with an overall average of four trees per acre per tract. Logging roads will be built that fragment the forest, bad for nesting songbirds and disrupting the solitude of the mature forest.

Contact your legislators and tell them that West Virginia’s State Parks are important to you and you oppose opening them to commercial logging.

Governor Justice and supporters of SB 270 and HB 4182 say the bills are necessary to pay for State Park maintenance, and that logging is good for forest health and wildlife viewing. Forest health, wildlife, clean water, and recreation are not mentioned in the bills. State parks need additional funding, but we can find a better way. Stand up for your State Parks!

Karen Yarnell
WV Wilderness Chair
Sierra Club WV Chapter

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