Protect Salt Creek & Freshwater Bay Legacy Forests! 
Add your name to our letter below to help stop the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) "Tiger Stripes" and "Bird's Eye View" timber sales next to Salt Creek Recreation Area and Freshwater Bay!  
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Dear Commissioner Upthegrove and Members of the Board of Natural Resources: 

Re: Legacy Forests in DNR’s Striped Peak Area (Olympic Peninsula) – “Tiger Stripes” & “Bird’s Eye View” Timber Sales 


We are writing in opposition to the logging of legacy forests in the Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Striped Peak Recreation Area. Striped Peak is between Clallam County’s popular Salt Creek Recreation Area and Freshwater Bay on the Olympic Peninsula. Two planned DNR timber sales – “Tiger Stripes” and “Bird’s Eye View” – would log approximately 300 acres of rare coastal forest, adjacent to the region’s most popular coastal park.   

Salt Creek Recreation Area sees approximately 20,000 visitors per year. It is loved by locals and frequented by visitors from Seattle and around the State as well as international travelers. Hundreds filled out a recent Clallam County parks planning survey expressing a desire to see these legacy forests conserved. People hike from Salt Creek into the Striped Peak area. The “Bird’s Eye View” sale would cut right through the middle of the most popular Striped Peak trail loop as seen in the image below, clear-cutting almost half of the Strait Slope Trail. The Tiger Stripes sale would decimate the hillsides near Freshwater Bay and also part of the Strait Slope Trail.

Protection of this area would create an intact coastal ecosystem, with many trees over 150 years old living among rare plants and lichens, and supporting nesting sites for bald eagles and endangered shorebirds. DNR’s own Natural Heritage Program has identified globally and state endangered and threatened ecosystems within the Tiger Stripes timber sale area. In response DNR removed about 20 acres from the sale, but the endangered areas would be surrounded by clearcuts and the integrity of the intact ecosystem compromised.     

We feel confident that you can find alternatives to logging that generate revenue for beneficiaries without destroying the natural wonders that bring millions annually in tourist dollars. Please halt these timber sales and protect these forests so future generations may experience the unique beauty of this place. 


Sincerely, 
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Figure 1: Salt Creek Recreation Area
Figure 2: Map of "Tiger Stripes" (orange) & "Bird's Eye View" (blue) timber sales area
Figure 3: Stripped Peak Trail route (in blue) through "Bird's Eye View" timber sale (outlined in orange)
Figure 4: Large Douglas-fir in "Bird's Eye View" timber sale

Figure 5: Lush and diverse greenery along Striped Peak Trail through “Bird’s Eye View”

Figure 6: Large Douglas-fir in “Tiger Stripes” timber sale area

Figure 7: Old Western Red Cedar in “Tiger Stripes” timber sale

Photos Courtesy of: Scott F. McGee / Forest2sea.com (Figures 1,2,3) & Joshua Wright (Figures 4,5,6,7)
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