Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

Last summer, residents of Gardiner and Jardine, Montana, heard through the grapevine that a large-scale logging project might be coming to their doorstep on the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park. What’s since been proposed, though, is larger than they ever could have imagined.

It would entail 4,401 acres of logging and thinning, including 2,126 acres of commercial logging — with 824 acres of that clear-cut — as well as prescribed fire operations in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. The project would span four creek drainages and authorize the construction of 7 miles of new roads.

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