Clear-Cuts and the Risk of Mudslide

Recent mudslides in Northwest Oregon have centered attention on the risks that clear-cut logging poses to soil stability. Take a look at the heavily logged area around Vernonia, OR and the cause of a mudslide in the little town of Woodson.

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[ORWild]

BBdaWolfy-

Almost all of the research that occurred in earnest following the 1996 floods (and subsequent landslides) in the Coast Range showed that clear-cut logging does play a significant factor in landslide probability.

You are right to point out that roads also have an impact by changing natural hydrology. Of course, most roads in our forests are built to accommodate the logging trucks that haul away forests after they have been clear-cut.

[ORWild]

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[coldblue9mm]

@BBdaWolfy If the roads built to access the forest are a major contributing factor in these slides, what's your point? Whether it's the clear cut itself, or the roads used by the folks who clear cut, the fact remains that these both contribute to slides. Or the lack of maintenance to these roads after the logging is done. It really doesn't matter, if they weren't out butchering the forests, these slides wouldn't be occurring. I hope you live below a clear cut.

[BBdaWolfy]

For anyone who is accepting this propaganda as "fact", you need to become familiar with the research performed on the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest east of Eugene Oregon. They have decades of forest research experience that directly points to roads being the culprit for landslides and not the clear cuts themselves.

Please avoid accepting information from professional propogandists such as oregonwild.

[Snurdgerbly]

Those slopes are far too steep to be clear-felled like that. That policy is crazy. Bill Mollison would call WOPR Rigorously Applied Stupidity.

[bigbadbrad95307]

actually it was determined that osu did not cause the slide