Logging on Bitterroot National Forest, Montana

Look across Jennings Camp Creek from a 2003 post-fire logging project on the Bitterroot National Forest to unit 13, an unlogged, old-growth forest. You'll get a good idea of what current post-disturbance logging looks like on the Bitterroot National Forest.

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• logging
• bitterroot
• national
• forest
• montana
• salvage

[MatthewKoehler]

Montanakd: You're wrong in terms of that stand being 60 year old lodgepole. The stand is mainly Doug fir (up to 300 years old) and ponderosa pine (up to 500 years old). You're correct that the clearing I'm standing in to shoot the video is recently burned (2000) and logged. It was logged in 2003 and is an example of type of logging deep within national forests that passes for "restoration" or "fuel reduction" or "community protection."

[rngrchad]

Looks really good. I am happy to see the USFS is using our natural resources to their full potential. Proper forest managment, just like your video shows, is a great way to better our world for our children's children. Someday I hope to get out their and log in the North Cascades. God Bless all those who have brought the forest into our lives so we have a home to live in and storage for our food. Without these forests and loggers, what would we have? Nothing. Thank you for a great video.

[redneckwill077]

i was their on an elk hunt in september 2006..truely an amazing area when you get into the area

[montanakd]

the clearing that he is standing in is a old fire, onr of the few aparently that they allowed a salvege sale on. down in the valey derectly ware he was showing was a stand of logepole that looked to be on the avrage of 60 years old, logepole being a 100 year stand makes that stand ready to log. if it could be logged now it would be able to be logged again in about 5 years and so on and so forth. way better than burned and waiting for another 60 years!