Forest Service releases plan to remove 80% of Cuddy Valley trees with commercial logging and without full public review

By Marcy Axness and Patric Hedlund, TME

Los Padres National Forest announced in a Nov. 28 press release that “the Mt. Pinos Ranger District has completed environmental review of the Cuddy Valley Forest Health and Fuels Reduction project,” and that LPNF Supervisor Kevin Elliott “signed the Decision Memo on Nov. 13.”

The Mountain Enterprise has requested the actual underlying research to support the drastic reduction in forest density propsed by the…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Idyllic Cuddy Valley is nestled between forested hillsides. Plans appear to be moving forward rapidly for Los Padres National Forest to remove up to 80% of these trees with no public environmental review process.

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This is part of the December 7, 2018 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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