The Mattole Forest Futures Project is an approach to forest management that gives landowners streamlined approval for their logging plans, provided their harvest meets significant light-touch standards.
* January 2012 update *The first three plans have been filed to harvest timber as part of the Mattole Forest Futures Project, under the Council's newly approved Program Timberland Environmental Impact Report (PTEIR):
Plan 1-11-100-HUM-PTHP: 67 acres of selective harvest on Wilder Ridge - approved by Calfire Dec. 27,
Plan 1-11-116-HUM-PTHP: 61 acres of selection, commercial thinning, and all-age harvest near Whitethorn, &
Plan 1-11-123-HUM-PTHP: 30 acres of selective harvest, also near Whitethorn.
These can all be downloaded from the
Calfire harvest plan library.
The kinds of selective harvest contemplated as part of the Mattole Forest Futures Project will support the recovery of the Mattole watershed in four important ways: