Oregon: Beetle kill planning for 7000 acres in Fremont-Winena NF

Surveying potential buyers for the best way to market and sell about
7,000 acres of dead or dying trees in the Fremont-Winema National
Forests in southern Oregon. The outreach is a part of the Red Zone
Safety Project to remove dead and dying trees from 25 recreational
sites and within 150 feet of each side of almost 200 miles of
well-traveled roads.

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The responses from more than 500 potential buyers will help officials
prepare and offer for sale the first portions of the Red Zone Safety
Project this year, said Kevin Moore, Timber Program Manager.

The trees are victims of the mountain pine beetle epidemic, and many may be
suited only for use as firewood, biomass material or clean chips for
pulp or hardboard manufacturing.

Most are lodgepole pine that have been dead up to seven years. Some trees, including the green tree thinning areas, may fit conventional sawlog use. The project includes green trees that would be thinned to promote forest health.

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