Logging planned near Broken Leg, Crater Notch trails
Swan View Coalition President Keith Hammer examines a slash pile in the Krause Basin near Bigfork. (Mackenzie Reiss/Bigfork Eagle)
Mackenzie Reiss
Page header: Outdoors
Header: Jewel Basin
Headline: Logging planned near Broken Leg, Crater Notch trails
SUbhead: Conservation group concerned with logging practices, tree removal near trails
The Kalispell unit of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is planning a timber sale on 350 acres in the Jewel Basin area to remove blown down and wind damaged timber, beginning as early as October. According to the Aug. 7 scoping notice, the aim of the project is to reduce fire fuels near property boundaries and generate trust revenues for Montana State University and the School for the Deaf and Blind...
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