weyehauser drives me nuts

[funkster]

  But what burns me is all the public land they control access to that also gets shut down.  Landlocked state and Forest Service.  These agencies need to get real easements to their OUR land.  Just in the St. Helens tree farm I can think of 50,000 acres of PUBLIC land the Weyco. controls access to.
35,000 acres DNR Toutle block
7,000 acres St. Helens Wildlife area (lucky to get a mudflow tag-hope you can get there)
Most of the west border side of Forest Service land including several trailheads.

Why are we paying for the WDFW to set up year-by-year "cooperative" access agreements, when we really need easements that last forever.

 

[PolarBear]

Weyco is great to early season hunters, if you work for them.   

[bobcat]

Will employees still get to drive in and hunt in the Pe Ell tree farm?

Does anyone know?

[PolarBear]

More than likely.  I know several loggers for Weyco who have gotten their bucks or bulls during a fire closure.  They were in there to "service" or "move" equipment and just happen to have a bow with them.  I guess there are perks to some jobs, eh?

[BigGoonTuna]

Im just outside of aberdeen...they red dotted all their land today...walk in access only.....all the area around here is private timber co.....i think the closest state land that i can think of is out past menlo and i cant afflord to drive that far everyday or i would....so biking in it is

i catch a lot of crap from the eastsiders when i bitch about timber company land access issues.  none of them have obviously lived in grays harbor!  millions of acres out here, the majority of it is locked up, and that also blocks off access to tons of state and county land that's behind it.  at least with normal property owners, you can go knock on doors.  not so with the corporate land barons...

[fireweed]

Im walking into my huntin spot now and got passed by a service truck and 2 log trucks...guess they cant cause sparks or the machines there going to run 

The DNR has a system called "industrial fire precaution level" that loggers follow. it ranges from 1 (no restriction) to 4 total shutdown/no logging.   But the companies do not tie their "fire closures" for the public to this system.  That's why for hunters it can be closed, while chain saws and log trucks still work.  Getting companies to tie their total public closures to the DNR system (level 4) would be a good start, and it would be consistent, and justified.