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ALERT - December 4, 2006: Protect Our Woods joins allies to submit a response to the Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the German Ridge Restoration Project in Hoosier National Forest25. Pine Plantations Have Ecological FunctionsThe HNF Plan and EIS, as well as the German Ridge FEIS/DSFEI brush aside the ecological value of the pine plantations on the HoosierInstead, they seem to be assuming that the pines are bad for everything. In spite of the fact that endangered Indiana bats have been found on the Hoosier roosting in pine plantations, they make the finding that cutting the pines down would be beneficial to the Indiana bat.(See more on this under Section 20. IndianaBat). Although many neotropical migratory forest interior birds have been found utilizing the pine plantations, the Forest Service continues to rely on out of date findings that the pine plantations somehow fragment the forest. The Forest Service even mentions pines and pastures together as “nonnative species” that fragment the forest. “Presently, nonnative pine stands fragment the hardwood forest.” (p. 15 DSFEIS) “These areas of nonnative species, whether pine or pasture, continue to fragment the forest.” (p. 25 DSFEIS) Click here for Part 26. Deer Impacts NeglectedProtect Our Woods
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