|
page 1 |
|
dolog |
|
. |
|
…………… |
|
Page10 |
|
Logging of Beaver Lakes area
|
|
Drive 6 and 7 miles west of Whitefish on the East side on US 93 and you’re in the Flathead National Forest or the Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor Today I get a notice letter they want to log, Burn Thin, in other words destroy what's left the natural beaver lake woods because of fire concerns..... some surrounding homeowners ( we call Wood Ticks they want to burrow deep into the woods) Then want taxpayers to dig them out of the snow, oil there road, supply fire control, patrol, supply immunities, poison their weeds...any way they say there afraid of fire now, THEY BOUGHT and built IN THE WOODS ! so log off the adjacent timber dispose of the wildlife and park out the land to an unnatural GROVE so the natural wildlife will move on to survive OR GET SHOT OUT! ...but there's now more room for them to go ! 2011 Beaver Lake its logged and inundated with Dogs, Bikes and biodegradable toilet paper? Spencer Lake ? Its being Logged also by Montana State , Stillwater river bottom ? Its cleared and subdivide. We got to leave natural Forest for the wildlife also and especially here because it’s the corridor they choose to flow through and into the two Grizzly Bear Recovery Core areas. |
|
. |
|
. |
|
Page 10 Dec 21, 2012 |
|
The mature and muilti-aged, successional stages of forest here is full of wildlife, Cougar, Bear Elk and Deer feeding at night in fields, river bottoms, 1/2 mile away and parked out, logged forests is already surrounding this. What's left of his 960 acres is vital to the migration, sanctuary and day time bedding areas for wild wildlife... Only the tame critters are in our yards and the highway ditch. They put in bike trails system to Murray Lake and I seen-counted 3 deer a trip to the lake at best in 2011 where as in 2010 we counted 22 in a drive for our best count. Indigenous species Eagles, Owls, Martin Bear, Moose, Lions, Lynx, Fisher, Wolverine, Mink, Martin and also Grizzly, Wolf are spotted and trapped occasionally here. In winter the animals use the south westerly slopes with doug fir to feed and shelter. Deer, Lion, Lynx travel use the river bottoms in winter and when dogs pressure them they use the thick forest mountain to escape. When Spencer Lake Mountain is logger off and gone where will they go? Sensitive Species-Species of Concern: Eagles, Lynx, Fammulated Owl, Black Back and Pileated Woodpeckers, Fisher, Pine Martin, Peregrine Falcon, and Great Grey Owl. There's two places you cant see natural wildlife activity in this area, Round Meadows x-country trails and now Beaver Lake Bike Trails ...keep up the good work. The more you open up the backwoods the more the wildlife leave! |
|
..................... |
|
................ |
|
I have nothing against people trying to save there forests, lives and homes from possible forest fire. I do feel someone needs to stand up for wildlife Aren't Wildlife part of the Forest? Where's the Montana State Biologist, that's right who helped wiped out the Kokanee Salmon from the Lake ? Never mind ... Any way...Wildlife is being pushed out and have to die ? Because where do you think they will go ? THEY WENT HERE!!! There's no winter range left, the Stillwater River bottoms is Logged, Parked Out, Subdivided to Farms, hobby Ranches, barbed wire, dogs and kids with guns... The resources are already maxed out and limited, What's left for them? Where is left for them? Can we start here ?
Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor The only flathead valley crossing? When will it be we wish we would of said enough for this area? The all mighty dollar is master, subdivide, sell, park out sell again, do it again. This valley reminds me of Christmas, Commercialized. Have we lost site of what's important. Man has civilized this valley for a hundred years and this is a island of natural forest cluttered with windfall, beetle kill, some old, some new, but the wildlife like that way. Not the way a gardener thinks it should be. This is Vital Prime, Corridor for all wildlife to cross the Stillwater River and Valley. Pleas slow down and you will see the importance of proceeding slowly until you study the flow from Swift creek to Stillwater River . |
|
. |
|
Please look at this northern Flathead mountainous natural bridge called Beaver Lake and Mountains. The migrating wildlife coming down from the North Fork-Swift Creek-Glacier Park area skirt around Whitefish Lake naturally moving southerly-Down hill, they try to keep into the forest canopy to travel. If they can get across a 400 yard field (ours) and the highway they can make it to the Salish Mountains, and onto the Cabinet, Kootenai areas. Please reconsider over cleaning this 960 acres. |
|
I haven't studied this well yet but I know the forest is thick and due for fuels management ...but with that said I think some special procedures need be used to make this a safe area for migration and what is left of the indigenous wildlife. I would like to meet with the biologist to show them what I found about the local, indigenous, and migrating, and sensitive species, and the species of concern.
|
|
. |
|
Yes its brushy But today that's what wildlife need to survive in the middle of suburban sprawl |
|
Salish Mountain Wildlife Corridor |
|
click |
|
. |
|
Home Page |
|
Here is what you left us with in 2010 beaver lake north |
|
Here is what you left us with in 2010 beaver lake north |
|
Here is what you left us with in 2010 beaver lake north |
|
That’s the mountain you want to do the same to |
|
Beaver Lake Area |
|
Dollar Lake |
|
I believe this allows the predators easy access to taking of big game, the wildlife thrived and clings to the brushy canopy and windfalls for protection, when its thinned the wolves, bear, cougar and coyotes have easer success to chase, with greater speed using line of site, a shortcut more open environment. With the thick brush in place the predator has to work harder, wildlife know this we don't or don't care? |
|
Beaver Lake |
|
Woods Lake |
|
Small Beaver Lake |
|
Murray Lake |
