The deep, quiet valley of Beatty Creek is one of the few wild valleys home to big trees and diverse, natural legacy forest left in the Capitol Hills. Here can be found a vibrant, native ecosystem largely untouched in over a century, with large remnant old growth trees that stood watch over the landscape long before Europeans set foot in the Pacific Northwest. Sadly, this beautiful forest is in imminent danger, as the Washington Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) has put most of the irreplaceable forest here on the chopping block. The Smuggler and Oracle timber sales should be canceled, and the forest granted the permanent protection it deserves.
It is vital that we work to protect Beatty Creek and our other precious few other remaining legacy forests on our public lands here in Washington. They will quickly vanish forever if we don't act now to protect them.
Let the DNR, Commissioner Hilary Franz, and our elected representatives know that our legacy forests must be protected:
Contact:
Hilary Franz
Comissioner of Public Lands
360-902-1000
cpl@dnr.wa.gov
Angus Brodie
Deputy Supervisor for State Uplands
360-902-2122
angus.brodie@dnr.wa.gov
DNR South Puget Sound Region
360-825-1631
southpuget.region@dnr.wa.gov
For more information on legacy forests and our fight to save them, visit: https://www.c4rf.org/
