Jackson Forest Forum

Notes on a Meeting of the Landscape Committee of the Jackson Advisory Group, February 4, 2009 Introduction This is the second in a related series of documents on applying the concept of “Natural Forestry” at Jackson State Forest. The concept is introduced and defined in Part 1. The key idea behind Natural Forestry is simultaneously [...]

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Recently the concept of “Natural Forestry” as a management strategy for Jackson State Forest has gained prominence in discussions of the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG), the independent advisory group charged with developing recommendations for long-term management of the forest. Mike Jani, co-chair of the Landscape Committee of the JAG coined the term and gave a [...]

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Introduction The Jackson Advisory Group (JAG) was appointed by the Director of Cal Fire and the Board of Forestry and given as its primary task the development of a long-term management plan for Jackson State Forest. The JAG began meeting in mid-2008. Ever since it has been grappling with the question of how much of [...]

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On January 5, 2009, members of the Jackson Advisory Group visited Brandon Gulch to review a “trial mark.” The trial mark is an initial marking of trees to reflect the guidelines for a harvest intended to create late seral (old growth) characteristics in the Brandon Gulch stands. T he late seral harvest plan differs greatly [...]

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In 2000, the Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest filed suit to halt logging in Jackson State Forest. Over the next eight years, legal actions or the threat of legal actions compelled the Department of Forestry (formerly abbreviated as CDF, now Cal Fire) to refrain from any logging and to develop a new management [...]

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