Clear-Cutting Planned on Strawberry Rock Trail

From Trinidad Forest Forum Blog
March 28, 2011



A timber company’s plan to clear-cut near a look-out spot north of Trinidad known as Strawberry Rock has spawned a new blog. The blog was created by the Trinidad Forest Forum and “is intended to serve as a forum for information about the proposed clear-cuts near Strawberry Rock".

Green Diamond, owners of around 400,000 acres of forest in the northern Redwood belt, plans to log at least one rare pocket of century old Redwoods near Strawberry Rock in Trinidad, California. The proposed clear-cut would decimate the forest and bury the main trail to Strawberry Rock in tangled debris. Other areas of forest would be clear-cut in the area surrounding of the popular megalith.

This logging plan (THP 1-10-137 HUM) includes 84 acres of clear-cutting and 25.5 acres of "selection" logging. The main trail up to Strawberry Rock passes through a grove with trees over 100 years old, this is marked on the maps as "Unit E". 18 acres are slated for clear-cutting in that patch. 6.5 is marked for selection. There are very few trees left in the Trinidad area even close to 100 years old. The forest on the west facing slopes and terraces uphill from Trinidad was mostly clear-cut in the early 1900's and later burned in a huge fire in 1945. It was then logged again, the timber company (companies?) took most of the remaining big trees. Green Diamond aims to take some of the very few that remain, a grove that holds significance for many people who visit the rock and the forest.

For more information visit the Trinidad Forest Forum Blog or THP Tracking Center website.