The Forest Service has proposed the Devil’s Gate timber sale, a large industrial logging project that calls for over 500 acres of clearcutting, an area larger than 125 city blocks, on the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow National Forest. The logging will cut a total of 1,144 acres of forest and build over 9 miles of new roads between the Savage Run and Platte River Wilderness Areas, an important corridor for wildlife movement. The sale will also cost taxpayers over $85,000.

The Snowy Range has already been heavily clearcut and roaded, splintering wildlife habitat, destroying old growth, and threatening sensitive animals like the pine marten, lynx, northern goshawk, even deer and elk, and polluting waters.

Clearcutting is responsible for declines in old growth forest in the Snowy Range. The Devil’s Gate timber sale will only perpetuate these declines, amounting to nothing more than the subsidized destruction of our National Forests. 

You Can Make a Difference!

Instead of the Devil’s Gate timber sale, we need restoration of the forest and sustainable logging.  That means no clearcutting and no new road building. You can help make this happen and make a difference for the Medicine Bow National Forest and our future generations!

Please take a moment to send the Forest Service a letter expressing your concerns over the clearcutting in the Devil’s Gate timber sale. Visit www.voiceforthewild.org/clearcutting/action_clearcutting.html for more information on this damaging practice. Send your letter by July 17th and tell the Forest Service to:

• Adopt a No Clearcutting Alternative to the Devil’s Gate timber sale;
• Build No New Roads through the Devil’s Gate timber sale;
• Protect all sensitive wildlife, including pine marten, northern goshawk, and lynx;
• Provide a healthy forest for future generations by promoting sustainable logging methods, like horse logging or selective logging.

And please, tell the Forest Service any other concerns you have! Your letter can help make a difference and protect the Bow. Thank you!

Send your letter on or before July 17th by mail, fax, or e-mail to:

E-mail: comments-rocky-mountain-medicine-bow-laramie@fs.fed.us

Medicine Bow National Forest  
Attn:  Melissa Martin             
2468 Jackson St.
Laramie, WY 82070
Fax: 307-745-2398