Protect Pipe Fork

The Pipe Fork Creek and its surrounding habitat is a wild verdant green area of Port Orford cedar, ferns and wildlife, a wonderful place to take a walk in. The loss to Williams of the clear, clean water that the Pipe Fork Creek provides will be significant to the organic farms, drinking water and fish habitat. The Pipe Fork Creek is so amazingly beautiful that it was nominated for a Wild and Scenic stream designation.

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Letters to the Josephine County commissioners and forester are important to demonstrate your concerns. Use the form below to sign your petition and have it emailed directly to the commissioners.

Save Pipe Fork Petition Letter

Dear Josephine County Commissioners,

I am concerned that the planned clearcut in the Pipe Fork Creek area will cause damage to a rare habitat and request that a forest management which values the ecosystem be put in place.

Pipe Fork Creek flows from the northeast flank of Grayback Mountain into Williams Creek with cool, clear water providing habitat for three major salmon runs and a variety of other aquatic fauna and flora. Josephine County owns a major part of this watershed and is planning a clearcut.

Pipe Fork Creek area is a unique landscape with steep canyons, springs, and native forest. This is an area that is wild and untouched and is located within BLM’s Resource Management Areas because of its unique character and variety of species of trees and wildlife.

Steelhead salmon swim up into this habitat for spawning and rearing. The stream has falls and glides with pools and gravel bars that provide vital habitat for returning fish. Pipe Fork is essentially the headwaters of East Fork Williams Creek which provides habitat for Coho, Chinook, and steelhead salmon as well as lamprey, salamanders, and a host of aquatic macro-invertebrates that play a major role in the health of a stream.

Logging roads and clearcutting is a major source of excess fine sediment in streams. Erosion from roads can carry fine silt and clay that fill the gravels and pools where salmon lay their eggs, juvenile salmon use for rearing, and aquatic insects thrive. Logging equipment can spread disease that kills Port Orford cedar and the dead and dying cedars are already obvious along the Pipe Fork Creek. Sediment will carry it downstream to other locations and kill more trees.

The Pipe Fork Creek and forests are important for the salmon, clean air and water that the forest provides. An intact forest with a diversity of plants and fire resistant trees decreases catastrophic wild fire and flooding.

Please use your knowledge and effective leadership to protect the Pipe Fork Creek and Forest.

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OR you can download the letter and send it to the commissioners and forester by mail or email.

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The address for the Jo County Commissioners and Forester is:

Josephine County Forestry Program Director
Dave Streeter
500 NW 6th St, Dept 8, Grants Pass, OR 97526
Phone: (541) 474-5291

Commissioners emails:
Darin Fowler
E-mail address: dfowler@josephinecounty.gov

Dan DeYoung
E-mail address: ddeyoung@josephinecounty.gov

Lilly Morgan
E-mail address: lmorgan@josephinecounty.gov

Also, take a walk in the fresh air that the trees provide to keep your immune system strong.

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