[Kascadia]

Ran across a sign posted by DNR at the intersection of Sec Ln/RR Grade a couple of days ago. The entire upper mountain (above the RR Grade/including Poo Top/upper Preston) will be closed beginning 7/6/21 (Monday) for a private sale logging operation. The duration of the closure was not stated. Stuke also posted about it on WTA along with a pic of the sign/map. Ugh.

[philfort]

I guess maybe there will be a view from the top of Tiger 3 again. Weird how just a small bit of the summit area is Weyerhauser land (from what I can tell).

[Randito]

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/publications/amp_rec_tiger_mountain_basaltamuch_temp_closures.pdf

[Kascadia]

https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report-2021-07-02-1515659751 Just to clarify, "blackened" trails are closed.

[puzzlr]

[Snowdog]

[JimK]

Puzzlr, I'm not sure they will get it back to 1984 levels.

[ChanceShowers]

To be more precise, it's a state forest, not a state park. Those are different things, managed by different state entities (Department of Natural Resources, vs Washington State Parks. And while I don't know the whole history of Tiger Mountain, consider the possibility that it may have all started out as privately owned, and that ownership was willing or convinced to sell off most of the mountain to the state, but chose to retain the topmost portion. In that way, it's not all that odd.

[Randito]

There are multiple radio facilities on the high points of Tiger Mtn. These lie on privately held land. The "Cableline" route follows a buried cable that was installed via bulldozer during the '60s. A hundred years ago the entire mountain was logged -- the various "railroad" trails follow logging railroad railbeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Mountain_(Washington)

[Kascadia]

"While much of Weyerhaeuser’s ownership on Tiger has been exchanged for public ownership, this portion of working forest with existing communications towers has been retained by Weyerhaeuser for decades...................... ................................................... Examples of potential public benefits could include: - Consideration of future trail locations, potential relocations, and improvements. - Vista planning in reforestation and stand management. - Trail building support after harvest use. - Potential sale of harvested land to DNR for permanent conservation. - Alignment with King County and DNR goals for healthy forest management. ........................................ More information on results of these efforts will be available soon. If you have questions or would like to offer feedback to advocacy leaders, please email Lindsay Frickle, Executive Director of Issaquah Alps Trails Club at exec@issaquahalps.org." https://www.issaquahalps.org/articles/2021/7/2/information-on-the-weyerhaeuser-tiger-mountain-harvest

[Malachai Constant]

Last time they logged near the summit of WT1 the removal of the top trees exposed lower trees which promptly fell over and blocked the Preston trail which was not cleared until a year later. So A big loss for winter hiking with training elevation gain. BTW this thread should probably be moved to Stewardship now.

[cascadeclimber]

The trees around the WT3 summit are so small it's very difficult for me to perceive how they have much value. A view is nice, and I enjoyed the view from WT3 25 years ago, and the lack of one there now helps with crowding on the trail, parking, etc. So what's already grown into a problem is now going to get much worse. I don't get how the DNR pops a nut over "environmental damage" supposedly caused by things like the old CL start and the south launch direct route on Poo Poo, then approves tens of acres of scorched-earth clear cutting nearby. In the case of Poo Poo the clear cutting was immediately adjacent and then last year they allowed the entire slope below the south launch to be brush-hogged. But those 100 yard trails were somehow intolerably bad. Insanity.

[philfort]

[Randito]

[treeswarper]