Ah my bad. I was told by one of my professors that clearcuts generally don’t exceed 15 acres, but I guess that’s more of a practice than an enforcement.

There’s a lot of information they are leaving out. The forest service isn’t going to clearcut 11,000 acres, rather they want permission to survey the area to see if it is suitable for the prescription. It is against state law to clearcut over 15 continuous acres, so the reality will likely be a sort of patch-work layout similar to what’s happening in the NEK’s wildlife refuge.

Also worth to note that the said wildlife refuge, while also being public land, had no reaction like this to it’s clearcuts. I don’t think the idea of preserving public land is a terrible idea, though there seems to be a lot of bias to what areas are being targeted for preservation and what information this organization is presenting.