Abstract
A windstorm in the Columbia River Gorge in 1983 downed 5,770 acres of timber in the Bull Run watershed (Figure 1). Salvaging this timber reignited the conflict among the city of Portland, environmentalists, the U.S. Forest Service, and the timber industry regarding Bull Run management. Since the selection of Bull Run in the 1880s as Portland, Oregon's municipal water supply, there has been controversy over its management. Water quality concerns led to the 1904 Bull Run Trespass Act (P.L. 206), which forbade any entry into the watershed except to protect the water supply. The U.S. Forest Service initiated large-scale timber harvesting in the 1950s in Bull Run, declaring that by removing old growth timber they were decreasing the possibility of disastrous fires. Environmental groups sued, claiming the Forest Service was violating the Trespass Act. The Portland Federal District Court agreed and closed the watershed to logging.
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