Retain Your Right to Improve National Forests
#119 WILD NORTHWEST, March 3, 2005
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====
Retain Your Right to Improve National Forests
Comments needed to ensure full and fair public input and environmental review
Just before Christmas, the Bush administration proposed to limit or "categorically exclude" public input and environmental review when long-term Forest Plans are being revised or changed. These Forest Plans are critically important documents that embody the overarching goals and objectives for our national forests and establish guidelines for how to achieve them. It is imperative that Forest Plans are crafted with input from scientific experts and the interested public so that wilderness, old growth, drinking water, and wildlife habitat are adequately protected.
Comments are due by Monday, March 7. Let the Forest Service know that you support full and fair public participation and environmental review in the planning and management of national forests. Right now, the Colville and Okanogan/Wenatchee National Forests are preparing new plans that will determine how water quality, wildlife habitat, and recreation opportunities are protected from logging, grazing, and mining activities over the next decade. In the future, new plans also will be developed for the Olympic, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, and Gifford Pinchot National Forests. Under the proposed rule, your ideas for these forests could be ignored. The Forest Service would no longer be required to study, disclose, and supply comparative information on a full range of management options to the public as a part of forest planning.
Take a moment to send a personalized email from our action center, http://www.ecosystem.org/action/index.html?MessageTemplateID=2
or
Send written comments directly to
Content Analysis Team, Attn: Planning CE
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 22777
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
email: planningce@fs.fed.us
Fax: 801.517.1015
You'll find additional talking points on the action center page shown above. For a copy of the proposed rule, visit
http://www.fs.fed.us/emc/nfma/includes/rule%20.pdf
Thank you once again for taking time to speak out to keep our national forests wild.
Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====
Retain Your Right to Improve National Forests
Comments needed to ensure full and fair public input and environmental review
Just before Christmas, the Bush administration proposed to limit or "categorically exclude" public input and environmental review when long-term Forest Plans are being revised or changed. These Forest Plans are critically important documents that embody the overarching goals and objectives for our national forests and establish guidelines for how to achieve them. It is imperative that Forest Plans are crafted with input from scientific experts and the interested public so that wilderness, old growth, drinking water, and wildlife habitat are adequately protected.
Comments are due by Monday, March 7. Let the Forest Service know that you support full and fair public participation and environmental review in the planning and management of national forests. Right now, the Colville and Okanogan/Wenatchee National Forests are preparing new plans that will determine how water quality, wildlife habitat, and recreation opportunities are protected from logging, grazing, and mining activities over the next decade. In the future, new plans also will be developed for the Olympic, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, and Gifford Pinchot National Forests. Under the proposed rule, your ideas for these forests could be ignored. The Forest Service would no longer be required to study, disclose, and supply comparative information on a full range of management options to the public as a part of forest planning.
Take a moment to send a personalized email from our action center, http://www.ecosystem.org/action/index.html?MessageTemplateID=2
or
Send written comments directly to
Content Analysis Team, Attn: Planning CE
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 22777
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
email: planningce@fs.fed.us
Fax: 801.517.1015
You'll find additional talking points on the action center page shown above. For a copy of the proposed rule, visit
http://www.fs.fed.us/emc/nfma/includes/rule%20.pdf
Thank you once again for taking time to speak out to keep our national forests wild.
Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24
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