Colville, Okanogan, Weatchee NF plans GET INVOLVED
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Please contact the USFS regarding your feelings about how thier plans for the next 10 -15 years for these areas!
Join the Effort to Revise the Forest Plan!
Many people care deeply about how national forests are managed. Whether you visit them regularly and have intimate knowledge of them, or simply dream about visiting them, you can make a difference in how your national forest is managed for the future.
You are invited to join us as we change the "blue print" that directs management of your National Forests. Currently, a team of Forest Service employees is revising the plans for the Colville, Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests. Your ideas and opinions will be important to updating the plans, which were last completed in 1988, 1989, and 1990 respectively. By law this blueprint, officially known as the Land and Resource Management Plan, is revised every ten to fifteen years.
Plans define how the Forest Service manages the National Forests. Each national forest and grassland in the United States has its own plan which establishes the desired future condition for the land and resources, and sets broad, general direction.
Forest operations must be consistent with Forest Plan standards and guidelines, as well as its goals, objectives, and management requirements, and all relevant overarching laws and regulations. Although management plans identify where and under what conditions an activity or project can proceed, they do not normally make site-specific decisions to undertake particular projects.
Forest Plans make these 6 decisions:
o Establish forest-wide multiple-use goals and objectives.
o Establish the forest-wide management requirements for implementing projects under the plan.
o Determine the boundaries of management areas and prescribe the activities that may be applied in them.
o Identify land suitable for producing timber and establishes how much timber the Forest Service is allowed to sell from lands suited for timber production.
o Establish what the Forest Service must do to monitor and evaluate management activities and effectiveness.
o Evaluate and determine whether roadless areas should be recommended as part of the National Wilderness Preservation system, and address which rivers and streams be recommended for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
Much has changed in our world and in the management of the national forests since the late 1980s and early ‘90s. Ecological conditions have changed, public expectations are different, and new laws and regulations have been implemented since the plans were originally created. These changes need to be reflected in the new forest plans.
Rather than making sweeping change, Forest Service planners expect to build on the existing forest plans and make changes only as necessary.
The Forest Plan Revision effort is expected to be completed by March, 2006 so there’s plenty of time for you to join us and not get left behind! Some public meetings have already been held, and more will be planned as new information is available. Besides public meetings, you can also participate anytime by writing us via U.S. Mail, e-mailing us your comments, or by giving us a call on the phone. For more information on Forest Plan Revision, you may also access our web site.
E-mail: r6_ewzplanrevision@fs.fed.us
Web site: www.fs.fed.us/r6/colville/cow
Mailing Address: Forest Plan Revision Team
Colville, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests,
Okanogan Valley Office
1240 Second Avenue South
Okanogan, WA 98840
Join the Effort to Revise the Forest Plan!
Many people care deeply about how national forests are managed. Whether you visit them regularly and have intimate knowledge of them, or simply dream about visiting them, you can make a difference in how your national forest is managed for the future.
You are invited to join us as we change the "blue print" that directs management of your National Forests. Currently, a team of Forest Service employees is revising the plans for the Colville, Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests. Your ideas and opinions will be important to updating the plans, which were last completed in 1988, 1989, and 1990 respectively. By law this blueprint, officially known as the Land and Resource Management Plan, is revised every ten to fifteen years.
Plans define how the Forest Service manages the National Forests. Each national forest and grassland in the United States has its own plan which establishes the desired future condition for the land and resources, and sets broad, general direction.
Forest operations must be consistent with Forest Plan standards and guidelines, as well as its goals, objectives, and management requirements, and all relevant overarching laws and regulations. Although management plans identify where and under what conditions an activity or project can proceed, they do not normally make site-specific decisions to undertake particular projects.
Forest Plans make these 6 decisions:
o Establish forest-wide multiple-use goals and objectives.
o Establish the forest-wide management requirements for implementing projects under the plan.
o Determine the boundaries of management areas and prescribe the activities that may be applied in them.
o Identify land suitable for producing timber and establishes how much timber the Forest Service is allowed to sell from lands suited for timber production.
o Establish what the Forest Service must do to monitor and evaluate management activities and effectiveness.
o Evaluate and determine whether roadless areas should be recommended as part of the National Wilderness Preservation system, and address which rivers and streams be recommended for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
Much has changed in our world and in the management of the national forests since the late 1980s and early ‘90s. Ecological conditions have changed, public expectations are different, and new laws and regulations have been implemented since the plans were originally created. These changes need to be reflected in the new forest plans.
Rather than making sweeping change, Forest Service planners expect to build on the existing forest plans and make changes only as necessary.
The Forest Plan Revision effort is expected to be completed by March, 2006 so there’s plenty of time for you to join us and not get left behind! Some public meetings have already been held, and more will be planned as new information is available. Besides public meetings, you can also participate anytime by writing us via U.S. Mail, e-mailing us your comments, or by giving us a call on the phone. For more information on Forest Plan Revision, you may also access our web site.
E-mail: r6_ewzplanrevision@fs.fed.us
Web site: www.fs.fed.us/r6/colville/cow
Mailing Address: Forest Plan Revision Team
Colville, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests,
Okanogan Valley Office
1240 Second Avenue South
Okanogan, WA 98840
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[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] On another related front
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June 7, 2004
Group Wants Ban On Forest Road Closures
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KALISPELL - Montanans for Multiple Use has asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to ban the U.S. Forest Service from implementing road and trail closures.
The group said its requested preliminary injunction is necessary because of an approaching fire season that will expose the public to a substantial health and safety risk.
It also said the Forest Service continues to implement a "continuous stream" of forest plan amendments across the country aimed at closing forest roads and trails.
"The elimination of roads and other actions in the amendments have culminated in increased fire hazards, increased probability of catastrophic fires, increased firefighting costs, increased risk and probability of damage to natural resources, loss of critical timber industry jobs and infrastructure, and loss of private property and human lives," MMU president Fred Hodgeboom said.
In a lawsuit filed last year against the Flathead National Forest, the same group and 13 other plaintiffs contended that forest plan amendments approved in recent years are unlawful because they implement significant management policies that should be addressed through complete forest plan revisions.
Current forest plans were adopted in the mid-1980s. By law, they should have been revised several years ago, Hodgeboom said, but most national forests are only beginning lengthy revision processes.
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June 7, 2004
Group Wants Ban On Forest Road Closures
Associated Press
KALISPELL - Montanans for Multiple Use has asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to ban the U.S. Forest Service from implementing road and trail closures.
The group said its requested preliminary injunction is necessary because of an approaching fire season that will expose the public to a substantial health and safety risk.
It also said the Forest Service continues to implement a "continuous stream" of forest plan amendments across the country aimed at closing forest roads and trails.
"The elimination of roads and other actions in the amendments have culminated in increased fire hazards, increased probability of catastrophic fires, increased firefighting costs, increased risk and probability of damage to natural resources, loss of critical timber industry jobs and infrastructure, and loss of private property and human lives," MMU president Fred Hodgeboom said.
In a lawsuit filed last year against the Flathead National Forest, the same group and 13 other plaintiffs contended that forest plan amendments approved in recent years are unlawful because they implement significant management policies that should be addressed through complete forest plan revisions.
Current forest plans were adopted in the mid-1980s. By law, they should have been revised several years ago, Hodgeboom said, but most national forests are only beginning lengthy revision processes.
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