[Fwd: Emails Needed for Forest Service Roadless Areas]

[Ted Kegebein]

Joseph Zorzin wrote:
> 
> Forwarding this.
> 
> --
> Joe  Zorzin
> Massachusetts Licensed Forester #261
> http://forestmeister.com
> 
> Member of Forest Steward's Guild
> http://www.foreststewardsguild.com/
> 
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> Subject: Emails Needed for Forest Service Roadless Areas
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:20:43 -0700
> From: AlertList at suwa.org
> To: AlertList at suwa.org
> 
> Folks -
> 
> Letting the Clinton Administration know about Hansen's bad Utah
> wilderness bill remains our highest priority.  (See previous alerts or
> http://www.suwa.org/alerts/99dec07.html)  You're calls and letters are
> making a difference -- we've definitely gotten the administration's
> attention over the last few days.  But we need to keep up the pressure
> so that they will take action.  If you haven't called or written yet,
> please do so now and ask your friends to do the same.  (See above web
> page for details.)
> 
> In the meantime, the Forest Service is accepting comments (due next
> week) VIA EMAIL for their very important roadless area initiative.  Read
> on...
> 
> FOREST SERVICE ROADLESS AREA PROTECTION
> 
> In October the Clinton Administration directed the Forest Service to
> study how to protect the remaining roadless areas contained within
> America's 155 National Forests.  On October 19 the Forest Service
> published a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the federal Register asking for
> public input regarding the Clinton Initiative for National Forest
> Roadless Areas.
> 
> The proposed action is divided into two parts.  According to the NOI
> part one would "immediately restrict certain activities, such as road
> construction, in unroaded portions of inventoried roadless areas, as
> previously identified in RARE II (Roadless Area Review and Evaluation)
> and existing forest plan inventories."  Part two of the proposal "would
> establish national direction for managing inventoried roadless areas,
> and for determining whether and to what extent similar protections
> should be extended to uninventoried roadless areas."  In Utah this could
> lead to some degree of administrative protection for MORE THAN 3 MILLION
> ACRES OF ROADLESS LANDS.
> 
> This is our big chance to get remaining roadless areas on forest lands
> protected!  Important points to make in comments concerning the roadless
> policy include:
> 
> * Roadless areas should be defined as 1,000 acres and larger, not 5,000
> acres and larger.
> 
> * Areas as small as 1,000 acres are important to impede fragmentation
> and to allow access for sensitive wildlife.
> 
> * All roadless areas of 1,000 acres or larger should be protected under
> part one of the proposal.  This means that all logging (not just
> commercial logging), road construction and reconstruction, off-road
> vehicle use, oil and gas development and mining should be prohibited in
> all remaining roadless areas.

Why not call every 10 acres without a road a "roadless area"?


> * Fire suppression should not be permitted in roadless areas, except to
> protect imperiled species or human life
> 
> * Livestock grazing should not be permitted in roadless areas.
> 
> * Areas discovered to be roadless in future inventories, including
> inventories conducted by concerned citizens, should be protected under
> this proposal.  Protection should not be limited to only those areas
> already inventoried by the USFS.  This is important for the protection
> of many areas in southern Utah such as Elk Ridge and Maverick Point in
> Manti-La Sal National Forest and Boulder Mountain in the Dixie National
> Forest.
> 
> Mail your comments to:
> 
>    USDA Forest Service CAET
>    Attention: Roadless Areas NOI
>    PO Box 221090
>    Salt Lake City, UT  84122
> 
> email to: mailto:roadless/wo_caet-slc at fs.fed.us (yes, that email address
> is "roadless/wo_caet-slc at fs.fed.us")
> 
> fax to: 801-517-1021
> 
> The official deadline for comments is Monday, December 20 1999.  But
> comments received after that date are still useful and will be taken
> into consideration by the Forest Service.
> 
> More information can be found at:
> 
>    http://roadless.fs.fed.us/  (official Forest Service site)
> 
>    http://www.ourforests.org/information/hfcbasic.htm (Heritage Forests
>    Campaign)
> 
>    http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/comments.htm (American Lands)
> 
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