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Sequoia National Forest Releases FEIS for Travel Management
The Sequoia National Forest, located in central California, has announced the release of their Motorized Travel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for public review and comment. The Forest Service (FS) will be accepting comments on the FEIS during a 30-day comment period. The FEIS, maps and all supporting documents are available on the Sequoia […]
Travel Management DEIS Released for Central Oregon Forest
Travel Management DEIS Released for Central Oregon Forest The Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Crooked River National Grassland, located in central and northeastern Oregon, have released their Travel Management Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for public review. The Forest Service (FS) will be accepting comments on the DEIS during a 45-day comment […]
Forest Service to permanently close Upper Tellico Off-Highway Vehicle trail system
MURPHY — The U.S. Forest Service announced today that it is permanently closing the Upper Tellico Off-Highway Vehicle trail system to correct serious erosion problems in the Upper Tellico River watershed. The agency announced its decision after two years of analysis of the 39-mile trail system about 11 miles west of Murphy in the Nantahala […]
Role of BLM employees questioned in federal investigation
Very interesting article about possible questionable behavior by BLM employees and Anti -access groups…..Shawn Investigators with the U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) say in a report that they found alleged wrongdoing in the relationships between certain National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) employees of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and anti-access groups, […]
Mt. Hood National Forest Seeks Comments on Motorized Travel Plan DEIS
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber, Mt. Hood National Forest Seeks Comments on Motorized Travel Plan DEIS The Mt. Hood National Forests — located in northwest Oregon — released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for their Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Management Plan, including Forest Plan Amendment #17. The Forest Service (FS) is asking for your […]
CRITICAL – CLEARWATER NF TRAVEL PLAN (Idaho) – COMMENTS NEEDED NOW!
“If people don’t respond to these plans, then they really don’t have the right to complain when the decision is made.” IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM BRC: Yesterday I received a note from a person who works in a land managing agency. I won’t mention their name. The person emailed me about the final plan for the […]
COLORADO ROADLESS COMMENTS NEEDED – DEADLINE OCTOBER 3, 2009
COLORADO ROADLESS COMMENTS NEEDED – DEADLINE OCTOBER 3, 2009 SITUATION: New regulations formulated during the Bush Administration allow each State to help formulate management rules for the Inventoried Roadless Areas on National Forest lands within that state. Eager to put an end to the long-running controversy, as well as protect the public from insect outbreak […]
Tester Wilderness Bill: Example of how broken public land management is today
-by Brian Hawthorne, BlueRibbon Coalition Jon Tester, a U.S. Senator from Montana, is holding meetings on legislation he calls the “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.” It’s a Wilderness bill dressed up as a compromise between preservation, forest health and recreation. The stated purpose of which is: To sustain the economic development and recreational use of […]
Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands Seeks Comments on Travel Plan DEIS
The Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, located in central and western Nebraska and central and western South Dakota, released their Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for designation of a motorized travel access system on September 25, 2009. The Forest Service (FS) is asking for your input during a 45-day public review and comment period, which […]
U.S. House subcommittee to consider banning riding on 9.4 million acres in UTAH
Please take action on this quickly as it is very important and could set further precedence, Shawn In a surprise move, the chairman of a U.S. House subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for next week on a proposal that would ban off-highway motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), and bicycles from more than 9 million acres of […]