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Help Protect Wildlife Habitat and Water Quality on our National Forests
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    1. C/O Bear West Company (Forest Service Planning NOI)
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    Center for Native Ecosystems
About this Petition Petition Letter
Why This Is Important

The U.S. Forest Service is currently developing new regulations that will affect their management plan for each national forest and grassland across the country. We have the opportunity to ensure that these regulations contain strong protections for wildlife habitat, water quality, and soils. Please send the below letter to the consulting firm that is helping direct Forest Service planning efforts.  Please also customize the letter with the particular National Forests you visit, the specific activities you like to do there, and anything else you'd like to add. Thanks!

 

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Forest Service Planning NOI

Dear Bear West Company,

Protective management of our National Forests and Grasslands is important to me. I enjoy the solitude and beauty of our national forests, as well as the opportunity for quiet recreation, wildlife habitat, and water quality provided by these lands. The soon-to-be revised forest service planning regulations must require that the viability of all native wildlife and plant populations be assured through forest planning. The regulations must also require plans to contain clear standards which would ensure protection of resources and limit activities that would degrade air, water, soils, wildlife habitat, etc.

The revised regulations must require national forests to zone areas of each national forest or grassland by what type of activities will be allowed. Without this, the public has little idea of what management will be emphasized and how resources will be protected. Further, plans must be required to address and be able to adapt to the possible effects of climate change. Management should err on the side of protecting resources by limiting logging, road construction, etc. so that wildlife and plants will be more likely to survive a warming climate.

Finally, the impacts of every proposed forest management plan must be disclosed in an environmental impact statement. Since plans approve a program of management for the next 10-15 years, the impacts of such activities must be disclosed.

Sincerely,

[Your name]