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Don't Let the Administration Overhaul the NEPA Process on OUR National Forests. Make Your Voice Heard by August 12.

7/18/2019

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The Forest Service is proposing to eliminate public participation and science-based analysis for nearly every decision affecting national forests, from timber sales to road construction to pipeline rights of way. If the proposal moves forward, the public won’t receive notice or a chance to object to specific projects in the future.

The Forest Service is required by law to take public comments on this proposal, but if we don’t speak up now, it could be our last chance. ​

Public participation is essential for good decisions affecting public lands. When the Forest Service considers allowing logging, road-building, mining, or fracking on our national forests, it must balance those uses with impacts to wildlife, clean water, backcountry areas, recreation on rivers and trails. That balancing act is impossible without listening to the people who would be affected by its decisions.

Our friends at the Southern Environmental Law Center have developed a digital resource at OurForestsOurVoice.org  that allows members of the public to easily generate and submit comments on the docket, at Regulation.gov, opposing the Forest Service’s proposed NEPA rule rewrite.  

Make your voice be heard by visiting OurForestsOurVoice.org by August 12. 
1 Comment
christine van wandelen
8/9/2019 09:05:22 am

Citizens should be heard on the use of public lands, for they ARE the public. Science, not profit by companies, should determine what goes on. Trees give life through changing carbon dioxide to oxygen, so they deserve our respect.. Public lands are for PUBLIC, not private use. I want the public to be heard!!

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