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Visit the BlueRibbon Coalition Website to find out where Travel Management Rule is affecting your Forest (click on Public Lands). June 2008, the Final EIS has been appealed and it now in Region for review.
These are suggestions to save you time and help you get on what I believe to be the right sheet of music, and how BlueRibbon Coalition believes we should proceed at this point. First off, I will give you a link below to my tips on how to write a letter. Second, I will give you the three main things you need to write about. Third, I'll let you know what to do next. NOTE: Jan. 2008, BlueRibbon won a huge appeal on the Six Rivers National Forest regarding roads/trails in Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRA's), reversing a decision to close about 14 miles of roads that we use. Read the press release here as well as the decision win!
If you're looking for help with general Route Designation stuff in CA, go here. |
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Dear Jason Nedlo, EIS Team Leader, and Ramiro Villavazo, Forest Supervisor: I am disappointed with the direction the Eldorado National Forest has taken in this travel management planning process. To that end, I support and ask you to act in accordance with the August 2, 2007 request of the BlueRibbon Coalition to “withdraw the current DEIS and associated public comment period and conduct supplemental analysis and issue a supplemental EIS (SEIS) and seek input on additional alternatives to those presented in the DEIS” for the reasons cited in the BlueRibbon Coalition letter. At the same time, I submit these additional comments to ensure my standing in the NEPA process and ask that you include them in the record and keep me informed on any futher planning and decisions regarding Travel Management Planning on the Eldorado National Forest. My additional comments are as follows: 1. It is my observation the current DEIS is not a listing of alternatives, but merely a ranking of the degrees of closure you are attempting to implement. I officially request you to develop Alternative R, as you call it, into a full fledged, stand-alone Alternative. This is known as the BlueRibbon Coalition Alternative. This option lays the framework for a very workable alternative to your current closure and restrictive alternatives. The DEIS is not a fully completed document until you develop Alternative R into a legitimate EIS Alternative. 2. I request the following trails/roads be shown as designated in your EIS: (Note: here is where you LIST your favorite trails and roads, by number and route as best you can in accordance with what the USFS shows on their maps. If your trail is lot listed, it will go away. Use GPS coordinates if you have them. Use old historic names/numbers if you know them. Additionally, list WHY you use the trail and HOW you use it. Be specific. Talk about your events on a trail; your rides, your club use, your historical use; and why it should be left open in your opinion.) 3. I am a member of (Note: here is where you tell them about you, your clubs and recreational background, as well as provide your contact information). Next, get your letter ready to go. Make a copy and send it to BlueRibbon, attn: Public Lands, 4555 Burley Drive, Pocatello, ID 83202. Then mail off your letter to the USFS before (the deadline) . You're then in the game! Thank you.
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