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LARGEST FOREST SERVICE LOGGING PROJECT IN MODERN HISTORY - Dec. 03
Help save the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon from the LARGEST
FOREST SERVICE LOGGING PROJECT IN MODERN HISTORY. Your letters needed
by January 5th, 2004!
FOREST SERVICE LOGGING PROJECT IN MODERN HISTORY. Your letters needed
by January 5th, 2004!
Help save the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon from the LARGEST FOREST SERVICE LOGGING PROJECT IN MODERN HISTORY. Your letters needed by January 5th, 2004!
The Bush Administration and Forest Service have proposed a huge post-fire logging project on the Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon that will damage the Siskiyou Wild Rivers.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) "preferred alternative" proposes logging 518 million board feet of trees on 30,000 acres, or 46 square miles! That's enough trees to fill log trucks lined up end to end for nearly 900 miles!! The proposal calls for logging more than 12,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas, meaning that up to 60,000 acres of roadless wildlands would be
disqualified from Wilderness consideration.
In response to the massive logging proposal from the Forest Service, conservation groups have developed a common-sense restoration proposal called the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative:
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative would:
Provide Natural Recovery for Natural Areas The Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Wild & Scenic River corridors, Roadless Areas, Botanical Areas and other natural or ecologically special areas should be protected. There should be no logging, road building, tree planting or other intrusive projects in these areas.
Heal the Wounds
About 20% of the lands within the Biscuit perimeter were in previously "managed" landscape. This is where true restoration cantake place. Examples of restoration activities that can make a difference include:
Road Decommissioning and Closures, Noxious Weed Control and Erosion Control for Bulldozed Firelines.
Protect Rivers & Water Quality
Absolutely no logging in Riparian Reserves (areas adjacent to creeks) or areas vulnerable to mass erosion due to unstable soils. Protecting these areas protects salmon.
No Sacrifice Zones
Post-fire logging will retard the recovery of the Biscuit area and could severely damage the environment. Any logging should be confined to Matrix forestlands where it is allowed under the Northwest Forest Plan. The Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative relies on guidelines from the "Beschta Report"
<http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf>. It
recommends there be no post-fire logging on unstable areas and trees over 20 inches in diameter be left standing.
No "Logging for Learning" Research
The Forest Service wants to conduct research by extensively logging in the Biscuit burn area. This logging would damage our forest soils and wildlife in the name of science.
WHAT YOU CAN DO!!
Your help is needed! The public has until Monday, January 5th, 2004 to comment on this extreme logging scheme. Please use the sample letter below as a template along with the talking points.
Send your official comments by January 5th to:
Scott Conroy, Forest Supervisor c/o ACT2
PO Box 377
Happy Camp, CA 96039-0377
Email: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us
Fax: 530-493-1775 or 530-493-1776
Sample Letter:
Dear Supervisor Conroy,
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area over which the Biscuit Fire burned is extremely important for its giant wildlands, its wild rivers, salmon and for its famed biological diversity. These natural values and the
recreation they support are important to protect. Natural recovery rather than post-fire logging will best protect these values.
Unfortunately, the Preferred Alternative in the Draft EIS proposes massive logging and also logs two of Oregon's largest roadless areas - the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless areas.
I urge you not to log these special places of the Biscuit area: The Roadless Areas, Botanical Areas and Late-Successional Reserves. Leaving burned trees on the land is not wasteful. These trees are needed for the recovery of the forests. Logging them will damage thin soils, cause erosion and slow recovery.
Decommission and close roads that can cause mass erosion and spread noxious weeds or Port Orford cedar disease. Discontinue the Learning Opportunities science project that would log across 30,000 acres.
Please choose the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative which satisfies the above comments. This alternative is very similar to Alternative 4 without the "Learning Opportunities" research component.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
Information and Talking Points you may also wish to include in your letter:
* The "Preferred Alternative" recommends logging more than 12,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Area. This impact would disqualify 60,000 acres of roadless area from future Wilderness designation.
* There should be no post-fire logging in Roadless Areas, Late-Successional and Riparian Reserves, Botanical Areas and Scenic River Areas.
* Post-fire logging can damage fragile soils, intensify erosion and degrade wildlife habitat. Dead trees are the building blocks for forest recovery.
* There should be no post-fire logging of large trees or trees of any size on steep slopes, severely burned sites and areas with rocky, erosive or fragile soils.
* The "logging for learning" mega-research would log large amounts of trees across 30,000 acres. This so-called research project should be abandoned. We already know that post-fire logging can harm soils, simplify the ecosystem and slow recovery. Don't subject the Late Successional Reserves to this huge logging fiasco.
* Rehabilitate scars from fire fighting and other human impacts.
* Plant nursery seedlings only in burned plantations. Native forests should be allowed to recover in their own time as they have here for thousands of years.
* Expand the Hoover Gulch Research Natural Area to include the Babyfoot Lake area and the watersheds of Dailey, Rancherie, Fall, Days and Fiddler Creeks. This block of land is botanically rich and important for recreation and tourism.
* The closure/decommissioning of old mining tracks and spur roads in the fire area is important to protect botanical values, watershed integrity and to prevent the introduction of non-native plants and Port-Orford cedar root disease. These roads include the Chetco Pass Road, McGrew Trail and all tracks in inventoried roadless areas.
* Fire lines (including old roads and trails used as fire lines), Botanical Areas, and serpentine lands must be closed to motorized use.
* Fuel management zones should be developed in the urban-interface, not in Roadless, Botanical and other sensitive areas.
* The Forest Service proposed logging doesn't make economic sense. The timber sales will cost more to log than the revenues they bring in. Most jobs will be short-lived and out of the area. These won't be "new" jobs but will substitute for other logging work elsewhere.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.biscuitfire.com/proj_plan_index.htm
Make your comments count
E-mail your substantive comments to: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us
Commenters must submit substantive comments (see §215.2) in order to have standing to appeal the forthcoming decision. For appeal eligibility, each individual or representative from each organization submitting substantive comments must either sign the comments or verify identity upon request. Comments will be read, reviewed, and considered, regardless of whether it was one comment repeated many times by many people, or a comment submitted by only one person. Additionally, emphasis will be placed on the substantive content of comments, rather than on the number of times a comment was received (or the number of signatures on petition or form letter response).
For this review, substantive comments are defined as “comments that are within the scope of the proposed action, are specific to the proposed action, have a direct relationship to the proposed action, and include supporting reasons for the Responsible Official to consider”. Substantive comments are more valuable to the Forest Service because they act to:
Provide new information pertaining to any alternative Identify a new relevant issue or expand upon an existing issue Identify a different way (alternative) and/or modify existing alternatives considered Develop and evaluate alternatives not previously considered to meet the underlying need Identify a specific flaw in the analysis to assist us in making factual corrections, and/or supplement, improve or modify our analysis Ask a specific relevant question that can be meaningfully answered or referenced Identify an additional source of credible research, which if utilized, could result in different effects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Bush Administration and Forest Service have proposed a huge post-fire logging project on the Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon that will damage the Siskiyou Wild Rivers.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) "preferred alternative" proposes logging 518 million board feet of trees on 30,000 acres, or 46 square miles! That's enough trees to fill log trucks lined up end to end for nearly 900 miles!! The proposal calls for logging more than 12,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas, meaning that up to 60,000 acres of roadless wildlands would be
disqualified from Wilderness consideration.
In response to the massive logging proposal from the Forest Service, conservation groups have developed a common-sense restoration proposal called the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative:
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative would:
Provide Natural Recovery for Natural Areas The Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Wild & Scenic River corridors, Roadless Areas, Botanical Areas and other natural or ecologically special areas should be protected. There should be no logging, road building, tree planting or other intrusive projects in these areas.
Heal the Wounds
About 20% of the lands within the Biscuit perimeter were in previously "managed" landscape. This is where true restoration cantake place. Examples of restoration activities that can make a difference include:
Road Decommissioning and Closures, Noxious Weed Control and Erosion Control for Bulldozed Firelines.
Protect Rivers & Water Quality
Absolutely no logging in Riparian Reserves (areas adjacent to creeks) or areas vulnerable to mass erosion due to unstable soils. Protecting these areas protects salmon.
No Sacrifice Zones
Post-fire logging will retard the recovery of the Biscuit area and could severely damage the environment. Any logging should be confined to Matrix forestlands where it is allowed under the Northwest Forest Plan. The Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative relies on guidelines from the "Beschta Report"
<http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf>. It
recommends there be no post-fire logging on unstable areas and trees over 20 inches in diameter be left standing.
No "Logging for Learning" Research
The Forest Service wants to conduct research by extensively logging in the Biscuit burn area. This logging would damage our forest soils and wildlife in the name of science.
WHAT YOU CAN DO!!
Your help is needed! The public has until Monday, January 5th, 2004 to comment on this extreme logging scheme. Please use the sample letter below as a template along with the talking points.
Send your official comments by January 5th to:
Scott Conroy, Forest Supervisor c/o ACT2
PO Box 377
Happy Camp, CA 96039-0377
Email: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us
Fax: 530-493-1775 or 530-493-1776
Sample Letter:
Dear Supervisor Conroy,
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area over which the Biscuit Fire burned is extremely important for its giant wildlands, its wild rivers, salmon and for its famed biological diversity. These natural values and the
recreation they support are important to protect. Natural recovery rather than post-fire logging will best protect these values.
Unfortunately, the Preferred Alternative in the Draft EIS proposes massive logging and also logs two of Oregon's largest roadless areas - the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless areas.
I urge you not to log these special places of the Biscuit area: The Roadless Areas, Botanical Areas and Late-Successional Reserves. Leaving burned trees on the land is not wasteful. These trees are needed for the recovery of the forests. Logging them will damage thin soils, cause erosion and slow recovery.
Decommission and close roads that can cause mass erosion and spread noxious weeds or Port Orford cedar disease. Discontinue the Learning Opportunities science project that would log across 30,000 acres.
Please choose the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Conservation Alternative which satisfies the above comments. This alternative is very similar to Alternative 4 without the "Learning Opportunities" research component.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
Information and Talking Points you may also wish to include in your letter:
* The "Preferred Alternative" recommends logging more than 12,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Area. This impact would disqualify 60,000 acres of roadless area from future Wilderness designation.
* There should be no post-fire logging in Roadless Areas, Late-Successional and Riparian Reserves, Botanical Areas and Scenic River Areas.
* Post-fire logging can damage fragile soils, intensify erosion and degrade wildlife habitat. Dead trees are the building blocks for forest recovery.
* There should be no post-fire logging of large trees or trees of any size on steep slopes, severely burned sites and areas with rocky, erosive or fragile soils.
* The "logging for learning" mega-research would log large amounts of trees across 30,000 acres. This so-called research project should be abandoned. We already know that post-fire logging can harm soils, simplify the ecosystem and slow recovery. Don't subject the Late Successional Reserves to this huge logging fiasco.
* Rehabilitate scars from fire fighting and other human impacts.
* Plant nursery seedlings only in burned plantations. Native forests should be allowed to recover in their own time as they have here for thousands of years.
* Expand the Hoover Gulch Research Natural Area to include the Babyfoot Lake area and the watersheds of Dailey, Rancherie, Fall, Days and Fiddler Creeks. This block of land is botanically rich and important for recreation and tourism.
* The closure/decommissioning of old mining tracks and spur roads in the fire area is important to protect botanical values, watershed integrity and to prevent the introduction of non-native plants and Port-Orford cedar root disease. These roads include the Chetco Pass Road, McGrew Trail and all tracks in inventoried roadless areas.
* Fire lines (including old roads and trails used as fire lines), Botanical Areas, and serpentine lands must be closed to motorized use.
* Fuel management zones should be developed in the urban-interface, not in Roadless, Botanical and other sensitive areas.
* The Forest Service proposed logging doesn't make economic sense. The timber sales will cost more to log than the revenues they bring in. Most jobs will be short-lived and out of the area. These won't be "new" jobs but will substitute for other logging work elsewhere.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.biscuitfire.com/proj_plan_index.htm
Make your comments count
E-mail your substantive comments to: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us
Commenters must submit substantive comments (see §215.2) in order to have standing to appeal the forthcoming decision. For appeal eligibility, each individual or representative from each organization submitting substantive comments must either sign the comments or verify identity upon request. Comments will be read, reviewed, and considered, regardless of whether it was one comment repeated many times by many people, or a comment submitted by only one person. Additionally, emphasis will be placed on the substantive content of comments, rather than on the number of times a comment was received (or the number of signatures on petition or form letter response).
For this review, substantive comments are defined as “comments that are within the scope of the proposed action, are specific to the proposed action, have a direct relationship to the proposed action, and include supporting reasons for the Responsible Official to consider”. Substantive comments are more valuable to the Forest Service because they act to:
Provide new information pertaining to any alternative Identify a new relevant issue or expand upon an existing issue Identify a different way (alternative) and/or modify existing alternatives considered Develop and evaluate alternatives not previously considered to meet the underlying need Identify a specific flaw in the analysis to assist us in making factual corrections, and/or supplement, improve or modify our analysis Ask a specific relevant question that can be meaningfully answered or referenced Identify an additional source of credible research, which if utilized, could result in different effects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For more information:
http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Bescht...
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Dear Greens,
besides global war, minority round-ups, and environmental distruction, destroying the forest is the latest result of the Nader-Bush unholy alliance.
Please wake up in time for 2004. Every vote against Bush counts. Give the Democrats one more chance, but vote for Matt in SF to teach them a lesson.
Save the forests, don't vote Green in 2004.
besides global war, minority round-ups, and environmental distruction, destroying the forest is the latest result of the Nader-Bush unholy alliance.
Please wake up in time for 2004. Every vote against Bush counts. Give the Democrats one more chance, but vote for Matt in SF to teach them a lesson.
Save the forests, don't vote Green in 2004.
"destroying the forest is the latest result of the Nader-Bush unholy alliance." Hardly.
From: "U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer" <BulletinFeedback [at] boxer.senate.gov>
To:
Subject: Senator Boxer: Healthy Forests Restoration Act
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0800
I thought you would be interested in the following message.
===================================================
Dear Friend:
Congress recently passed the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of
2003. I am happy to send along some excerpts from my statement
on this important legislation. If you would like to contact me
about this or any other federal matter, I encourage you to
contact me at http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm .
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
HEALTHY FORESTS RESTORATION ACT OF 2003
Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, Southern California has recently
experienced the devastating impacts of wildfire first-hand.
More than 750,000 acres burned, and 24 people died. We have
seen how important it is to take the appropriate steps to
protect our vulnerable communities from the threat of wildfire,
and that is why I am supporting this bill.
The bill before us invests in preventing wildfires, rather than
just trying to fight them after the fact. Each year, $760
million is authorized for wildfire prevention projects, such as
tree and brush removal, thinning, and prescribed burning. In
total, the bill would allow treatment of 20 million acres.
Priority is given to projects that protect communities and
watersheds, and at least 50% of the funds must be used near
at-risk communities. The other 50% will be spent on projects
near municipal water supply systems and on lands infested with
disease or insects. This is a good start at preventing fires.
===================================================
For more information on Senator Boxer's record and other
information, please go to: http://boxer.senate.gov
If you would like to make a comment regarding this or any other
federal matter, please feel free to do so at:
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
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cancel your subscription, please reply to this message with
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From: "U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer" <BulletinFeedback [at] boxer.senate.gov>
To:
Subject: Senator Boxer: Healthy Forests Restoration Act
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0800
I thought you would be interested in the following message.
===================================================
Dear Friend:
Congress recently passed the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of
2003. I am happy to send along some excerpts from my statement
on this important legislation. If you would like to contact me
about this or any other federal matter, I encourage you to
contact me at http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm .
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
HEALTHY FORESTS RESTORATION ACT OF 2003
Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, Southern California has recently
experienced the devastating impacts of wildfire first-hand.
More than 750,000 acres burned, and 24 people died. We have
seen how important it is to take the appropriate steps to
protect our vulnerable communities from the threat of wildfire,
and that is why I am supporting this bill.
The bill before us invests in preventing wildfires, rather than
just trying to fight them after the fact. Each year, $760
million is authorized for wildfire prevention projects, such as
tree and brush removal, thinning, and prescribed burning. In
total, the bill would allow treatment of 20 million acres.
Priority is given to projects that protect communities and
watersheds, and at least 50% of the funds must be used near
at-risk communities. The other 50% will be spent on projects
near municipal water supply systems and on lands infested with
disease or insects. This is a good start at preventing fires.
===================================================
For more information on Senator Boxer's record and other
information, please go to: http://boxer.senate.gov
If you would like to make a comment regarding this or any other
federal matter, please feel free to do so at:
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
If this message reached you in error, or if you would like to
cancel your subscription, please reply to this message with
unsubscribe in the subject line.
The comment period ends 45 calendar days following the date of publication of the Notice of Availability in the Federal Register (CFR) 215.6(a)(2). The boundary of the Biscuit Fire reaches west to within 12 miles of the coastal community of Brookings; south into northern California, east as far as the Illinois Valley; and north to within a few miles of the Rogue River. The project area consists of 469,152 acres on portions of the Bureau of Land Management Lands of the Grants Pass Resource Area, and portions of the Galice, Illinois Valley, Chetco, and Gold Beach Ranger Districts within Josephine and Curry Counties. The Purpose of the DEIS is to document ways to restore lands to the desired condition as disclosed in the Siskiyou National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan as amended by the Northwest Forest Plan. The specific Needs documented in the DEIS include: Improving firefighter safety, reducing the risk of high-intensity, stand replacing fire on publicly and privately managed lands and nearby communities, protecting remaining late successional forest habitat used by species of concern - especially Threatened and Endangered (T&E) species from further loss-, recovering merchantable timber before the value of the wood is lost to deterioration, accelerating restoration of habitats of concern to desirable conditions, maintaining and restoring water quality and reducing potential chronic sediment delivery to streams, and learning about post-fire environments and different strategies to manage resources in those environments. Forest Supervisor Scott Conroy has identified Alternative 7 as the preferred alternative at this time. Alternative 7 provides the best mix of economic benefit (as measured by job creation) and restoration treatments. It calls for a high level of conifer reforestation, treats the greatest number of burn acres (under prescribed burning conditions), creates the most miles of fuels management zones, decommissions and stabilizes the greatest miles of roads, and provides for a high level of salvage harvest. Alternative 7 is designed to provide a full range of choices with regard to reforestation and salvage. It provides for economic recovery and watershed restoration, including fuels treatments. This alternative proposes entry into some Inventoried Roadless Areas, while applying consideration for Roadless values. This alternative includes a study plan that tests 3 distinct pathways that are designed to establish old growth habitat back into the ecosystem. Seven alternatives are considered in detail including No-Action. It is the responsibility of all individuals and organizations to ensure that their comments are received in a timely manner as provided for in section 215.6 (a)(4). The DEIS comment period begins on November 22, 2003 and ends on January 5, 2004.
Sorry if no one answered your "question" to your satisfaction. If you really want to find an answer, educate yourself on the current global environmental crisis: the matrix of corporations that vandalize our clean air, water, and forests for profit. Here are a few links for you, if you are indeed serious:
http://www.nrdc.org/
http://www.savebiogems.org
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/
http://www.nrdc.org/
http://www.savebiogems.org
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/
A few more web sites on our national treasures, and Bush's forest destruction plan.
http://www.siskiyou.org/
http://www.kswild.org/
http://www.siskiyou.org/
http://www.kswild.org/
Yes, Bush's forest destruction plan defies good science, good forest management, and good judgement. It does prompt the question: "For what reason?" The answer, simply put, is for profit. That's what crooked politicians live for. That's why the corporate polluters trash the earth.
Ecological Issues Underlying Proposals to Conduct Salvage Logging in Areas Burned by the Biscuit Fire
For more information:
http://www.consbio.org/cbi/services/biscui...
The Forest Service is planning the largest logging project in modern history in southwestern Oregon's Siskiyou Wild Rivers area. Their extreme plans to log sensitive Biscuit-fire affected forests would drive chainsaws into some of the largest unprotected roadless areas on the West Coast, including the North and South Kalmiopsis wildlands.
This is the most extreme logging proposal in the nation - including up to 1.02 BILLION board feet of logging across up to 60,000 acres of wild forests. This is enough to create an unbroken chain of
logging trucks 2,700 miles long - reaching from Oregon to the East Coast.
The public has only one chance to give oral testimony on this over-the-top logging plan - this Wednesday, December 17th from 5:00-9:00 in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Josephine County Fair Grounds
Pavilion Building
1415 Fairgrounds Road
Grants Pass, OR.
http://www.biscuitfire.com/deis/ad-378.pdf
=====================================
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: December 12, 2003
Release No: RR-SNF-12/12/03
Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft EIS Public Comment Period Extended
Medford, OR – The public comment period for the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has been extended by 15 days and now ends on January 20, 2004.
In choosing the length of the extension, Conroy sought a balance between busy holiday schedules and the economic losses anticipated from further wood decay.
In the last two weeks, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have conducted four public open houses. An oral public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, December 17 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Josephine County Fairgrounds Pavilion Building. Up to 3 minutes will be allotted for any individual who wishes to comment. A court reporter will record all comments.
The Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft EIS was publicly released on November 21, 2003 for a 45-day public comment period and was scheduled to end on January 5, 2003. All written, faxed, or electronic comments should be sent to: Scott Conroy, care of ACT2 Enterprise Team, P. O. Box 377, Happy Camp, CA 96039, faxed to (530) 493-1776, or e-mailed to: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us. The DEIS is posted on the Internet at “http://www.biscuitfire.com".
For more information about the Biscuit Fire Recovery DEIS, contact Judy McHugh (541) 471-6500.
***- END -***
http://www.biscuitfire.com/deis/extended.htm
This is the most extreme logging proposal in the nation - including up to 1.02 BILLION board feet of logging across up to 60,000 acres of wild forests. This is enough to create an unbroken chain of
logging trucks 2,700 miles long - reaching from Oregon to the East Coast.
The public has only one chance to give oral testimony on this over-the-top logging plan - this Wednesday, December 17th from 5:00-9:00 in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Josephine County Fair Grounds
Pavilion Building
1415 Fairgrounds Road
Grants Pass, OR.
http://www.biscuitfire.com/deis/ad-378.pdf
=====================================
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: December 12, 2003
Release No: RR-SNF-12/12/03
Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft EIS Public Comment Period Extended
Medford, OR – The public comment period for the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has been extended by 15 days and now ends on January 20, 2004.
In choosing the length of the extension, Conroy sought a balance between busy holiday schedules and the economic losses anticipated from further wood decay.
In the last two weeks, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have conducted four public open houses. An oral public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, December 17 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Josephine County Fairgrounds Pavilion Building. Up to 3 minutes will be allotted for any individual who wishes to comment. A court reporter will record all comments.
The Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Draft EIS was publicly released on November 21, 2003 for a 45-day public comment period and was scheduled to end on January 5, 2003. All written, faxed, or electronic comments should be sent to: Scott Conroy, care of ACT2 Enterprise Team, P. O. Box 377, Happy Camp, CA 96039, faxed to (530) 493-1776, or e-mailed to: r6_biscuit [at] fs.fed.us. The DEIS is posted on the Internet at “http://www.biscuitfire.com".
For more information about the Biscuit Fire Recovery DEIS, contact Judy McHugh (541) 471-6500.
***- END -***
http://www.biscuitfire.com/deis/extended.htm
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