Deadline Nears for Roadless Area Comment
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With a 500-plus page draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) out pertaining to U.S. Forest Service roadless areas in Colorado, three options are up for consideration. Anyone seeking to participate now has less than a week to get his or her two cents worth in.
However, the council voted 4-0 (with Council members Eric Johnson, Debra Hynes and Mayor Pat Willits absent) to vote for the resolution that follows in support of such groups as the Wilderness Society, Colorado Wild, the Pew Environmental Group and the Western Colorado Congress.
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Sam Goldman
Sam has been with The Wilderness Society since Fall 2007. He came most recently from M+R Strategic Services in Washington, DC where he worked with national environmental groups to improve their online campaign work and field organizing capacity. Before that, Sam was the Assistant National Field Director for U.S. PIRG where he covered a variety of issues including the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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