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NFMA Forest Planning Rule Comment Letter PDF

This comment letter addresses how our country’s 193 million-acre National Forest System should be managed to meet the challenges and demands of the 21st Century. The letter was composed specifically in response to a Forest Service request for comment on how the agency should re-write the rules to implement the National Forest Management Act of 1976. The NFMA is one of the most important public land laws that Congress has ever passed. It requires the Forest Service to involve citizens and scientists in designing the management plans for each National Forest and Grassland.

A Roadmap to Clean Water: The Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative PDF

The main threat to water quality in many national forests is the Forest Service’s vast and crumbling road system, an environmentally-harmful vestige of the agency’s industrial logging era. With The Wilderness Society’s strong support, Congress has stepped forward with new funding to address the problem, including $90 million in the Forest Service’s FY 2010 budget for urgent road decommissioning and repairs.

Carbon Storage from Revegetating Unneeded Forest Service Roads PDF

An overlooked opportunity to sequester carbon on National Forests rests with its massive road system. Preliminary analysis by TWS has indicated that returning unneeded Forest Service roads back to a natural state would be equivalent to revegetating an area larger than Rhode Island. We estimate that carbon storage from decommissioning and revegetating unneeded roads on our national forests is 39.5 — 48.5 million metric tons.

Recreation Economic Impact Tool (REIT) XLSPDF

The majority of individuals that visit our national forests participate in quiet, nature based forms of recreation such as hiking, camping, bird watching, and fishing. These same quiet recreationists provide a significant source of revenue for local businesses when they spend money during their visit. It’s important that land managers consider the economic consequences of decisions that they make — such as approving a timber harvest or constructing a dirt bike trail — may result in the displacement of quiet recreationists.

Protecting New Hampshire’s Wild Places PDF

Covering almost 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and Maine, the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) contains some of the most untamed country remaining in the Northeast – yet the Forest Service is approving more destructive logging projects on this single protected “roadless” forests than it has for the rest of the entire country combined.

Selected Federal Lands in the United States MAP PDF

This map illustrates Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service areas.

Letter to Senators from TWS and Partners asking Congress to appropriate funds to Legacy Roads Remediation Initiative PDF

This letter was written to Senators regarding the Legacy Roads Remediation Initiative as defined in the House Interior Appropriations bill (HR 2643).

Targeting the Community Fire Planning Zone: Mapping Matters PDF

Protecting communities threatened by wildland fire is one of the highest priorities of federal fire policy. The National Fire Plan and the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy have called on federal agencies such the USDA Forest Service and the USDOI Bureau of Land Management to focus their efforts on the “wildland-urban interface,” where private homes abut fire-prone public wildlands.

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