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Lakeview Stewardship Group Success Story PDF

Formed in 1998 to restore the 500,000-acre Lakeview Federal Stewardship Unit in the Fremont-Winema National Forest, the Lakeview Stewardship Group is an award-winning collaborative effort that includes conservationists, timber workers, local government officials and other civic leaders. In 2005, the group completed a long-range management strategy for the Unit. The successful collaboration between members of this group has become an inspiration and model in forest conservation by incorporating ecological restoration and community values in land management goals.

Measure Twice. Cut Once. NEPA: Preventing Mistakes and Making Good Projects Better Since 1970 PDF

The federal government wields an extraordinary amount of power that reverberates in all corners of this nation. The National Environmental Policy Act is one way ordinary citizens can weigh in on federal decisions that affect their lives. From highways to oil wells NEPA ensures that a variety of factors, including public input, are considered before the dirt is moved. NEPA is a common sense process that works and any action taken to weaken its provisions would be an assault not just on environmental and health protections but the value of public participation.