TrickyTross
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https://wlos.com/news/local/forest-service-proposed-plan-drawing-criticism
Since 2012, there has been a forest plan revision going on for the western most NFs in North Carolina. The plan was supposed to be done in 2014. Its 2018 and we thought the draft plan would be released this winter or next spring.... but this video shows why that will not happen. The proposed project went through the EA and EIS (as mandated by NEPA) as well as multiple revisions by USFS staff. Yet, they follow the rules, mesh what science is telling them into policy and within the confines of law, and they are still protested.......
300 acres (that was clear cut in the 30s, and has actually had 2 additional selective harvest since) out of 19,000 acres (that was also clear cut in the 20s-30s) recommended on a DBH restricted harvest to encourage Early Successional Habitat that multiple game and non-game species depend on.
Some of the groups there who protested are the same ones who advocate for "funding our land management agencies". The irony of it all is the older gentlemen who tells a ranger who has been the steward of that district for year and years "You don't know what your doing. Some of those trees are 227 years old" reminds me of a man in a cowboy hat out west who said very similar things about federal land management while he was being paraded around as a hero....
Reckon one day folks will be allowed to do their jobs and manage a place for multiple use... and wildlife... what a thought
Since 2012, there has been a forest plan revision going on for the western most NFs in North Carolina. The plan was supposed to be done in 2014. Its 2018 and we thought the draft plan would be released this winter or next spring.... but this video shows why that will not happen. The proposed project went through the EA and EIS (as mandated by NEPA) as well as multiple revisions by USFS staff. Yet, they follow the rules, mesh what science is telling them into policy and within the confines of law, and they are still protested.......
300 acres (that was clear cut in the 30s, and has actually had 2 additional selective harvest since) out of 19,000 acres (that was also clear cut in the 20s-30s) recommended on a DBH restricted harvest to encourage Early Successional Habitat that multiple game and non-game species depend on.
Some of the groups there who protested are the same ones who advocate for "funding our land management agencies". The irony of it all is the older gentlemen who tells a ranger who has been the steward of that district for year and years "You don't know what your doing. Some of those trees are 227 years old" reminds me of a man in a cowboy hat out west who said very similar things about federal land management while he was being paraded around as a hero....
Reckon one day folks will be allowed to do their jobs and manage a place for multiple use... and wildlife... what a thought
