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Forest Access For All Newsletter

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Current Status of Travel Management

We have been in contact with the Forest Service and have been told that Travel Management is not a priority.  According to their March Travel Management Newsletter, “There is no agenda or imposed timeline for a TMP decision, and we will work hard to establish effective ways to engage the public in discussions so that your input is considered in the development and implementation of the plan."  However it should be noted that Supervisor Laurence has now been quoted 5 times in stating that roads will be closed, not everyone will like the results, and this will all be done by 2015. Now is the time to increase participation in letting the WWNF know our desires to keep an open forest.
That WWNF Travel Management Newsletter is on the WWNF website.  On the last page are instructions on how to join the Travel Management mailing list.  If you had previously requested notification of all Travel Management issues on the WWNF in 2012 please resubmit your request as you will need to do so to remain on the contact list, and it will be used as a measuring tool for public interest.
Analysis of the appeals (later deemed “comments outside of a comment period”) that the WWNF received last year were scheduled to be released to the public in March of 2013.  This did not happen much the same as we’ve been told now for 7 months, so now we will shoot for April.


Wallowa Whitman Forest Collaborative

 

A new group has raised its head in Northeastern Oregon to help “guide” public lands management in our mountains. This group is facilitated by Wallowa Resources in Enterprise and is a group of self-appointed land managers deciding the fate of your access to the mountains. It should be noted that the “operational group” is comprised of Hells Canyon Preservation Council, OregonWild, Sustainable Northwest and Wallowa Resources, along with Boise Cascade, and a handful of county officials and state employees (ODF, ODFW, and OSU Extension). For you that do not know, HCPC and OregonWild have been pushing for the better part of 3 decades to stop logging, grazing, and general use of the forest in the name of “quiet wilderness” experiences, a phrase our new Forest Supervisor also likes to use freely. Sustainable Northwest is a Portland based community organizational group supporting its mission through “Ecosystem Restoration” and is a sitting member of Wallowa Resources board of trustees and then Wallowa Resources who has on as another board member the Sonoran Institute of Bozeman Mt. that helped move that great state to the wilderness society that has all but killed access to all rural committees and is a major proponent of the Tester Wilderness Bill, which will lock up more lands throughout the west (it is being couched as a “jobs” bill).
This WWFC has been expressly asked to address the lack of general public participation since its inception in the summer of 2012, with all requests being rebuffed, mostly by the operational group’s unwillingness to hold meetings at times other than the middle of the work week and during work hours. It is the position of FAFA that this group is not looking out for the betterment of the people of Eastern Oregon, but means to develop “consensus” on moving people off the landscape and closing additional roads through a project by project assessment to negotiate hour access away. Please be aware of the WWFC and the actions it is taking, they are going to be deciding your access to the forest unless we tell them otherwise.

 


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Introducing the Forest Access For All newsletter
This is the inaugural issue of the FAFA newsletter.  This newsletter will be sent out monthly to FAFA members that have email addresses on record with us.
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UPDATED WEBSITE!
www.forestaccessforall.com has been updated!  It will now get regular news updates, allows for comments from registered users, contains files, links and youtube videos.  The new website is connected to the FAFA Facebook page.  You can create an account using your Facebook account or create an account with just a username and email. 
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How you can help
  • Forest Access For All is a 100% volunteer organization.  Please consider becoming a member by going to www.forestaccessforall.org and clicking on BECOME A MEMBER

  • Print out this newsletter and share with friends.  To be successful, we need every voice we can to get the point across and over come the radical environmentalist influence that has been behind Travel Management.

  • People that have writing skills to write articles, letters, etc are needed.

  • Anybody that has time to research different aspects are encouraged  to reply to this newsletter and we will get you set up.  
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