Until Friday May 24th, RGS members can support forest management and habitat improvement on the GW-Jeff National Forest.
RGS will submit formal comments, but it’s very helpful for individuals to also submit comments supporting active forest management and prescribed fire to create diverse, quality habitat for grouse and other wildlife.
Submit your comments here: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=64669
These are some of the points you can make in your comments:
- Current forest conditions don’t support healthy forests or abundant wildlife populations.
- The GW-Jeff needs to do forest management projects like this to help move stands toward the desired conditions as outlined in the Forest Plan.
- The North Zone Prescribed Fire and Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project is important because it’ll create additional habitat on the North River and Lee Ranger Districts.
- Using prescribed fire and mechanical vegetation treatments, the project will diversify and improve over 4,500 acres of habitat.
- Prescribed fire will help create open-canopy forest conditions, which benefits a variety of wildlife and helps maintain and regenerate oak and other valuable hardwood stands.
