Sierra Nevada Framework Appeal

[Jeepskickass]

Below is a one page appeal on the Sierra Nevada Framework. Please print out
a copy and send one to the address below and another to: Regional Forester,
USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region 1323 Club Drive Vallejo CA
94592. We need to get as many appeals in as possible the deadline is it has
to be postmarked by April 17, 2001. Thank for your help on this important
issue. I will be filing an full appeal on behalf of CA4WDC also.

Thanks

Don Klusman

Chief
USDA Forest Service
Attn: Appeals - Barbara Timberlake (Mail Stop 1104)
P.O. Box 96090
Washington, DC 20090-6090

Dear Chief:

I do hereby appeal the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). This appeal is filed in accordance
with 36 CFR 217.

I believe the FEIS illegal. This is partly based on a recent (April 5, 2001)
court decision against the USFS Roadless Rule (Kooteni Tribe et al. v. Ann
Veneman, USFS et al). US District Judge Edward Lodge said that there was
strong evidence that the process did not produce a coherent proposal or
meaningful dialogue and that the end result was predetermined. The judge said
that the rule violated the
National Environmental Policy Act. I believe the FEIS suffers from many of
the roadless rule's legal deficiencies.

The willful omission of the recreation issue is reason alone for me to ask
the agency to withdraw the current document and start a process that includes
the topic of recreation. Nowhere in the document does it describe an
"active" effort on the part of the agency to "manage" the recreational
infrastructure. Although the Record of Decision claims to reaffirm that
providing recreational opportunities is
one of the Forest Service's major missions, the passive management direction
of the FEIS will certainly doom many dispersed and developed recreation
activities.

Developed and dispersed recreation are also at risk from agenda driven
advocates in the agency, the administration, or Congress because by simply
not funding certain studies or research required by the FEIS -- equestrian,
OHV, mountain biking, downhill skiing, cabin egress and ingress, and
permitted commercial ventures may be closed down because of a lack of funding
or agency/administration priority.

Remand back the FEIS to the Forest Service the until legal deficiencies are
corrected.

Sincerely,


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Jeep, yellow

[twn44s]

Got mine from Don Klusman , and it is in the mail.

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[randii]

This is the biggest single thing that challenges our California trails right now... if you only write one letter this year, make this that one.

Randii

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Mongrel-ized Amigo
Managing Editor, http://www.4x4wire.com

[YellowSub1962]

<FONT COLOR="Yellow">This MUST BE POSTMARKED BY TUESDAY....DO IT NOW!!....</FONT c>

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<FONT COLOR="yellow">"Its a Wheelbase Thing, Your Jeep Wouldn't Understand"</FONT c>

Peter S. Di Primo
V.P. - Ventura County Axle Snappers 4WDC
www.axlesnappers.com
Yellowsub1962@aol.com

[Whitewater]

Consider it done! It's really too bad that people don't pay enough attention to this but when the trails get closed they cry like crazy.

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[This message has been edited by Whitewater (edited 04-15-2001).]