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October 01, 2003
Forest Plan Revision - MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
This is it. The Forest Service has started the official process for revising the forest plan. And they have once again minimize the public notice of meetings and FAIL to hold any in the three biggest cities that attract Allegheny National Forest users: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Buffalo. Instead the choice of locations is clearly selected to minimize dissenters to their cut it all down mantra. Note how they once again have REFUSED to hold a meeting south of the Allegheny near Clarion, PA. This is a pattern of manipulation that must cease immediately.
Here are the scheduled dates for public meetings:
October 27 - Warren, PA
October 28 - Erie, PA
November 5 - State College, PA (PUBLIC HEARING!)
Two relevant links:
The Forest Service Press Release
Look for detailed analysis on this early tomorrow. In the meantime use this thread to add your own thoughts!
Posted by jkleissler at October 1, 2003 11:51 AM
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A formal public hearing. From 1-5 in the afternoon on a weekday. In State College. Now there's accessible government for you. We need to call them on this, and now. If they are going to hold public hearings in the middle of a workday, they need to hold them in every population center within a day's drive of the forest. Or they can try holding one on a weekend or on a Friday evening. I would like to organize people from Pittsburgh to come to this hearing, but I don't see how I'm going to get anybody (much less be able to come myself) on a Wednesday afternoon.
This is ridiculous!!
Posted by: Karen at October 2, 2003 12:10 AM
Jim,
Could you clarify the difference between the Erie and Warren meetings and the State College hearing? Is this a difference in style? Do they both "count" toward the NEPA process requirements? Is this to be the only hearing on the NOI?
- Rachel
Posted by: Rachel at October 3, 2003 12:38 PM
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