<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Green Friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Wayne National Forest plan is being revised. It is in its assessment phase, and public comment is welcome through August 31. Rebecca and I participated in a phone conference/webinar this evening, and they plan to hold such events at noon on first Wednesdays of each month, and at 7 p.m. on second Wednesdays. I encourage you to look at this website: <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/wayne/landmanagement/planning" class="">https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/wayne/landmanagement/planning</a> A slideshow presentation regarding national forest plans is posted there. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The last eight or 10 slides are especially helpful: How to contribute substantive comments. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also encourage you to comment by August 31 <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">via email to </span><a href="mailto:WaynePlanRevision@fs.fed.us" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">WaynePlanRevision@fs.fed.us</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">, or by mail to 13700 US Hwy 33, Nelsonville, OH 45764.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">They want to know what areas we use for recreation; how our experiences there have changed through the years. They are in a data collection phase. </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">While no parcel of the Wayne is a continuous 5,000-acre roadless area with a potential for wilderness designation, they are looking for smaller blocks to designate as wilderness study areas. (In the Hoosier National Forest, the Charles Deam Wilderness was established despite a road bisecting it! But it’s huge and roadless on either side of the road, so standards for eastern wilderness aren’t as stringent as in the West.) If you know of large tracts of fairly undeveloped areas in the Wayne, please speak up (before someone builds a fracking pad!!)</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">Please support Keep Wayne Wild, and please help the U.S. Forest Service that recognizes and honors to the interconnectedness of the web of life. (By the way, that would <u class="">not</u> have been considered a substantive comment.)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class="">Coming up next in your inbox: Minutes from the July meeting. </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 253, 238);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.239999771118164px;" class="">—dawn</span></span></font></div></body></html>