[Green] Fw: Wayne NF group sign-on letter. Urgent: Short turn-around. Please sign and share!

[Rebecca Phillips]

Hello, all,


Michelle Wilson just forwarded this to me. Heather Cantino of the Athens County Fracking Action Network is looking for cosigners to this letter objecting to the lack of official grassroots environmental participation in the Wayne National Forest plan revision team. Do we want to sign the document as an organization?


Rebecca


"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero


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From: Michelle Wilson <mwilson at emailsri.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 5:59 PM
To: Rebecca Phillips
Subject: Fw: Wayne NF group sign-on letter. Urgent: Short turn-around. Please sign and share!

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From: Heather Cantino <heather.cantino at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 2:52:44 PM
To: Michelle Wilson
Subject: Wayne NF group sign-on letter. Urgent: Short turn-around. Please sign and share!

Thanks for sharing, Michelle!
Best, Heather


Dear friends,
The Wayne National Forest is undertaking a planning process for a new Forest Plan. We have had little meaningful notice (per the usual) to weigh in by Aug. 30, necessary to establish STANDING and be able to contribute further as the planning process unfolds over the coming year and beyond.

To establish standing to give future input, PLEASE sign onto the attached letter by sending an e--mail
to heather.cantino at gmail.com<mailto:heather.cantino at gmail.com> by Friday, Aug. 17*
with your Name,
(Organization if you can represent one),
City and/or County and other address info,
and Contact information (e-mail at least).

* If you can't provide organizational info by Aug. 17, please let Heather know when you will be able to get your info to us, given the Aug. 30 deadline. Or be sure to send in your own letter/comments (address below) and please bcc-us if you're willing. Thanks!

Attached, besides the letter, are the introduction and recommendations from the 2008 Economic Analysis of the 2006 Wayne National Forest Plan to give you an idea of what was wrong with the 2006 Plan, the focus of this Assessment phase (through Aug. 30) of the new planning process.

In addition to and separately from submitting this group letter, I (Heather) will be sending packets of information to the planning team (many previously sent to the Wayne, such as comments by Buckeye Forest Council and others on logging, ATV trail and highway projects and the entire 2008 Economic Analysis) that document past concerns and current science. Because the 2006 Plan did not address fracking, we will also re-submit key fracking-related comments and research as well as new documents on fracking, climate, etc.. We will also comment on the value of the Forest for low-impact tourism, recreation dollars and well-being in the region and the value of investing in clean energy.

If you would like to be a signatory to these packets (there will be multiple e-mail packets on different subjects with pdfs of research and/or past comments), please let me (Heather) know. I can't send each packet to everyone before submitting them, so this part will require you trusting me to submit materials that you'd like to have represent your concerns. I can send you a couple of sample packets now to help you decide, and if you sign onto this service, I will also bcc you the packets.

Please weigh in, via this group letter (give me notice by Aug. 17) and/or on your own (to wayneplanrevision at fs.fed.us<mailto:wayneplanrevision at fs.fed.us>) by Aug. 30.
Some info at fs.usda.gov/main/wayne/landmanagement/planning<http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/wayne/landmanagement/planning>.
(Please bcc us if you comment independently so we have an idea of the number of substantive and relevant comments the Wayne is getting.)
Thank you!
Heather Cantino
for Athens County Fracking Action Network
and Buckeye Environmental Network
heather.cantino at gmail.com<mailto:heather.cantino at gmail.com>
740-594-3338



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