[Iesaf_palouse] IESAF position on Idaho Roadless Rule

[Mark Kimsey]

Dear PSR Chapter Members,

 

Attached below is a message from the IESAF Forest Policy Committee Chair
regarding the IESAF position statement being prepared for comment on the
Idaho Roadless Rule.  Please review his comments and then take some time
to go through the attached documents.  Please send me your comments
either through email or at our next chapter meeting.  I am working on
getting a speaker from the USFS to give a presentation on this Roadless
Rule at our Feb. 6th chapter meeting.

 

If you wish to attend a public forum, please review the attached
schedule of public input locations.  Also, listed below is a link to the
Roadless Rule homepage that contains the documents used to produce the
Roadless Rule.

 

http://roadless.fs.fed.us/idaho.shtml

 

Greetings, IESAF Chapter Chairs:

 

As agreed at the IESAF executive committee meeting on Jan. 19, each
IESAF chapter will decide whether to approve the attached position
statement. IESAF needs to complete this business before the comment
period closes in early April, which means the March 20 meeting in Moscow
is when each chapter's business should be finalized and reported.
According to SAF bylaws, it takes a two-thirds vote of unit officers to
approve a position statement. Based on discussion at the Jan. 19
meeting, I suggest you bring the attached position statement draft to
chapter members' attention, solicit their opinions before conducting a
vote, and compile the comments for IESAF executive committee members to
consider, along with your chapter's vote.

 

The SAF does not have a national position on roadless areas, but does
have a position on Roads in Managed Forests* that states, "While
recognizing that roads are necessary in managed forests, SAF also
supports designation of wilderness areas and other protected roadless
areas on national forests and other federal lands, provided that such
classifications are determined following opportunities for public
comment through processes established under the National Forest
Management Act (NFMA) of 1976, the Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (FLPMA) of 1976, the Wilderness Act of 1964, or through other acts
of Congress or federal agency rules." The Idaho Roadless Rule is
consistent with this because it identifies 5 classes of protection for
9.3 million acres of undeveloped areas in Idaho's national forests on a
continuum, and the Forest Service's proposal to adopt the Idaho Roadless
Rule is going through the agency's formal rulemaking process. The IESAF
position statement responds to the agency's request for public comment
as part of that process.

 

*See http://www.safnet.org/policyandpress/psst/Roadsmgdfor1104.pdf 

 

Regards, 

Jay

 

Jay O'Laughlin

IESAF Forest Policy Committee Chair 

phone 208-885-5776; email jayo at uidaho.edu

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