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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dear PSR Chapter Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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. 6<sup>th</sup> chapter meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a
href="http://roadless.fs.fed.us/idaho.shtml">http://roadless.fs.fed.us/idaho.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Greetings, IESAF Chapter Chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>*See <a
href="http://www.safnet.org/policyandpress/psst/Roadsmgdfor1104.pdf">http://www.safnet.org/policyandpress/psst/Roadsmgdfor1104.pdf</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jay<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jay O’Laughlin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IESAF Forest Policy Committee Chair <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>phone 208-885-5776; email <a href="mailto:jayo@uidaho.edu">jayo@uidaho.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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