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ALERT - December 4, 2006:  Protect Our Woods joins allies to submit a response to the Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the German Ridge Restoration Project in Hoosier National Forest

Karyn Moskowitz, MBA and Christine Glaser, PhD of the GreenFire Consulting Group, LLC have officially submitted the comments linked below on December 4, 2006 on behalf of Protect Our Woods, Heartwood, Indiana Forest Alliance, Sassafras Audubon Society, and the Tree of Life Alliance. 

1.  The Public Wants No Logging

2.  The Pines Are Getting Old - Timber Industry Focus

3.  Inconsistent  Information about the Time Frame of the Analysis

4.  Why Are Natural Disturbances Not Enough?

5.  Edge and Early Successional Habitats in Short Supply?

6.  Alternatives to Cutting and Burning for Creating Early Successional Habitat Not Considered

7.  The Questionable Need of Restoring Oak Hickory: Part 1 of 2Part 2 of 2

8.  Are Logging and Fire the Right Tools to Restore Oak Hickory? Part 1 of 3Part 2 of 3Part 3 of 3

9.  Failure To Consider Reasonable Alternatives to Logging For Oak-Hickory Restoration

10.  Cumulative Effects Analysis Is Still Insufficient: Part 1 of 4, Part 2 of 4, Part 3 of 4, Part 4 of 4

11. Standards and Guidelines

12. Deficiencies of Cash Flow Analysis

13. Roadless Areas

14. The Size of Clearcuts

15. Blowdown of Hardwoods – Where is the Evidence?

16. Logging of Hardwoods: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2

17.  Prescribed Burning: Part 1 of 6, Part 2 of 6, Part 3 of 6, Part 4 of 6, Part 5 of 6, Part 6 of 6

18. Illegal Hoosier-Shawnee Ecological Assessment is Heavily Relied Upon in the Hoosier Plan

19. The Forest Plan is Illegal

20. Indiana bat: Part 1 of 5,  Part 2 of 5, Part 3 of 5, Part 4 of 5, Part 5 of 5

21. Species Survival

22. Persons Who May Be Interested Or Affected Were Left Out Of Scoping Process For The DSFEIS

23. Recreation

24. Forests and Climate Change

25. Pine Plantations Have Ecological Functions

26. Deer Impacts Neglected

27. Riparian Protections Are Inadequate

28.  Soil Analysis Is Incomplete – Soils Could Be Harmed Permanently: Part 1 of 3, Part 2 of 3, Part 3 of 3

29.  Deficiencies of Economic Analysis: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2

30. No Satisfactory Analysis of Ecosystem Services: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2

31. Hoosier National Forest Plan Management Areas


Contact information for the allies identified above:

Karyn Moskowitz, MBA
Christine Glaser, PhD
GreenFire Consulting Group
 
Jeanne Melchior, President
Protect Our Woods
P.O. Box 352
Paoli, Indiana 47454

Mark Donham
Heartwood
RR # 1, Box 308
Brookport, IL 62910
 
Drew Laird, Coordinator
Indiana Forest Alliance
The Caldwell Center for Culture and Ecology
323 S. Walnut Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47401-3511

Jess A. Gwinn, Conservation Chair
Sassafras Audubon Society
POB 85
Bloomington, IN 47402
 
Tree of Life Alliance

Perry County, IN
              
Protect Our Woods
  PO Box 352
  Paoli, Indiana 47454
  
  
    
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