A Tides Foundation Project
Plumas National Forest, California
We are a local Plumas County environmental activist group working to preserve and protect the publically owned forests of the Northern Sierra Nevada. Our ultimate goal is to eliminate commercial logging on National Forest lands and to stop extractive industries from destroying our precious forests.
1.) VICTORY!!! On August 3, the District Ranger pulled the devastating Horton II fire salvage and recovery projects stating that, "I have decided to withdraw the May 3, 2000, decision for Horton II Fire Recovery and the May 3, 2000, decision for Horton II Fire Salvage." This has everything to do with the June 26 administrative appeal largely completed by PFP. During an early July meeting with District personnel, we attempted to get the now-replaced District Ranger to alter the project to meet our objectives. She refused, and the appeal was then fully in the hands of the Regional Forester Appeal Deciding Officer. After extensive review by the Regional Forester's office, somehow the District was convinced it was in error and the new District Ranger pulled the project. Please read the Horton II Appeal to see how we did it!
2.)The Forest Service is analyzing the extent to which existing national forest roadless areas should be protected from management activities. Read our recent comments on the Forest Service proposal.
3.) The Quincy Library Group (QLG) has successfully gotten its special-interest legislation through Congress with (unfortunately) the aid of Senator Dianne Feinstein. PFP has been opposed to the Quincy plan from its inception and we continue to work to block its implementation. In October 1999, for example, PFP filed an administrative appeal of the QLG Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). PFP also followed up on the appeal when we discovered important information in Appendix J, a portion of the EIS that was not made available until well after the release of the EIS. Our appeal was rejected along with numerous others submitted to the Forest Service Regional office. Nevertheless, we are continuing to raise many of our concerns noted in that appeal in ongoing, project-level planning and project-level administrative appeals. We also recommend that you read the appeal.
4.) As always, PFP works closely with local Forest Service officials to effect changes to business-as-usual timber sales and other Forest Service projects that threaten our forests, most recently on the first-to-be proposed QLG-based timber sale. Please read our initial comments on the Red Clover Group Selection Project in which the Forest Service has proposed a timber sale of mini-clearcuts. On June 15, the District Ranger issued a decision choosing a project in the same area that implements the DFPZ aspect of the HF-QLG Act. We consider her decision to be a potential disaster for the Red Clover area. Read our August 7 administrative appeal of this project.
We are based in Blairsden, California, and can be reached at:
Plumas Forest Project
P.O. Box 903
Blairsden, CA 96103-0903
Neil Dion or John Preschutti.