Fwd: What the Wilderness Society wants for the Sierras and your Family

[Todd & Larisa Ockert]

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From: in...@foccma.org
Date: April 7, 2012 9:17:40 AM PDT
To: tjoc...@comcast.net
Subject: What the Wilderness Society wants for the Sierras and your Family

If you and your family value your freedom to access your Public Lands in the Sierras you had better take a moment to read this.

The Wilderness Society has formulated a closure agenda against all Americans who value their freedom to recreate with their families on Public Lands.

It is this type of behavior by a select proclaimed few who wish to eliminate your access to Public Lands and lock all of you who truly enjoy the Great Outdoors from accessing the Public Lands your hard earned tax dollars help support to keep open for you and your families enjoyment.

The information listed below was taken directly from the Wilderness Society web page www.wilderness.org please take a moment and visit their web page to see the selfish behavior a select few wish to impose on you the recreating public.

Mike

CALIFORNIA

From majestic forests to desert beauty our California campaigns are protecting wildlife habitat, enhancing recreation and promoting smart renewable energy statewide.

Sierra Nevada Campaign

Sierra Nevada Forest Protection and Restoration Project

The Wilderness Society, working in coalition with Sierra Forest Legacy and other partners, is actively working to protect and restore the Sierra’s national forests. These forests are governed by an outdated, Bush-era management plan - known as the 2004 Framework - that promotes commercial logging at the expense of old growth forests and wildlife habitat.

Our lawsuit challenging that plan – known as the 2004 Framework – has succeeded in blocking or delaying numerous logging projects that have targeted the Sierra’s remaining large trees.
While our legal challenge to the 2004 Framework is pending, our coalition is developing a conservation strategy to influence the Forest Service’s forest plan revision process. Towards that goal, The Wilderness Society recently prepared a comprehensive research paper, Managing the Risk of Climate Change to Wildlands of the Sierra Nevada, that makes the case for careful Sierra management to maintain key ecological building blocks. It also emphasizes the importance of establishing large, connected reserves that will allow species to migrate and move, if necessary, in response to climate change.
The Wilderness Society and our coalition partners are working with scientists, federal and state agencies, and the public to protect the Sierra Nevada. Through advocacy at all levels of the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture, we are pushing the Obama Administration to adopt a science-based management plan to protect and restore the Sierra’s outstanding forests, streams and wildlife.

Travel Management and California Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Initiative

Public roads are arguably the largest source of environmental damage to our federal forests. Roads can disrupt water flows, increase runoff, and deposit sediments in streams. They fragment habitat and are barriers for sensitive animal species. Traffic also creates noise and visual disturbances to people and wildlife.
The sheer magnitude of California’s national forest road system is far too large and expensive to maintain, leaving roads in poor condition. The 11 national forests in the Sierra Nevada are riddled with more than 25,000 miles of roads. Many are obsolete, unneeded and deteriorating. These roads are soiling our national forest streams and rivers that are the drinking water source for millions of Californians. Our Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Initiative is using the Forest Service’s travel management process to stop damaging off-road cross-country travel on approximately 10 million acres of forest land and close more than 7,000 miles of unnecessary vehicle routes illegally created by off-road vehicle users. We are now working with the Forest Service to identify the minimum necessary road system, and this should lead to the closure or reclamation of thousands of additional miles of unneeded, environmentally damaging roads. We will also continue to lobby Congress, which has already resulted in more federal funding ($90 million for 2009) for forest road projects.



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Begin forwarded message:

From: in...@foccma.org
Date: April 7, 2012 9:17:40 AM PDT
To: tjoc...@comcast.net
Subject: What the Wilderness Society wants for the Sierras and your Family

If you and your family value your freedom to access your Public Lands in the Sierras you had better take a moment to read this.

The Wilderness Society has formulated a closure agenda against all Americans who value their freedom to recreate with their families on Public Lands..

It is this type of behavior by a select proclaimed few who wish to eliminate your access to Public Lands and lock all of you who truly enjoy the Great Outdoors from accessing the Public Lands your hard earned tax dollars help support to keep open for you and your families enjoyment.

The information listed below was taken directly from the Wilderness Society web page www.wilderness.org please take a moment and visit their web page to see the selfish behavior a select few wish to impose on you the recreating public.

Mike

CALIFORNIA

From majestic forests to desert beauty our California campaigns are protecting wildlife habitat, enhancing recreation and promoting smart renewable energy statewide.

Sierra Nevada Campaign

Sierra Nevada Forest Protection and Restoration Project

The Wilderness Society, working in coalition with Sierra Forest Legacy and other partners, is actively working to protect and restore the Sierra’s national forests. These forests are governed by an outdated, Bush-era management plan - known as the 2004 Framework - that promotes commercial logging at the expense of old growth forests and wildlife habitat.

Our lawsuit challenging that plan – known as the 2004 Framework – has succeeded in blocking or delaying numerous logging projects that have targeted the Sierra’s remaining large trees.

While our legal challenge to the 2004 Framework is pending, our coalition is developing a conservation strategy to influence the Forest Service’s forest plan revision process. Towards that goal, The Wilderness Society recently prepared a comprehensive research paper, Managing the Risk of Climate Change to Wildlands of the Sierra Nevada, that makes the case for careful Sierra management to maintain key ecological building blocks. It also emphasizes the importance of establishing large, connected reserves that will allow species to migrate and move, if necessary, in response to climate change..