The Smokey Wire : National Forest News and Views
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Date: March 31, 2016 at 4:03:32 PM MDT To: [email protected] Cc: Mary Erickson <[email protected]> Please see the attached letter regarding the Gallatin Community Collaborative and our recommendation for the Gallatin Range Wilderness. The letter is being provided on behalf of 14 organizations and 4 individuals. March 29, 2016 RE: Gallatin Community Collaborative process To Whom … Read more
We’ve had many discussions and debates on this blog over the past few years about the roll of collaboration in federal public lands policy and management. For example, last week we shared an opinion piece from the Swan View Coalition (Montana) offering up that organization’s perspective on how some of the collaborative processes in their … Read more
We’ve heard this mantra in many places when the different recreationists seek to have land managed for their varying methods of recreation. It seems to me if place-based decisions worked out by locals are the best way to proceed- but I’d be interested in hearing other points of view. The comments are also interesting. In … Read more
I was reading Sharon’s post about good and bad businesses and realized the same polarization is now occurring with recreation., and it seems the Bitterroot National Forest is ground zero for this new conflict. The BNF was the only Region One forest to ban bikes in both Recommended Wilderness and now it is instituting a … Read more