K.I.S.S. Part II

Contributed by Andy Stahl In comments on K.I.S.S. (Part 1, I now realize), John Rupe suggests that NFMA requires that forest plans be an “umbrella document” to guide all national forest activities.  There are three reasons for thinking that’s not the case.  First, the existing plethora of non-NFMA forest-wide plans argues that the Forest Service … Read more

K.I.S.S.

Contributed by Andy Stahl Forest planning has been hijacked by a generation of planners who turned what should have been a narrowly-focused effort to constrain an out-of-control Forest Service logging program and turned it into a wasteful, endless, bureaucratic exercise with little merit.  Let’s review what the National Forest Management Act actually requires of plans … Read more

Words, words, words

In 1990, with one round of NFMA plans under its belt (but not yet knowing the wheels were about to come off), the Forest Service critiqued its planning process. The first recommendation to issue from that critique was to “Simplify, Clarify, and Shorten the Planning Process.” Does the proposed new rule do so? The 1982 … Read more