One of the goals of TSW has always been to help reporters gain context for their stories, and to provide a means for doing so by using our network to find knowledgeable people on a given topic.
So… this question is about Forest plan objections. Does anyone know who is tracking the different ways Forests are going about conducting the objection process? Does anyone know who is tracking the success of the results, and/or thinking about what metrics might be used to do so?
If we jointly don’t know any folks (including academics, of course) doing that, is there anyone out there who could talk about their own experiences of conducting or participating in the forest plan objection process?
If you don’t feel comfortable posting, just email me at terraveritas at gmail and I will forward to the reporter.
Thanks in advance!!
There is a WO objection review team, so I would guess that they are the ones doing any tracking if tracking is being done. I worked through a Forest Plan objection review process and our yard stick of success was (1) Whether or not the objections would require substantive process re-do (i.e. the NEPA or NFMA processes weren’t followed correctly), and (2) Whether there were substantive changes to the content that would make meeting Forest goals/objectives/desired conditions much more difficult.
I don’t have any interest in talking to reporters. Hope this helps.