Help Make Recreation a Priority in Jackson Demonstration State Forest

With deep respect for the wondrous natural beauty surrounding us, I request that the lands known as Jackson State Forest be allowed to stand.

Do not log Jackson State Forest. We need our open spaces especially at this time.

This forest clothes and protects the health of our part of the earth. We have taken too many trees already.

Please do not log our beautiful recreation Jackson State Forrest - a HUGE part of so many of our lives for so many years. It will not recover for many years even when you re-plant. Listen to the voice of the Locals and of your hearts!

We recently bought our retirement home in Fort Bragg. As stated in the letter, the extensive trail system is one of the main reasons we chose this area.

Please protect our beautiful natural spaces.

This park and it’s trails are vital to the well being of the residents of the coast. We would be lost without them.

Stop logging ! allow this forests and all forests to mature and become a beacon announcing the Healing of Earth's Ecosystem...our Life Support System !

Destroying residential-close forest makes no sense when there is so much of Jackson State Forest that is not near any residential area. Time to get your priorities straight. Coastal communities have been known to help with that. See Redwood Summer!

Please leave the forest available to the public at all times. There is nothing left to "demonstrate" any longer. Let the forest grow and let the locals walk bike and run init.

I ride these trails and others in the area and think that areas without trails should be prioritize. Also, if logging proceeds, there needs to be clear requirements to reopen the trails quickly and in the same or better condition.

The economic viability of our farm depends on those who come to visit our pristine environment and the health of our ecosystem depends upon balanced habitat. Logging is a disruption that devastates wildlife habitat. This must not be allowed.

I love to ride these trails and other trails in the area. Please prioritize logging in areas without trails, or if logging does occur, that impacts are minimized and that the trails a fully rebuilt in a rapid manner.

My family lives next to the main access to Jackson State Forest in Caspar. My wife has been here her whole life, 47 years. I've lived in Mendocino county my whole life. 43 years. This timber harvest is drastically over sized for the proximity to residential areas and recreation areas.

Recreation is vital, long term, and brings in money that stays in the community. When great swaths of great, multi-use trails are destroyed by living activity, and out of commission for multiple years, the blow is not only to immediate recreation income, but affects long term recreation as well. From what I hear from locals, recreation is growing, and if you stunt that growth for a number of years, it may not recover in any meaningful way. Please show down and work with the many stakeholders involved in the recreation economy that is fueled by JDS.

Hasn’t enough woodlands been destroyed. Leave some forest

NOOOOOO. It is such a beautiful place.

It is my understanding that, in 1947 when JDSF was deeded to the PEOPLE of California, it was for RECREATION as well as demonstration forest management (logging). Logging is pretty much all there is.

As a resident of Fort Bragg, our family uses the trails in Jackson often for hiking and exploring. Logging is possible in areas that don't disturb other recreational activities and the people that live nearby.

I live right next to a THP on Caspar Orchard rd and I, and many others, use these trails daily. This cannot be allowed to happen.