Save the Santa Fe National Forest

It is imperative that we protect our remaining forests by a more ecological, long-term approach than this human manipulation, madness of burning forests to protect them. The forest floor serves as a bridge between the above ground living vegetation and the soil, and it is a crucial component in nutrient transfer through the biogeochemical cycle. Much of the energy and carbon fixed by forests is periodically added to the forest floor through litterfall, and a substantial portion of the nutrient requirements of forest ecosystems is supplied by decomposition of organic matter in the forest floor and soil surface. Without ground cover in forests, the soil loses moisture, insects, birds & other animals cannot thrive. We need less "management" and more thoughtful, long-term ecological approaches. How about seriously dealing with Human-caused Climate Change?

I am NOT supporting the Santa Fe Mountain Landscape Resiliency Project plan which includes cutting down the large majority of trees on up to 21,000 acres and repeatedly burning up to 43,000 acres. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pursue an EIS BEFORE this is pursued. Past projects have left behind barren, dried-out and ecologically damaged forest. Many members of the public have reported being made ill by so much prescribed burn smoke.

We have new climate situations happening and so must have new EIS. Trees must be understood in a new way---in regards to their communication amongst each other and the environment surrounding them---taking into account up to date discoveries that have been made.

Prepare an ENVIRORNMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT! Halt all tree clearing project and follow due process with public fully informed and involved.

Don't burn!

Save our forest

Please utilize the best available forest management science in making a decision regarding this proposed action in the Santa Fe National Forest. The evidence is clear that such cutting and burning practices are antithetical to the outcomes we need locally and globally at this time. Thank you.

We live next to a section of the Carson Forest that was cut about three years ago. The impact on wildlife and surviving trees has been tragic to witness. We must develop alternatives that protect biodiversity and the forest themselves! Our lives depend on it!!

Reducing the number of trees in a desert area prone to wildfires is short sighted just doesn't make sense. Please prepare the Environmental Impact Statement that's required before making any such problematic decisions.

The idea of further deforestation in the already fragile ecosystem around Santa Fe is appalling. Containment fires that kill all the animals within, the spraying of a nuero toxin into the already polluted air (as distinct from a few years ago) is abhorent and truly criminal. WHO IS GAINING FROM THIS DISASTER? What greedy corporate/government executives are making money from this horror??? Surely no conscientious government official would willingly participate in such a disaster!

The effect of the fires controkled or otherwise is devastating. Please rethink your plan.

Further study is needed in order to protect the precipitation that these trees bring to this area.

The carbon monoxide of a fire is a toxic as t he flames-I was effected by the Cerro Grande prescribed??fire.

To begin the burns by igniting around the circumference of an area, and then fire-bombing the interior means horrific death without escape for the wild creatures. Not to mention the stupidity of burning the oxygen-producing trees, drastically poisoning air quality, and depleting Santa Fe’s water supply.

Please stop the assault on nature

Murdering as Forest goes against every Sense of Survival that human animals used to cherish. Have the people who push for this kind of fire suppression gone suicidal?

An EiS assessment seems a common sense first step ...

There is a huge number of species living in the Santa Fe National Forest. Let's study them and learn about them before we decide to cut trees and burn them,and destroy them in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountains of NM.

If the Spring 2019 Pacheco Canyon burn is any indication of their prescribed treatment then serious reconsideration needs to happen. I was out there last week and it looks like a huge failure. The beautiful green forest is singed brown and left endangered to pest infestation and fire! Go out there and see for your self. We parked at Aspen Ranch trailhead and walked across the road and into the forest. Can't see it from the road.

Please reconsider this huge burn!