An EIS is needed to determine if this is the correct process, and if alternative processes would better benefit the forest.
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Doris Welch
7 years ago
Can't be good for environment and animals.
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Nodiah Brent
7 years ago
Transparency is essential.
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Dorothy Dean
7 years ago
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The previous clearing has been excessive and mistakes have been made that lead to the unintended burning of trees that were intended to be saved. Roads have been created inviting ATV’s and causing more erosion. An EIS should be performed!
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Daryl Stanton
7 years ago
This isn't a proven method to stop wildfires, in fact there's much evidence to the contrary. There's no going back if we do this. Let's fully research and be sure to take the best way forward. While most of the world is planting trees to help with climate change, let's not burn ours down. Such a detriment to the environment, global warming and to our health.
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Rita hogan
7 years ago
We need to conserve trees and animal habitat
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Eduardo Quant
7 years ago
Save it!
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Maryanne Fillier
7 years ago
Save the Santa Fe National Forest
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Jennie Begley
7 years ago
thank you for sharing this and for your efforts. please contact me if I can help
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Dena Holman
7 years ago
The very air we breathe is contingent upon trees.
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Nigel Rudlin
7 years ago
Trees are important for life
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nina zelevansky
7 years ago
Pleasable to e, we must learn to think and deeply investigate, before we act on something that will never be able to be fixed. Our forests, are care for our wildlife, are part of my home in NM. Please lets protect it !
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Karen Shepherd
7 years ago
And, if and when "controlled burns" are scheduled, using chemicals that endanger public health should be re-evaluated! Please!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Burning or cutting 90% of the trees which make Santa Fe one of the most beautiful, unique places in the US is not a "thinning" operation in the name of public safety. It's a clearing which will effect the health of the landscape and the people of Santa Fe for years to come. We live in a changing climate and our methods for protecting ourselves must also protect the earth we leave behind for our children. It is reasonable to request a proper EIS to do as the Forest Service promises - protect the woods and the people.
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Agnes Lau
7 years ago
Removal of 93% of the trees is not a prescription. It is decimation with serious short and long term repercussions. The project proposal without an EIS is suspect. SFNF - please do the right thing. Conduct the EIS and share it with the citizens of Santa Fe and all affected areas so that we have facts and know what we are dealing with.
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Linda Spier
7 years ago
Forests, trees, are an integral, essential part of the water cycle. And the trees roots hold the mountains in place. Destroy the forests...we destroy ourselves, and will leave a barren, rocky, eroded, lifeless, waterless landscape that will never recover in this arid region. Forests must be protected; forests are a priceless, irreplaceable treasure. Shame on the Hubris of those wo/men coming up with this heinous scheme that will destroy the Santa Fe Watershed, and disrupt the entire ecosystem of the sacred Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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John Smallwood
7 years ago
In 2019, it is time that the sane minds take over the USFS. Make it the world's leading ecological preserve. You are still, in 2019, Teddy Roosevelt's logging apparatus, and it is not representative of the individuals in the organization. Why no EIS and why is project information unavailable? Who is gaining while we all are losing?
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Naima Shea
7 years ago
The destruction of over 90% of the trees, particularly using chemicals with known damaging effects to humans as well as animals, insects and birds, amounts to nothing less than a scorched earth policy. We cannot afford to destroy in the name of life anymore. DO AN EIS.
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Jack Lehman
7 years ago
I respectfully request that the Santa Fe National Forest prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that fully complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in regard to the tree cutting and burning program for the scenic 107,000 acre forest on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountains above Santa Fe known as the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed. The EIS must evaluate alternatives that protect roadless areas, wildlife populations, soil, water, and the ecological integrity of the forest using the best available science.
I further request that the Santa Fe National Forest halt all tree clearing projects in the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed until an EIS has been completed and the public fully informed and involved in the process.
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Jonathan Glass
7 years ago
Today SFNF announced that they hope to start a forest fire a few miles east of downtown in a week or two. There may well be a lot of dangerous smoke where I live like there was when they started a similar fire in the fall, but I can take precautions, e.g. leave town. I am most cynical and don't understand the supposed risk management behind what otherwise sounds like exploitation.
An EIS is needed to determine if this is the correct process, and if alternative processes would better benefit the forest.
Can't be good for environment and animals.
Transparency is essential.
The previous clearing has been excessive and mistakes have been made that lead to the unintended burning of trees that were intended to be saved. Roads have been created inviting ATV’s and causing more erosion. An EIS should be performed!
This isn't a proven method to stop wildfires, in fact there's much evidence to the contrary. There's no going back if we do this. Let's fully research and be sure to take the best way forward. While most of the world is planting trees to help with climate change, let's not burn ours down. Such a detriment to the environment, global warming and to our health.
We need to conserve trees and animal habitat
Save it!
Save the Santa Fe National Forest
thank you for sharing this and for your efforts. please contact me if I can help
The very air we breathe is contingent upon trees.
Trees are important for life
Pleasable to e, we must learn to think and deeply investigate, before we act on something that will never be able to be fixed. Our forests, are care for our wildlife, are part of my home in NM. Please lets protect it !
And, if and when "controlled burns" are scheduled, using chemicals that endanger public health should be re-evaluated! Please!
Burning or cutting 90% of the trees which make Santa Fe one of the most beautiful, unique places in the US is not a "thinning" operation in the name of public safety. It's a clearing which will effect the health of the landscape and the people of Santa Fe for years to come. We live in a changing climate and our methods for protecting ourselves must also protect the earth we leave behind for our children. It is reasonable to request a proper EIS to do as the Forest Service promises - protect the woods and the people.
Removal of 93% of the trees is not a prescription. It is decimation with serious short and long term repercussions. The project proposal without an EIS is suspect. SFNF - please do the right thing. Conduct the EIS and share it with the citizens of Santa Fe and all affected areas so that we have facts and know what we are dealing with.
Forests, trees, are an integral, essential part of the water cycle. And the trees roots hold the mountains in place. Destroy the forests...we destroy ourselves, and will leave a barren, rocky, eroded, lifeless, waterless landscape that will never recover in this arid region. Forests must be protected; forests are a priceless, irreplaceable treasure. Shame on the Hubris of those wo/men coming up with this heinous scheme that will destroy the Santa Fe Watershed, and disrupt the entire ecosystem of the sacred Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
In 2019, it is time that the sane minds take over the USFS. Make it the world's leading ecological preserve. You are still, in 2019, Teddy Roosevelt's logging apparatus, and it is not representative of the individuals in the organization. Why no EIS and why is project information unavailable? Who is gaining while we all are losing?
The destruction of over 90% of the trees, particularly using chemicals with known damaging effects to humans as well as animals, insects and birds, amounts to nothing less than a scorched earth policy. We cannot afford to destroy in the name of life anymore. DO AN EIS.
I respectfully request that the Santa Fe National Forest prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that fully complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in regard to the tree cutting and burning program for the scenic 107,000 acre forest on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountains above Santa Fe known as the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed. The EIS must evaluate alternatives that protect roadless areas, wildlife populations, soil, water, and the ecological integrity of the forest using the best available science. I further request that the Santa Fe National Forest halt all tree clearing projects in the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed until an EIS has been completed and the public fully informed and involved in the process.
Today SFNF announced that they hope to start a forest fire a few miles east of downtown in a week or two. There may well be a lot of dangerous smoke where I live like there was when they started a similar fire in the fall, but I can take precautions, e.g. leave town. I am most cynical and don't understand the supposed risk management behind what otherwise sounds like exploitation.