The BLM has officially confirmed that the Juniper thinning program will now mandate the preservation of three trees per acre in clustered arrangements as requested. We have secured a formal commitment to adjust site operations to protect these designated zones. I will continue to observe the field work to ensure …
May 26, 2017
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens and residents who live nearby BLM and State lands in Navajo County. We are deeply concerned about the clear cutting going on under the Juniper thinning program.
Our objections include the following:
- A letter from BLM states that pinyons would not be removed. In fact, all types of trees are being removed from the impacted areas.
- Private roads have been damaged by heavy equipment.
- Local residents are endangered while driving on primitive, county dirt roads with unpredictable semi-truck traffic. Two semis have had accidents in the last year while transporting the removed trees.
- The loads are not being secured until right before the trucks reach paved roads. Driving behind a truck is dangerous due to spilling and flying debris.
- The environmental assessment (EA) states that very little dust will be created by the project. We have seen huge dust storms in the areas where the trees were removed.
- The EA does not address the contribution of trees to the oxygen in our air or the reduction of carbon in our environment.
- The BLM is only required to preserve between zero and three juniper trees per acre.
We request that the BLM preserve the maximum number of trees, three per affected acre. We request that these preserved trees be situated in a cluster near the point where four adjacent acres meet. This leaves a cluster of twelve trees for the purpose of maximizing wildlife habitat.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 1, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2017
February 21, 2017
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to maintain this momentum to ensure the Bureau of Land Management acknowledges our formal request. Please direct this petition to three residents in Navajo County today so we can hit this threshold before our next meeting with the district office.
101 Comments
I find it sad and disturbing suddenly these trees are invasive, but cattle grazing land is totally natural in Arizona. Makes zero sense except for deception and greed!
Junipers are very slow-growing. Save every tree over 150 years of age, in addition to intact clusters of trees within the grasslands. The trees are drought-tolerant, they moderate our climate, and contribute oxygen to the atmosphere. It is important to supervise the contractors.
My family lives in this area.The impact of the tree removal will affect my children, spouses and their children for generations to come. Research articles about the 'Dirty 30's' if you think acreage can survive, sustain let alone flourish without trees.
I live on land bordering BLM where they remove thousands of trees and it's created more dust wind and destroyed what was once a breathtaking view and turned it into an eye sore please stop removing trees
We bought property next to BLM land so we had area to explore and watch wildlife! This will disturb the land and the wildlife. Less protection for them and less area for hunters to hide and hunt to feed their family's. To top it all off is how long will it drive the wildlife away till they feel it safe to return. We are against losing any of the trees!
It's important to stop harvesting of our relatives the trees clear cutting is happening soon the air will be worse we need to think of the future what we are leaving for them at this rate they will have nothing no air to breathe to find shelter on a Rainey day things we enjoy they will never know if we don't stop. The dollar won't matter if we are dying from lack of air the trees are dying from pollution. A tree timing company came around and trimester oaks they were reaching out to each other i saw and felt the sadness then they started to die. Please stop killing for the future
We live near BLM land in Lane County Oregon and have the same concerns and would like to support every effort to find new solutions both here and in all BLM lands in the United States. It is time for change.
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The BLM has officially confirmed that the Juniper thinning program will now mandate the preservation of three trees per acre in clustered arrangements as requested. We have secured a formal commitment to adjust site operations to protect these designated zones. I will continue to observe the field work to ensure …
May 26, 2017
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens and residents who live nearby BLM and State lands in Navajo County. We are deeply concerned about the clear cutting going on under the Juniper thinning program.
Our objections include the following:
- A letter from BLM states that pinyons would not be removed. In fact, all types of trees are being removed from the impacted areas.
- Private roads have been damaged by heavy equipment.
- Local residents are endangered while driving on primitive, county dirt roads with unpredictable semi-truck traffic. Two semis have had accidents in the last year while transporting the removed trees.
- The loads are not being secured until right before the trucks reach paved roads. Driving behind a truck is dangerous due to spilling and flying debris.
- The environmental assessment (EA) states that very little dust will be created by the project. We have seen huge dust storms in the areas where the trees were removed.
- The EA does not address the contribution of trees to the oxygen in our air or the reduction of carbon in our environment.
- The BLM is only required to preserve between zero and three juniper trees per acre.
We request that the BLM preserve the maximum number of trees, three per affected acre. We request that these preserved trees be situated in a cluster near the point where four adjacent acres meet. This leaves a cluster of twelve trees for the purpose of maximizing wildlife habitat.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 1, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2017
February 21, 2017
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to maintain this momentum to ensure the Bureau of Land Management acknowledges our formal request. Please direct this petition to three residents in Navajo County today so we can hit this threshold before our next meeting with the district office.
101 Comments
I'm just wondering, did they obtain permissions to drive such heavy equipment on these private dirt roads? And is it not their responsibilities to remove the matter in a safe way? Not fully securing the particles they have stored away in the back of the truck until reaching surface streets is a big time no no!
I find it sad and disturbing suddenly these trees are invasive, but cattle grazing land is totally natural in Arizona. Makes zero sense except for deception and greed!
Junipers are very slow-growing. Save every tree over 150 years of age, in addition to intact clusters of trees within the grasslands. The trees are drought-tolerant, they moderate our climate, and contribute oxygen to the atmosphere. It is important to supervise the contractors.
My family lives in this area.The impact of the tree removal will affect my children, spouses and their children for generations to come. Research articles about the 'Dirty 30's' if you think acreage can survive, sustain let alone flourish without trees.
I live on land bordering BLM where they remove thousands of trees and it's created more dust wind and destroyed what was once a breathtaking view and turned it into an eye sore please stop removing trees
We bought property next to BLM land so we had area to explore and watch wildlife! This will disturb the land and the wildlife. Less protection for them and less area for hunters to hide and hunt to feed their family's. To top it all off is how long will it drive the wildlife away till they feel it safe to return. We are against losing any of the trees!
It's important to stop harvesting of our relatives the trees clear cutting is happening soon the air will be worse we need to think of the future what we are leaving for them at this rate they will have nothing no air to breathe to find shelter on a Rainey day things we enjoy they will never know if we don't stop. The dollar won't matter if we are dying from lack of air the trees are dying from pollution. A tree timing company came around and trimester oaks they were reaching out to each other i saw and felt the sadness then they started to die. Please stop killing for the future
We live near BLM land in Lane County Oregon and have the same concerns and would like to support every effort to find new solutions both here and in all BLM lands in the United States. It is time for change.
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I'm just wondering, did they obtain permissions to drive such heavy equipment on these private dirt roads? And is it not their responsibilities to remove the matter in a safe way? Not fully securing the particles they have stored away in the back of the truck until reaching surface streets is a big time no no!