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Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on September 24, 2021

Preparation of a table to help RGVBB Re: forest Planning

September 1, 2021

Key Issue: Landscape Planning (Forest Plans, RMPs, TMPs, etc.)
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Key Partners: RGVBB, Center for Biological Diversity and NMWild

Short Description of Activity

Here is the 5 NM forest plans table I created with as many links, etc. as I could find.
Comments and Objections for NM Forest Plans and EIS’s
August – 2021
Prepared by
Susan Ostlie – Rio Grande Valley Broadband of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Forest – Draft or Final version
Comment/Objection timeline
Links to website
Links to previous comments
Meeting Dates: – zoom
Who has standing to Comment/Object
Lincoln NF – Draft EIS and Draft Forest Plan
August 6, 2021, until November 5, 2021.
Hard copies of the draft land management plan are available at the Lincoln National Forest Supervisor’s Office in Alamogordo and all district offices.

Note: The virtual Public Meeting is a user friendly link that has more links to many locations in the documents! See next column >
information about how to comment are available at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=45148.

https://www.virtualpublicmeeting.com/lincoln-national-forest-land-management-plan-revision

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/lincoln/landmanagement/planning/?cid=STELPRD3814307

? – Not sure if it is in this draft.
Other info: The draft land management plan preserves the two existing designated wildernesses (83,252 acres or 7.5 percent of the forest), and 12 inventoried roadless areas (176,900 acres or 16 percent of the forest); and the preferred alternative recommends 21 new wilderness areas (40,500 acres or 4 percent of the forest) This includes one wilderness study area (21,300 acre).The draft land management plan protects significant cave systems with two proposed management areas. The backcountry alternative has 402,000 acres of recommended wilderness! A significant difference!
-Sept. 22, 2021 – 4:00 PM
-Sept. 29, 2021 – 2:00 PM
-Oct. 12, 2021
– 4:00 PM To register to attend the public meet visit https://empsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4jbcPSTPSdGsxIdWnCuOkA.

Susan O, Linda S, anyone else, also. You don’t need standing to comment on the DEIS and Draft Forest Plan.

(You only need standing to comment if it is a Final EIS and Final Forest Plan…)
Carson NF – Final Forest Plan/FEIS
(60 Days starting this fall?)
These final documents are being posted prior to the start of the objection filing period to provide additional time for public review/ familiarization. We are not soliciting objections at this time.
(https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/carsonforestplan).
?- contact Peter Rich, Forest Planner at (575) 758-6200 or peter.rich@usda.gov.
NOTE:
There is a document in the FEIS that responds to all the previously submitted comments.
More information about the objection process and how to file an objection will be sent to all commenters, published in the Taos News, published in the Federal Register, and posted on the Carson National Forest planning website.
Susan O, others?
Cibola NF – Final Forest Plan/FEIS
The release of the revised Forest Plan (expected September 2nd) initiates a 60-day administrative review period—also known as the objection process.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/cibola/landmanagement/planning/?cid=FSEPRD932998
NOTE:
There should be a document in the FEIS that responds to all the previously submitted comments.

None yet?
(Click on text below and a link should appear.)
Land Management Plan (Forest Plan), Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), draft Record of Decision
Susan O, Linda S, Virginia S, Sue G?, others?
Santa Fe NF – Final Forest FEIS
(60 days?)
We are posting the final documents prior to the start of the objection filing period to provide additional time for public review. We are not soliciting objections at this time.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/santafe/landmanagement/planning/?cid=stelprd3791442
There should be a document in the FEIS that responds to all the previously submitted comments.
Related documents on the website:(click on text and a link should appear.)
Summary of changes between draft and final plan
Three-Forest Consistency Guide
USFWS Biological Opinion for Land Management Plan Revision

None yet?
Susan O, Linda S?, Virginia S, Sue G?, others?
Gila NF – Draft
No info available at this time.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/gila/home/?cid=STELPRD3828671
NOTE:
There should be a document in the FEIS that responds to all the previously submitted comments, when the FEIS is issued. It may also be available somewhere in the DEIS. Look in the chapter listings for the pages.

None announced yet.
Susan O, Linda S, Virginia S, Sue G?, others?

I will update this table for everyone as I get new information from each of the forests. You can send me input if you have more information to add to the chart. I am setting the editing options on this table to be for suggestions only, but you can add or take out your name in the last column if I didn’t accurately list who had made comments on the different forests. It helps to know what to look for when we write comments or objections.

I would also really appreciate any help you can give me in composing comments or objections to the different forests, so let me know if you are willing to work on this. We can do this at my home, or maybe at a library, although I don’t think the main library will have any hard copies of the documents available. They only seem to be at the Forest Supervisor’s offices and maybe at the District Ranger stations. We are on the final stretch here, so I am hoping we don’t drop the ball this late in the game.

Thanks, Susan Ostlie and Linda Starr – Your friendly local RGVBB co-leaders! susanostlie@yahoo.com (C) 505-228-5666 and lstarr509@gmail.com.

Reflection/Evaluation

I update it at least once every week. I am slowly learning to use google Docs more effectively. Oops – copying and pasting it threw out all the formatting and workable links, I think. I will try to do it as an attachment instead. Well, an attachment didn’t work either. It’s a google doc and not a jpeg, but the file size is 6.7 MB, and the attachments are limited to 1 MB. Not very big? I’m disappointed, because I am around of it. I can also send it to the national office separately, and let you all put it into this report. Live and Learn.
Feedback from other Broads is positive, but I must get together a few people in early October to do objections and comments, depending on which is required.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QX8DFiFF_AxI07OCx9pTc-YWRVz5lTY-rmVy9UTSiI/edit?usp=sharing
So maybe this link will work?