Even with the long overdue recognition of forest lands’ importance in addressing climate change, forest management is stuck in the past.

If ever there were a time to rush through a NEPA process, it sure isn’t now.

Exercise your right and comment on the proposal to revise the Council for Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations that seek to eviscerate this bedrock environmental law, severely restricting public input in federal decision-making processes and narrowing the scope of projects that get reviewed.

In early March of 2019, six eastern Oregon counties submitted a petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the Maheur and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests be exempted from the 2005 Travel Planning Rule. In the meantime, every other National Forest in the country has completed the process.