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Wednesday,
April 14th
6:30 to 9:30 pm
Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road
Sunday,
April 18
1 to 4 pm
Ashland Public Library,
Gresham Room
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On March 26, the Rogue-Siskiyou
National Forest published new analysis
to justify expanding the ski area on Mount Ashland despite the 2007
ruling by a federal appeals court that the plan violates environmental
laws
intended to protect water quality and endangered animals.
The expansion would clear-cut 70
football fields of old
growth forest and trigger landslides that can pollute Ashland’s
water with sediment. Expansion also would intrude
on the wild
McDonald Peak Roadless Area and displace Pacific fisher, an endangered
forest
carnivore.
This workshop will provide
resources for effective citizen
action to protect the Ashland Watershed from industrial development.
Please bring your questions and
enthusiasm, and plan to
spend a couple hours working with neighbors to stop the expansion.
Comments are due to the Forest Service by Friday, May 6. The
DSEIS is available here: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/projects/mtashlandski/dseis.pdf
Send comments to the Forest Service on
the DSEIS:
Steve Johnson, Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
645 Washington Street, Ashland, Oregon, 97520,
Telephone (541) 552–2900; FAX (541) 552–2922. |
Tracy Harding
541-488-7884 tracydharding@gmail.com |
