Orofino, ID: What happened to the basic purpose of the Forest Service where it states they are to sustain the forest and economics of timber-dependent communities?
Both the Forest Service and the BLM are multiple-use agencies for which management priorities include meeting people’s needs for uses, products, services, and values from both forests and rangelands, within the limits of ecological integrity, health, and diversity. The alternatives proposed in the Draft EISs contain direction regarding livestock management on public lands; a comparison of the alternatives that shows general levels of various rangeland activities by cluster is presented on Table 3-11. (Use UCRB map 2-33, Eastside map 2-48 to see which range cluster your community is in.) Our ability is limited to predict exact effects of the project on any particular local community because of the broad nature of the proposed strategies. Grazing is not being eliminated by direction in these Draft EISs. Livestock grazing will be changed however, to permit achievement of the objectives and standards. Question #52 talks about ranching and whether or not ranching will remain “a viable busin
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