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Summer 2006 Newsletter Forest News Georgia ForestWatch Quarterly Newsletter ..... Summer 2006 Scenic/Wilderness bill introduced By Wayne Jenkins : Executive Director In This Issue From the Director ................ 2 Two Republican Congressmen negotiation with Rep. Deal and the Forest from north Georgia introduced Service,” Pigott said. “It will provide Whitewater Boaters Try legislation June 15 to provide special long-term protection for this area from End-Run Around Upper protection for nearly 22,000 acres of the additional road-building and unnecessary Chattooga Analysis ............. 4 Chattahoochee National Forest. H. R. logging, and will prove economically 5612 is sponsored by Reps. Nathan Deal benefi cial to Gilmer and the entire north Forest Service Contacts ........ 5 (R-10) and Charles Norwood (R-9). Th e Georgia region.” bill, if enacted, will provide increased “We applaud Rep. Deal’s dedication Save the Dates: Georgia protective measures for the 13,382- to protecting downstream water supplies ForestWatch Fall Retreat ...... 6 acre Mountaintown, the state’s largest with this bill,” says David Govus, a local inventoried roadless area, and add 8,448 hunter and fi sherman. Th e headwaters acres to existing wilderness areas. of one of Georgia’s premier trout streams, National Forest Land Sales Rep. Deal spearheaded the Mountaintown Creek, originate in the Idea Stopped ... Or Not? ..... 7 legislative eff ort in response to local proposed scenic area. citizens, business owners and political Pigott also credited Georgia Restoration Projects in the leadership in Gilmer County. By ForestWatch with providing expert Lake Russell WMA ............... 8 establishing the Mountaintown Creek support to Friends of Mountaintown in Scenic Area, the bill will protect more connection with technical aspects of the Storms Did Not Deter than 13,000 acres of beautiful, wild Deal-Norwood proposal. “ForestWatch Successful Plant Sale ......... 10 and remote national forest lands in the is pleased to assist local communities Cohutta Mountains northwest of Ellijay, with their eff orts to protect our last large Native Plant Sale and Wild Georgia. forested areas,” said Wayne Jenkins, & Woolly Wine Tasting “Th e bill’s provisions are more executive director of Georgia ForestWatch. Recognition List ................. 11 stringent than those outlined in current “Many of us have moved to these U.S. Forest Service management plans beautiful mountains in order to be near The Chinese Connecton ..... 12 and are deemed vital to safeguarding this and use these special places for traditional pristine area for generations to come,” activities such as hunting, fi shing and What is Open Woodland? . 13 said Beth Pigott, a member of Friends hiking. As the fl oodtide of development of Mountaintown, the local, grassroots sweeps over our region, having Forest Service Activities community organization in Gilmer protected places like Mountaintown for in the Midwest .................. 15 County that has been working on the providing for the recreational needs of Mountaintown protection measures for our people, protecting the headwater Roadless Area Update: the past two years. streams supplying our drinking water Time for Sonny to Act! ...... 18 “Th is bill represents the culmination and maintaining special natural areas of many hours of hard work and (Continued on page 5) Georgia ForestWatch From The Director Collaborative Forest Management? agency. We suggest that the leadership on the Chattahoochee Recently, the leadership of the Chattahoochee National follow this lead. Forest initiated a public process for “collaboratively” Th ough encouraged that engaging the public in planning the next fi ve years of forest the Forest Service is engaged in vegetation management. ForestWatch has been requesting a public process, we have grave such a process since shortly after the implementation of concerns about several aspects the new Land & Resource Management Plan in 2004, of the ongoing, fast-track eff ort and we are pleased to see this bold leap by the agency in Georgia. A “collaborative” into the potentially diffi cult and complex arena of process as defi ned by Webster collaborative decision making. Th e process covers two entails “working together” and/or Wayne Jenkins districts on both the western and eastern portions of the “to cooperate in an undertaking.” forest; the Armuchee/Cohutta districts on the west and Despite an upfront commitment to a “collaborative process” the Tallulah/Chattooga districts on the east. Two initial things appear to be moving along at a rapid pace set only by the public meetings were held to explain the reasons for various agency. We understand the government’s desire to get to work management needs in these zones of the national forest. to implement the not-so-new management plan (two years Th e informational meetings were followed by several old in January of this year,) but know that the many proposals put forth for vegetation fi eld trips to review and Photo by Honor Woodard discuss various vegetation management in the two zones management “opportunities” are complex and potentially being proposed by the U.S. controversial. It simply will Forest Service. ForestWatch take time for the various groups staff , members and district and the public to grasp what leaders have participated in all exactly the agency wants to meetings and fi eld visits and achieve on the people’s forests. appreciate the opportunity to Another obvious problem is be involved. the depth of representation at Th is “collaborative these meetings. For whatever process” has been touted by reason, very few people are the agency as similar to one attending the meetings or fi eld conducted on the Bankhead trips. Lastly and perhaps most National Forest in Alabama. importantly, it will take time We would point out that Forest Service fi eld outing and interested forestwatchers to account for the history of the process in Alabama took past Forest Service actions, the two years to fl esh out, with many concerned partners, and lack of communication, the acrimony engendered by specifi c produced a Restoration Environmental Impact Statement projects, the lawsuits and appeals and a forest management for guiding the management on the Bankhead for the legacy that left thousands of acres of cut-over forest stands 10-15 year life of that forest plan. Two professional hammered by the SouthernPine Beetle. It will take time, Forest Service facilitators assisted in this process after patience and much talking and listening on all sides to create fi ve years of extremely contentious wrangling a truly successful “collaborative” outcome for the sake of our amongst various interest groups and the forests. Summer 2006 Th e vegetation management proposals brought forward by the Forest Service run the gamut from thinning of over Contact Information stocked loblolly pine stands, prone to Southern Pine Beetle Georgia ForestWatch damage, to the creation of high elevation, early successional habitat (that is, clear cuts,) for species that some say are www.gafw.org dependent on that type of environment to the logging of thousands of acres of mature trees to create canopy gaps. 15 Tower Rd. Ellijay, GA 30540 One of the obvious common threads connecting much of 706-635-TREE (8733) these management proposals is the widespread, repeated use of prescribed fi re. It appears that our forest managers have Georgia ForestWatch is a 501(c)3 come 180 degrees from the days of Smokey the Bear and Nonprofi t educational corporation. suppression of fi re, around to a new vision of “let it burn” Forest News edited by Wayne Jenkins or more accurately, “let us burn it.” Understand we are not Layout by Kathy Herrygers and Eleanor Th ompson talking about forest replacement fi res here but mostly ground fi re used to select out certain unwanted tree species, to burn STAFF Wayne Jenkins, Executive Director off “fuels” accumulated in the under-story and to thin and Kathy Herrygers, Offi ce Manager suppress unwanted vegetation. We have stated in the past, Shawn White, Forest Ecologist our analysis and opposition to indiscriminate burning of our southern Appalachian forests, but the desire to burn BOARD MEMBERS ADVISORS has swept across our managers plans and there is money in Joe Gatins, President Marshall Burke Peg Griffi th, Secretary Butch Clay Washington to fuel it. We are not convinced that most of our Sarah Linn, Treasurer Martha Ezzard forest communities require fi re to be healthy and believe that Claudia Burgess John Fritchie the forest types, soils and climatic conditions indicate that Kees de Vente Bob Kibler natural fi re has a minor role to play across our predominantly Andy Edwards wet region. We, of course, support the use of fi re for those David Govus Ida Long forest community types that require fi re and have been James Sullivan pushing for burns in specifi c areas such as the restoration Charles Seabrook burns for smooth conefl ower on the Chattooga district, covered on page 8. Th e maintenance of table mountain and DISTRICT LEADERS pitch pine and perhaps long leaf pine in a few sites on the Armuchee Ranger District: southern Armuchee Ridges present as possible opportunities Bob Smiles 404-259-4947 for the appropriate use of fi re but to allow available tax Brasstown Ranger District: dollars to be used on forest acres where fi red is not needed is Howard Markel 770-781-5418 bad management and policy. Dennis Stansell 706-747-5892 Th is is but one example of our concern about new management direction and as we learn more about the Chattooga Ranger District: details and specifi c locations for these various projects we Wally Warren 706-778-2635 Dudley Sisk 706-754-0955 will be taking a hard look and commenting on the process, proposals, scope and goals and bringing you the story. We Cohutta Ranger District: will strive to make these complex issues understandable and Wayne Jenkins 706-276-7913 hope you will let us and the forest service know how you David Govus 706-276-2512 feel concerning this “new” management of your forests.
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