JANUARY 21, 2016 COMMUNITY MEETING ATTENDEE COMMENTS Who Question/Comment Response Dan D.: We will address. Met w/ FLT this week to discuss how to address issue. Separate from salvage. We have started, but plan to get it done asap. Snow on the grounds make it infeasible Mike Frasier What about hazard trees? Needs to happen this year. right now. It's next on our to do list. Dan D.: We've been sued on all our logging projects. When we get sued, it takes 1-2 extra years to get logs out. If we did that for burnt trees, they'd be rotten in that time. The suits come from Bobby Bogs What are the lawsuits you keep talking about? places outside the community. Dan D.: No pine, nothing past summer and fall. The mills don't want too much burned logs, it Scott Petroff What do the mills want as far as timber? saturates the market. Bobby Bogs Can you sue the public back? Dan D.: No, we can't, but other entities and public can. If the fire burned so intensely that it's a moonscape, the owl habitat is gone, why can't we go in and log those areas? Can (This question was not answered; it was immediately followed by other questions and was not Mike Frasier the FS change critical habitat designations? addressed) Dan D.: Mad River hasn't been very high on the project priority list. We're trying to focus on smaller projects to get more projects done faster w/ a CE. With community support and Mike Frasier We need to get the burn the burnt wood out. collaborations, like w/ the TCC, we can get more projects done. There's over 700 miles of level 2 & 3 roads, a lot of area to Dan D.: Where do we go next? Burned areas, then we're looking at the Ruth community; 23 can Larry Glass work in. be a fuel break w/ 48, which zig-zags up the mountain. Hettenshaw also is on the list. Dan D.: We're going to be having more meetings about where to go next and I'll need your input. I'm disgusted that the collaborative is deciding on what Nancy C.: We want to work w/ the community to collaborate and involve stakeholds in the Mike Frasier projects to do instead of the Forest Service. That's your job! process. Dan D.: I'm okay being sued if we're doing the right thing. I would much rather have involvement, input, and community support. That's how we get project support. The only value our one resource [trees] has is while it's on Dan D.: We failed by not involving community before so that's why we're trying to do that now. Mike Frasier fire. Community has weight in the forest plan. Nancy C.: If we have community support, that holds a lot of weight, we need letters from you guys showing your support for certain projects. Dan D.: The collaborative has helped us get a priority spot on the project priority list. We're going to move forward on another project right away. We're going to focus on the rest of the Mike Frasier This is a start, but what about the rest of the 250k acres? burned area next [hazard trees], then other areas. Jarrett Willburn When will this project be out for bid? Dan D.: Early summer, no later than June Lenore C: Happy Flat will be offered soon, we also have Kelsey being offered in February, which is 7 million board feet. How does the community feel about shaded fuel breaks? A Joseph Bower 30k acre project in Trinity County? Bud Gillman: I think it is great. Mike Frasier: Fuel breaks, some are a joke- useless. Dan D.: WKRP has been designing it's projects by taking the public in the field. We want to hit the glades, woodlands, plantations- whatever the geography of an area calls for. There is a market for pine and fir, for firewood, like in southern California. Really? Well then, I would like suggest you get a person for marketing pine and fir to areas outside our community. To Dan D.: That's actually a good idea. That could bring in the attention and money to get things Mike Frasier find the people that can use it. done. Joseph Bower: There were mills that were set up specifically for that purpose, to take the small stuff less than 10" diameter, but the Forest Service couldn't supply them and they folded. Dan D.: It we could consistently get a product out, that's what we want to do. I like the idea of marketing. I just found out about this meeting today. You need to work on getting the word out. Next time you can advertise meetings in the Mad Buck (everyone local receives that paper), facebook community page, EMS STAR web page (Brooke: 707-574-6616 x 109), Danene Bates at the clinic (x213), and Sandy Borden the Senior luncheon (3rd Friday of each month).