Posts Tagged ‘national forest’
Statement from Appalachian Voices on Biden Administration request for $98 billion in disaster funding
Today, the Biden administration sent a request to Congress for $98 billion in supplemental disaster funding to recover from Hurricane Helene, as well as Hurricane Milton and other disasters across the country since 2022.
Read MoreTrump administration rams through final Forest Service analysis of controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline
After almost 8,000 people called on the U.S. Forest Service this fall to prevent the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline from cutting through public land in Virginia, the agency today issued a final report supporting changes to its own environmental standards to accommodate the project. The agency’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement confirms its plan to…
Read MoreAlmost 8,000 call on federal agency to not allow the Mountain Valley Pipeline to cut through public forest land in Virginia
CONTACT: Russell Chisholm, Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition, russell.powhr@gmail.com, 540-404-2727 Jessica Sims, Appalachian Voices, jessica@appvoices.org, 804-356-1228 With the close of a public comment period yesterday, the U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1,800 personal comments and approximately 6,000 comments through organizational petitions from groups urging the agency to drop its plans to allow…
Read MoreWhere Does Your Forest Stand with the Plan?
A summary of where each national forest in Central and Southern Appalachia is in the forest planning process.
Read MoreUSFS to hold open houses on North Carolina Forest Plan revisions
This summer, the U.S. Forest Service will host a series of open houses in western North Carolina as part of its 15-year planning process for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests.
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