Gather and disseminate information
- Provide an easy-to-access repository public information
- Collect data for publication and analysis
- Use FOIA requests to better understand behind-the-scene government actions and rationale
Encourage public participation
- Notification of meetings and events
- Publish decision-makers’ contact information for public comment
- Organize community response
Intervene in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process
- Insist that the Forest Service consider significant environmental impacts
- Press for a fully informed Forest Service decision
- Act as a watchdog to ensure compliance
Advocate for responsibility in government
- Stop sprawl
- Protect wildlife habitat
- Defend community values
After many letters with photos of a fox matching pair sleeping under our window, moose pairs, yound elk, mule deer and countless birds in the small virgin forest beside our house on Henley Road, with no answers to specific questions, Ms. Hamilton stomps right over the lives of the animals and people who probably, like us, for many years carefully budgeted and saved to have just a few weeks a year in this magnificent place.
When we first heard of the ill concieved plan to sell many acres of land on the already developed part of town–on the ROUTE to the park area she is supposed to be serving and destroy the environment on the residential side of town, leaving an appropriate flat building site for a hillside site in the forest, I thought my great- grand father in Montana, a founder of the Forest Service, would be appauled!!
Who are these people who have become such arrogant, selfish beaurocrats who have completely lost the mission of the “Forest Service,” which pays them and the people who treasure the land they are supposed to be preserving.
Does she need business expertise to help her figure this out??? She obviously has no skills for managing land or money—or fear of losing her job.
Sincerely,
Curtis and Carol Kayem
485 Henley Road