Comments on: The Facts http://protecttheputtputt.com a community action organization Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brett Schneider http://protecttheputtputt.com/the-facts/#comment-24 Brett Schneider Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:03:27 +0000 http://protecttheputtputt.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-24 I agree that what the Forest Service is proposing here is a little disturbing, and seems a little drastic. As a mountain biker and an all around outdoor enthusiast, i am worried about the encroachment of development into the Putt-Putt/Cache Creek area trail network. However, as a Forest Service employee, i understand that the current employee housing situation needs help. There is need for more and better housing for employees in Jackson. There are many Forest Service employees here in Jackson - community members - doing great things on our public lands every single day. I hope the Forest Service and the rest of the community will have them in their best interests. Lets start talking about solutions and alternatives here. I agree that what the Forest Service is proposing here is a little disturbing, and seems a little drastic. As a mountain biker and an all around outdoor enthusiast, i am worried about the encroachment of development into the Putt-Putt/Cache Creek area trail network. However, as a Forest Service employee, i understand that the current employee housing situation needs help. There is need for more and better housing for employees in Jackson. There are many Forest Service employees here in Jackson – community members – doing great things on our public lands every single day. I hope the Forest Service and the rest of the community will have them in their best interests. Lets start talking about solutions and alternatives here.

]]> By: Bob Stellwagen http://protecttheputtputt.com/the-facts/#comment-13 Bob Stellwagen Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:39:06 +0000 http://protecttheputtputt.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-13 Like many others in Jackson, I am concerned about the Forest Service proposal for building 26 additional housing units on the Nelson Drive site where 10 units are currently located. The many negative aspects of such action include additional crowding of the neighborhood, increased traffic congestion in East Jackson, effects on the Putt-Putt trail, reduction of open space, and harmful influences on wildlife. Robert H. Stellwagen Like many others in Jackson, I am concerned about the Forest Service proposal for building 26 additional housing units on the Nelson Drive site where 10 units are currently located. The many negative aspects of such action include additional crowding of the neighborhood, increased traffic congestion in East Jackson, effects on the Putt-Putt trail, reduction of open space, and harmful influences on wildlife.

Robert H. Stellwagen

]]> By: Elise M. Prayzich http://protecttheputtputt.com/the-facts/#comment-8 Elise M. Prayzich Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:21:14 +0000 http://protecttheputtputt.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-8 The Bridger-Teton National Forest Supervisor is proposing to SELL OFF a substantial portion of the land it owns just inside the Town of Jackson limits in order to replace an Administrative Building. This sale will thus leave little land for Forest Service Housing at that location, thrusting it onto lands containing 10 Forest Service housing units in East Jackson.. This will increase that load by 260%! They wish to push out into undisturbed land, as well as increase density on the present site. As residents of this beautiful Valley, we find this an abhorrent situation! And as direct neighbors to these Forest Service lands, we are extremely concerned about the loss of open space as well as the degradation of the availability to wildlife which enjoys the area, and which we in turn enjoy – an enrichment to our lives every day. This should not be happening on any Forest Service lands! The provision to sell off Administrative Lands, a Bush-era policy, is no longer extant, but this Forest Service unit has squeezed in under the wire, and is thus proposing maneuvers that are no long available – gratefully! – to any other Forest Service area. We feel this should also no long apply to the Bridger-Teton Forest inasmuch as it was so quickly slipped in by a hair’s breath! The administrators have missed chances to apply for monies to replace their Administrative Building, and are now having to “sell their seed corn” to support activities and structures that should have been planned for long ago – and were not. We hope that there is an alternate and creative way to avoid this unfortunate sale, and the resultant 260% increase in density in housing on undisturbed lands. Elise M. Prayzich The Bridger-Teton National Forest Supervisor is proposing to SELL OFF a substantial portion of the land it owns just inside the Town of Jackson limits in order to replace an Administrative Building. This sale will thus leave little land for Forest Service Housing at that location, thrusting it onto lands containing 10 Forest Service housing units in East Jackson.. This will increase that load by 260%! They wish to push out into undisturbed land, as well as increase density on the present site.

As residents of this beautiful Valley, we find this an abhorrent situation! And as direct neighbors to these Forest Service lands, we are extremely concerned about the loss of open space as well as the degradation of the availability to wildlife which enjoys the area, and which we in turn enjoy – an enrichment to our lives every day. This should not be happening on any Forest Service lands!

The provision to sell off Administrative Lands, a Bush-era policy, is no longer extant, but this Forest Service unit has squeezed in under the wire, and is thus proposing maneuvers that are no long available – gratefully! – to any other Forest Service area. We feel this should also no long apply to the Bridger-Teton Forest inasmuch as it was so quickly slipped in by a hair’s breath!

The administrators have missed chances to apply for monies to replace their Administrative Building, and are now having to “sell their seed corn” to support activities and structures that should have been planned for long ago – and were not.

We hope that there is an alternate and creative way to avoid this unfortunate sale, and the resultant 260% increase in density in housing on undisturbed lands.

Elise M. Prayzich

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