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Maggie Jones can't make up her mind. She is considering enrolling her property in the state's Managed Forest Law program, which gives participants a hefty tax break in exchange for their commitment to produce merchantable timber. "The MFL plan is written," says Jones, "but it's sitting unsigned. Surprisingly, given her own ambivalence, Jones wishes other forest owners would enroll in the MFL program because participants receive guidance from professional foresters. She's seen too many owners make poor management choices: "They get a knock on the door from a logger who says, 'You've got $18,000 worth of trees on your land.' And the owner says, Okay, cut it down.'" The sole goal of [the prior tax laws] was the production of forest products," says Carol Nielson, manager of the Department...
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In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, notice is hereby given that the Forest Service, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, will prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement to disclose the environmental consequences of the proposed Gore Creek Restoration Project (Gore Creek). The Gore Creek analysis area encompasses approximately 76,000 acres of National Forest System (NFS) land with 6,900 acres of interspersed private land. The Yampa Ranger District is proposing a variety of actions in the Gore Pass area to improve watershed health and reduce potential erosion issues. Timber harvesting that took place outside of previously analyzed timber sale boundaries has resulted in impacts that had not been previously analyzed. Before rehabilitation can be completed, a new an...
... will be the effects of disposing of merchantable timber and other vegetation resulting from emergen...
