The Huron-Manistee National Forest is preparing a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on whether or how much to allow hunting with firearms. Here is my input, submitted moments ago.
More at: nrahunterrights.org
Forest Planner,
Huron-Manistee National Forests,
1755 S. Mitchell Street,
Cadillac, MI 49601
Dear Sir or Madam:
Please interpret my position in view of the following background on which it is based:
- I have prepared many Environmental Assessments
- I wrote parts of the Mt. Hood National Forest Plan
- I participated in the Forest Planning teams on the Mt. Hood National Forest and the Tongass National Forest Plans
- I was a team leader on Environmental Impact Statement efforts
- I assisted in preparing Forest Service responses to over 200 appeals to its programs in the Pacific Northwest Region
- I’ve spent my life in the woods as a forester, silviculturist, hunter, and trapper
I am aware of the issue you are addressing with your supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
You are preparing this SDEIS as a result of an absurd lawsuit brought by a selfish late-comer who makes his living suing people, and a biased court of appeals decision that upheld his lawsuit.
This lawsuit and its aftermath are nothing short of cultural warfare against traditional uses of National Forest (public) Land. That it has proceeded on to its current status is tragic and regrettable, if not reprehensible or corrupt. I strongly disagree with the Court’s assertion that firearm hunting is a nonconforming use of these areas merely because hunters occasionally discharge a firearm.
Since I have no choice but to acknowledge the necessity of asserting my position in this matter, I must declare that I support the proposal to continue to allow firearm hunting on all challenged areas as outlined in the Forest’s preferred alternative (Alternative 4). This proposal respects the ecological, cultural and economic importance of hunting to this region and the many decades of harmonious coexistence between firearm hunters and other recreationists on public lands throughout Michigan and across America.
More specifically, I agree with the assessment of the Forest, after consultation with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, that banning firearm hunting on the challenged areas would eliminate the opportunity for hunters in this region to pursue their passion on relatively remote landscapes – an opportunity that can’t be duplicated on other ownerships.
People wonder why the national debt is $13 trillion—this absurd lawsuit and the necessity of responding to it is one big reason.
Sincerely,
ManyMoose, name and address on request SIers just PM me. |
