Last Saturday, on a bitterly cold and snowy day, I attended a rally with 100 other Vermonters at the Vermont headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service to call for a stop to the destructive Telephone Gap logging project.
This letter is presented in the hope that you will communicate its message to our delegation (Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch, Becca Balint) in the U.S. House and Senate.
My concern is the Telephone Gap project plans, primarily in Rutland County, of the Green Mountain National Forest and the public comment period that ends on April 8.
I’m writing to express my dismay at the misinformation again being spread about the Telephone Gap timber project. Timber harvesting on the Green Mountain National Forest is good for Vermont and the environment.
It is widely understood that cutting mature forests is bad for the climate. Last year the public responded with over 1,300 comments against logging and less than 100 in favor. This was a record.
The Green Mountain National Forest’s preliminary environmental assessment for the Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project is complete and available for public review and comment.
This is not just a few tree huggers on the fringes. I believe the proposal struck a chord on deep public concern about climate change and protection of old forests, which keep huge amounts of climate-changing carbon out of the atmosphere.
I am writing to convey my sincere distress over the proposed logging at Telephone Gap.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service invites comments for the proposed Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project located on the Rochester and Middlebury Ranger Districts of the Green Mountain National Forest.
RUTLAND COUNTY — Last Wednesday night, when Green Mountain National Forest officials unveiled the 72,000-acre “Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project,” they talked of many scientific things and promised future public meetings and field trips to explore … (read more)
