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Bailey
Harrington
Higgins
Hubbart
Jirak
Taylor
Bull
Smart & Wright
Walden
Bailey - prelim
Strittholt - prelim

Comments and Analysis on the Management Plan and EIR

CDF Report on Public Comments

On August 6, CDF reported to the Board of Forestry on the public comments received and the status of responses to these comments. In a word, the response was overwhelming!

CDF received 4800 comments, 350 of which contained distinct individual comments requiring detailed responses. 

See details of the CDF report to the Board of Forestry.

Selected Expert EIR Comments

Below are links to the complete text of comments from a sampling of experts.  Many of these comments are in "pdf" format, which require an Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you download pdf files and unable to read them, you can download a free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Comments by:

Kathy Bailey,  recently retired Chair of the Sierra Club Forest Conservation Committee.

Paul Carroll, legal counsel to the Campaign.

Jim Harrington, concerned citizen (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Patrick Higgins, consulting fisheries biologist (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Lori Hubbart, Chapter President, Dorothy King Young Chapter, California Native Plant Society

Greg Jirak, Forestry Program Coordinator, California Native Plant Society (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Jim Strittholt, Ph. D., Director, Landscape Ecologist, Conservation Biology Institute

Vince Taylor, Ph. D.,  Executive Director, Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). Provides evidence that the the Draft Management Plan seriously over-estimates forest inventory and growth, that the new inventory system is not trusted within CDF, and that law and policy on maximum sustainable yield have not been followed.

General EIR Comments

Comments by Tanya Smart and Brent Wright, Jackson Forest neighbors who recently experienced the effects of major logging in Hare Creek.

Comments by Leona Walden, Mendocino resident and long-time recreation user of Jackson Forest.

Mary Bull, Coordinator, Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign

Preliminary Comments and Analysis of the Management Plan

Analysis of the Management Plan with Suggested EIR Comments, by Kathy Bailey, recently retired Chair of the Sierra Club Forest Conservation Committee.

Preliminary Analysis of the Management Plan, Jim Strittholt, Ph. D., Director, Landscape Ecologist, Conservation Biology Institute