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Sequoia Trails Newsletter April 2024

Forest Service Replies After Seven Months

As you may recall Stewards of the Sequoia along with Cal4WD, Blue Ribbon and CORVA requested Congressional Oversight on the Sequoia and Sierra National Forest Plan decision due to it violating Forest Service policy and Congressional Acts. It took seven months and lots of follow up for the Forest Service to respond to the simple questions we asked regarding their own forest plan. Their response is artfully dishonest. We are now working with Legislators to seek oversight hearings to get the Forest Plans back on a reasonable track such as not creating a one mile wide PCT Management Area that could harm all other forms of recreation.

42 Million Acres Of Lands Needed For Recreation

Legislators recently expressed interest in looking at creating legislation to release 42 million acres of lands back to multiple use that were studied decades ago and found to be unsuitable for Wilderness designation, but which are still managed as Wilderness. Stewards discovered this issue and have provided the legislators with background which we hope will enable them to correct this problem by releasing these lands back to multiple use. With more and more people recreating on public lands, we sorely need more multiple use lands where they can recreate.

Most Overlooked Performance Gain