Writing Your Own Comment Letter to the Board of Forestry

Here are some sample letters, expressing different views. You can copy and paste these into your word processor or into an e-mail for editing.

Example1.

Dear Board of Forestry,

Regarding the Jackson State Forest Management Plan:

I favor a plan that will put emphasis on forest restoration and stream health. I would also favor maintaining and expanding recreation opportunities. Finally, I think important to allow scientific research and demonstration on forest resource management. Timber harvesting, when done should consistent with these purposes and revenue used only to finance operations of the forest.

 I want California’s our public forest managed for a broad range of values, not just logged to fund state forestry programs.

Sincerely,

Example 2

Dear Board of Forestry,

Regarding the Jackson State Forest Management Plan:

I believe it is your responsibility to tell the California Department of Forestry (CDF) to go back to the drawing boards to create a new management plan. CDF’s years of management have not always been beneficial to Jackson State Forest, nor kept pace with California’s need for recreation and research into forestry methods.

 It is evident the logging companies have abused forests throughout the state and then sold off the lands for development. These logging companies are beholden to their stockholders and operate on a profit motive. Jackson State Forest cannot be operated in such a fashion. It is a public trust and as such deserves to be treated not for profit but for the benefit of the people of California. It deserves to be a showplace for how a forest can be managed on a sustained yield basis and yet provide recreation and research for all.

 Please favor a management plan that reduces logging, increases research and recreation, and uses income from operations to further aims of DOF that will restore the public’s faith in the Forestry Department as an organization for the public not for the timber companies.

 Thank you,

 Example 3

Dear Board of Forestry,

Regarding the Jackson State Forest Management Plan:

A new management plan is absolutely essential if our forest is to be preserved and restored. The plan last proposed by CDF would destroy the canopy on half of the forest, has no recreation plan, and targets the oldest stands for logging. This is unacceptable. It matters not the state is in a severe crisis, this cannot be an excuse for destruction of a public resource.

 Please use your oversight of Jackson Forest management to create direction that will maximize research, and place restoration in a higher priority than profit from timber harvesting.

What is done to Jackson Forest now and the immediate future will affect Mendocino County  and California for the rest of our lives – and our children's lives.

Sincerely,

You can also edit and send a prepared letter from a website action page.

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