Stop State Land Logging
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Dear Governor Spitzer;
On behalf of the concerned citizens of Wayne, Monroe, Cayuga, Onondaga, and other upstate counties, we of Lake Shore Environmental Action request a moratorium on logging on all state owned Wildlife Management Areas until citizens not involved in the logging industry have their interests equally considered through public hearings.
There is widespread and growing dissatisfaction with the economic and environmental consequences of the present policies of land and timber management being applied to those public lands along the lake shore between Fair Haven and Sodus Bay.
These are important recreational areas used by both hunters and by non consumptive users who hike, birdwatch, camp, or canoe by or through these areas. There is ample reason to suspend logging and clear cutting on these sensitive areas of steep slopes adjacent to high quality large wetland areas especially at this time of abundant rainfall and high erosion potential until policies can be evaluated and goals re-assessed. We further believe that the present policy goals and objectives of management of these lands are in appropriate to this time and should be revised with public input and oversight. We request that logging and clear cutting on the former Girl Scout Camp Whistle Wood and on other stands of similar mature mixed hardwoods and on any other remaining undisturbed state lands should cease immediately until the public has had ample opportunity to comment on and assess the management goals of these areas.
On behalf of the concerned citizens of Wayne, Monroe, Cayuga, Onondaga, and other upstate counties, we of Lake Shore Environmental Action request a moratorium on logging on all state owned Wildlife Management Areas until citizens not involved in the logging industry have their interests equally considered through public hearings.
There is widespread and growing dissatisfaction with the economic and environmental consequences of the present policies of land and timber management being applied to those public lands along the lake shore between Fair Haven and Sodus Bay.
These are important recreational areas used by both hunters and by non consumptive users who hike, birdwatch, camp, or canoe by or through these areas. There is ample reason to suspend logging and clear cutting on these sensitive areas of steep slopes adjacent to high quality large wetland areas especially at this time of abundant rainfall and high erosion potential until policies can be evaluated and goals re-assessed. We further believe that the present policy goals and objectives of management of these lands are in appropriate to this time and should be revised with public input and oversight. We request that logging and clear cutting on the former Girl Scout Camp Whistle Wood and on other stands of similar mature mixed hardwoods and on any other remaining undisturbed state lands should cease immediately until the public has had ample opportunity to comment on and assess the management goals of these areas.
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