General Monthly Meeting: Update on National Forest Planning Process in Texas

The doors open at 7:00 PM, and the program starts at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome.

JUNE GENERAL MEETING:
National Forests in Texas: An Update on the process for a new Forest Plan.

Rob Potts with the NFGT Supervisor's Office (Natural Resources and Planning Team Leader) will make the presentation.

This is a once in a 20 year opportunity to ensure that the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas are managed to protect endangered species (Red-cockaded Woodpecker), streams and rivers (San Jacinto River, Neches River), rare plants (orchids), rare ecosystems (blackland prairies and Longleaf Pine Woodlands), recreation of all types (birding, hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, etc.), lakes and ponds (Lakes Conroe, Toledo Bend, and Sam Rayburn), provide protection to ecosystems from climate change (adaptation and specific management), reduce oil/gas drilling and or its impacts, provide for less logging, less motorized recreation, etc.
Without citizen input there will be lots of environmentally impacting activities and little for citizens who own these forests to be proud of and protect. We all need to steward our federal public lands particularly in the time of Trump and this is one way we can do this.