Comments and Appeals to Sequoia National Forest and other Agencies about Projects that Affect the Southern Sierra Nevada
Sequoia ForestKeeper assures environmentally sound compliance with the laws through participation in project-level planning, commenting, appealing, and when necessary litigating proposed projects that could negatively affect the ecosystems of the southern Sierra Nevada, including the Giant Sequoia National Monument and Forest (GSNM). Comments specifically about GSNM projects are found here. http://www.sequoiaforestkeeper.org/comments_and_appeals.aspx
Click on any of the links below to view our latest comments and appeals about projects in Sequoia National Forest and Southern Sierra Nevada lands.
Comments and Appeals 31 August 2018 13 August 2018 Cleared areas can increase fire risk. Exotic grasses carry flames faster and further grown when native vegetation is cleared. Those same exotic grasses are the ladder fuel that causes total devastation instead of the healthy mosaic pattern of fire movement. Instead of removing woody material, money should be spent finding a way to combat exotic grasses in an ecologically friendly manner. The desert never burned before exotic grasses brought in by grazing animals and their disturbance helped the grasses grow. 8 August 2018
13 June 2018 11 June 2018 20 May 2018 16 May 2018
26 April 2018
Comments to the California Water Commission about the lack of ecological or public trust benefits of Proposition 1 funding of the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP) and mitigation suggestions.
20 April 2018
23 March 2018
31 July 2017
31 July 2017
21 July 2017
8 May 2017
17 March 2017
15 March 2017
15 March 2017
27 February 2017
14 February 2017 - updated and corrected submission
In the previous January 17, 2017 submission by Wasteful Unreasonable
Methane Uprising, Sequoia ForestKeeper a spreadsheet set concerning
global GHG emissions and global surface temperature change values was
submitted. A few minor errors concerning notes on Sheet 1, lines 57, 58,
and 70 have been corrected, as well as a few other changes have been
incorporated.
1. Recalculated Anthropogenic GHG Emissions Global Surface Temperature Change 1950-2016
Attachments
12 January 2017
CARB Natural Working Lands Modeling comment on the urgent need to increase net carbon sequestration.
Find other comments posted about the CARB lands modeling here.
21 November 2016
19 September 2016
13 September 2016
25 August 2016
17 August 2016
8 August 2016Ara Marderosian comment letter with suggestions to the California Air Resources Board Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.
(1) In answer to the stated
objective of EJAC is to determine how to differently manage forests to reduce
Greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and increase carbon storage, I stated that forests
must be managed as closed canopy forests. Maintaining closed canopy forests,
rather than logging, will increase forest moisture, and decrease forest
temperature and surface winds, which will all reduce severe wildfires and
increase carbon sequestration.
(2) In response to a presenter’s
statement that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is charged
with considering impacts, of its decisions, to individuals in disadvantaged
communities in order to not create barriers to the use of energy efficiency,
I stated that the CPUC’s decision to allow power companies to charge customers
who generate solar power a grid connect fee that increases the minimum monthly
charge for power to $10, which would be a dis-incentive to invest in solar
panels for individuals in disadvantaged communities.
(3) Written and oral comment on
Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy were submitted on behalf
of Jan Dietrick, MPH, Steering Committee, Ventura County Climate Hub, Ventura,
CA 805.746.5365, Todd Shuman, Senior Analyst, Wasteful Unreasonable Methane
Uprising, Camarillo, CA 805.987.8203, and Sequoia ForestKeeper, Kernville, CA,
which included three recommended actions for methane emissions reduction to
achieve 80% reduction below current levels by 2030:
(A) A robust fee or fine on unburnt, uncaptured
methane emissions of $4700/CH4 ton (in 2007 US dollars) paid by emitters,
(B) A rapidly decreasing mandatory cap on
allowable methane emissions from all sources, and
(C) Discontinuation of subsidies on
animal products.
26 May 2016
Attachments:
Letter from Center for Biological Diversity and Climate Change Law Foundation to CARB on their Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy and Draft
New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants. Myles R. Allen, et al. { Allen et al on SLCP GWP 2016}
Offsetting methane emissions — An alternative to emission equivalence metrics.
25 May 2016
The wildlife and habitats of this world cannot take much more assault from humans that refuse to let nature live. Without nature we will all perish.
13 April 2016
March 31, 2016
March 15, 2016
USACE Supplemental Environmental Analysis Borel Canal Comments
March 3, 2016
February 4, 2016
(February first was a very busy day commenting on the Sequoia-Sierra National Forest Plan Revision Species of Concern (or lack of concern as evidenced by the Forest Service paying little heed to the Best Available Science))
SFK discusses in brief 25 species of concern that are missing from the Forest Service draft list.
February 1, 2016
February 1, 2016
Sierra Forest Legacy, Center for Biological Diversity, California Native Plant Society, Bristlecone Chapter, California Native Plant Society, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Inyo, Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation, The Wilderness Society, Forest Issues Group Sierra Club, Range of Light Group (Toiyabe Chapter) Sierra Club, Tehipite Chapter, Sierra Club, Western Watersheds Project, Friends of the River, CalWild/California Wilderness Coalition, and Mono Lake Committee
Submitted general concerns about the approach and documentation for the determination of Species of Conservation Concern and comments related to the determinations for individual species.
February 1, 2016
These comments are submitted in addition to the comments submitted by Sierra Forest Legacy on behalf of multiple organizations on the Draft Proposed SCC lists for the Inyo, Sequoia and Sierra National Forests.
February 1, 2016
January 28, 2016
January 27, 2016
Attach J - Summit Star Tulip Occurrences
Attach K - Summit Species
Attach L - Ice Project CSO PAC Map
Attach O - Summit CE B alta sierrae 2016
Attach P - Summit CE-A gentilis Record
Attachment A - March 27, 2014
Attachment B - September 11, 2013
December 29, 2015
November 23, 2015
November 20, 2015
October 19, 2015
October 16, 2015
July 29, 2015
Please address the petition by including the following subject heading:
RE: June 8, 2015 Temporary Urgency Change Petition Concerning SWP/CVP and Water Deliveries, in relation to the April 6, 2015 TUCO
July 6, 2015
These two pdfs contain the SFK and WURU objections that were submitted
as an addendum to our previous complaints that current SWRCB orders,
which enable water diversions to commercial industry, damage the
environment without regard to impacts to wildlife or the public trust.
The
use of irrigated water for livestock feed crop production is both
wasteful and unreasonable during this time of drought in California;
such use also conflicts with the “waste or unreasonable use” section of
the California Constitution.
May 12, 2015
April 1, 2015
Tobias Project FEIS
Scoping Comments for Sequoia ForestKeeper ®, Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra
Club, & Western Watersheds Project
December 1, 2014
October 17, 2014
September 30, 2014
Travel Analysis Process Comments for Sequoia ForestKeeper
& Sierra Club
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