The Forest Service will be presenting information
and gathering preliminary public feedback for the Rim Country
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) draft Proposed Action at an
informational meeting Tuesday, May 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
at the Messinger Funeral Home in Payson, AZ.
The Rim Country EIS is the second landscape-scale,
multi-forest EIS in the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). It
will analyze restoration treatments on approximately 1.25 million acres
of National Forest System Land across the Mogollon
Rim near Blue Ridge, Payson, Show Low, and Springerville.
The meeting, hosted by the 4FRI Stakeholder Group,
is open to all members of the public interested in 4FRI the crucial
treatments proposed in the Rim Country EIS. The meeting will begin with a
45-minute presentation by the Forest Service
on 4FRI projects, other projects around Payson, and the draft Proposed
Action for the Rim Country EIS. The remainder of the meeting will be an
open house where the public will have an opportunity to visit with
resource specialists and provide feedback on the
draft Proposed Action.
“This is an informal, informational meeting that we
are offering ahead of the formal public scoping meetings and comment
periods identified by the National Environmental Policy Act,” says
Annette Fredette, 4FRI Planning Coordinator. Those
meetings and opportunities to provide comments for the public record
will occur this summer with the release of the Notice of Intent and
Proposed Action.
“Our intent for the meeting on May 10
is to involve the public in the collaborative process before the formal
planning process even begins. It’s important to us that members of the
local communities be part of this every step of the way.”
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