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Swan View Coalition has secured quiet habitat for fish, wildlife and people by getting hundreds of miles of forest roads and trails closed to motorized vehicles - but motorcycles continue to abuse the Swan Crest both on and off authorized trails.
So let's get together and protect the entire Swan Range!
Please join the hundreds of other folks that support our work through letter-writing and monetary donations!
Together we can make a big difference!
Motorcycles again this summer were captured in video and photos operating illegally off-trail near Lamoose Lake, as well as causing deep rutting of Alpine Trail #7 where their use is currently allowed.
Read on to see photos and video of this damaging activity and for a link to email your complaint to the Forest Service.
It's high time to get motorcycles out of the high alpine country along the Swan Crest!
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Thanks to folks like you, 97% of the comments received by the Flathead National Forest were opposed to felling the best larch trees just to collect the cones for nursery seed. Most suggested non-lethal alternatives such as climbing the trees or using helicopters and lift trucks to fetch the cones.
The Flathead has revised its proposal to consider the use of lift trucks, but it fails to require the use of lift trucks or other non-lethal methods! In fact, other non-lethal methods are not even discussed in the new proposal!
Your email comments on the new proposal are needed by July 7 to once again send a clear message to the Flathead that the public does not want the Forest Service killing the goose that laid the golden egg!
Please send an email today to Marsha Moore at comments-northern-flathead@fs.fed.us . Tell her you want non-lethal cone collection methods to be REQUIRED, and that they may include an array of options such as traditional tree climbing, lift trucks and helicopters. Killing our best larch trees, no matter how few or many, is simply not necessary!
You can read the June 5 revised cone collection proposal here.
You can read Swan View's comments on the revised proposal here.
You can read our alert on the Flathead's initial cone collection proposal here.
The Winter-Spring 2012 issue of Swan View's News describes the interplay of science, litigation, politics, and collaboration in the restoration of the Big Creek watershed on the Flathead National Forest.
You'll want to read this issue cover-to-cover if you'd like to know why citizen advocacy and litigation are so often necessary to give voice to the needs of fish, wildlife and people!
Winter-Spring 2012 Swan View's News (pdf).
Public comments are due May 31, 2012, on Flathead National Forest proposals for new downhill fee-ride mountain bike trails and races!
We've asked the Flathead to keep all new free-ride bike trails confined to the developed portions of Big Mountain and to redirect all mountain bike race proposals there. This would keep thrill-seeking, high-speed biking and its inevitable conflicts with wildlife and other trail users from spreading across the Forest.
Please send a quick email to comments-northern-flathead-tally-lake@fs.fed.us today! Comments are due May 31, 2012.
You can read our comment letter here, which includes accounts of bikers being mauled or rammed by wildlife!
You can read about the Flathead's proposal for another high-speed downhill mountain bike trail on Big Mountain here.
You can read about the Flathead's proposal to authorize mountain bike racing elsewhere on the Tally Lake Ranger District here.
Please take a few moments and send that email NOW!
Flathead National Forest wants to cut down 270 of its genetically best, big larch trees simply to collect their cones for seed one time, rather than pick the cones or drop select branches to the ground!
Please write a short email or letter today and urge the Flathead to use time-proven, non-lethal methods to collect larch cones and seed for its nurseries!
See here and at right how the Ochoco National Forest uses a lift truck to pick larch cones and lets the trees live to see another day and another generation!
The Flathead has no shortage of big larch trees along roads at various elevations and microclimates to suit its genetic selection process - and there remain plenty of non-lethal options where a lift truck cannot be used!
Tell the Flathead to let 270 of America's best 2-foot diameter larch trees live on to spread their seed for future generations in the wild - and for nursery seed collection in the future!
Email Marsha Moore at memoore@fs.fed.us, phone her at 406-758-5325, or mail her at Flathead National Forest, 650 Wolfpack Way, Kalispell, MT 59901.
Comments must be submitted by April 16, 2012.
Read Swan View Coalition's comment letter here.
Read Flathead National Forest's press release here.
Please write a short email today to support the establishment of two non-motorized trails in the Lakeside-Blacktail area (there currently are none) - and to stop damaging motorized vehicles from using roads closed to protect elk and other forest resources (there are already over 130 miles of road open to motor vehicles)!
Your comments in 2009, along with those from Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, have convinced the Forest Service to not reopen closed roads in key elk security areas on the east and west slopes of Blacktail Mountain and in proposed non-motorized trail areas (as it would in its Alternative B). But it still wants to reopen to motorized vehicles 21 miles of road previously closed to protect wildlife, and to build steep connector trails similar to the one below between them (Alt. C)!
Swan View Coalition's comment letter was crafted to be consistent with MDFWP's recommendations for protection of elk and other resources.
Please support establishment of the Foys to Blacktail and Lakeside to Blacktail non-motorized trails and, if you agree with our letter, support the implementation of our proposed Alternative D!
Send your emails today, but certainly by March 22, to:
comments-northern-flathead-swan-lake@fs.fed.us
Be sure to include your name and mailing address so your email cannot be dismissed!
View our comment letter as a PDF.
You can view the Forest Service documents and maps at http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fs-usda-pop.php/?project=22659
Elk and other wildlife need your help to insure recreation is consistent with the protection of their, and your, habitat!
Please write a short note today, and Thanks!
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Under the guise of "National Security and Federal Lands Protection," the Act by that name would do anything BUT protect federal lands!
Indeed, Act co-sponsor Denny Rehberg brags the Act will allow the Border Patrol to re-open roads other agencies have rightly closed to motor vehicles in order to protect water quality, fish and wildlife. Rehberg falsely claims people cannot hunt, fish or hike on roads closed to motor vehicles! Read Rehberg's claims here.
HR 1505 would exempt Customs and Border Protection agents from 36 laws written to protect the public, its lands, and its fish and wildlife within 100 miles of the US-Canada and US-Mexico borders. (Including the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act)!
Rehberg's promotion of the Act appears to use the Border Patrol to undo environmental protections and expand access for ATVs and other motor vehicles, ignoring the clear fact that such access makes drug smuggling, poaching and other illegal activities easier.
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The Holidays 2011 issue of Swan View's News reports we can voluntarily treat roadless lands as Wilderness, build on existing support for Congressional Wilderness designations, renew the public pledge to "Tread Lightly" and "Leave no Trace," and conduct volunteer Wilderness-compliant trail maintenance in order to walk the talk!
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