Dear John,

The U. S. Forest Service is proposing sweeping rule changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that would virtually eliminate the public’s voice in a majority of the decisions affecting national forests -- up to 93% of the agency’s decisions would be exempt from public input!

The agency claims that this is needed to bypass environmental analysis when there would be no harmful impacts to the land, but the proposal is far too broad. The result would be to fast-track certain projects such as logging, mining, road building, prescribed burns, and oil and gas development, which can negatively impact clean water and functioning rivers.

The health of our rivers and streams depends upon the ability of all Americans to weigh in on these important decisions. Raise your voice to tell the Administration that the public participation enshrined in NEPA is critical to ensuring that only well-crafted, safe and balanced projects in the national interest can move forward on public lands!

Click here to share your concerns with the administration.

Thanks for all that you do for rivers,