TWO MINUTES TO HELP KEEP PIUTE TRAILS OPEN

[Goatman]

TWO MINUTES TO HELP KEEP PIUTE TRAILS OPEN

I hope you will take just two minutes to send a letter to the Forest
Service telling them you support their recently released Piute Proposed Action
and keeping trails open.

Two weeks ago Forest Supervisor Tina Terrel published the Notice of Intent and
the Proposed Action for the Piute Trail System. Now it is vitally important
that every member support this Proposed Action to ensure this plan moves
forward and that we keep all the gains we have fought so long and hard for.
Over the years you have been on the defensive and have been asked time and again
to help stop trail closures, but due to our past efforts today we have turned
that around and can support keeping trails open instead of trying to stop
closures. Amazing as it may seem while other forests are closing hundreds of
miles of trails, the Sequoia Forest Service is proposing to keep virtually all
roads and trails open in the Piutes. Stewards of the Sequoia have worked hard
over the past six years with many local community organizations and the Forest
Service to make this happen, but we cannot rest on our laurels yet.
Now that Supervisor Terrel has left we want the new Forest Supervisor to see
that we will continue to remain engaged and that we are serious about keeping
trails open. This is just the beginning of the Piute Planning process and we
must continue to be fully engaged.

Please send your letter now. Just click on the link below and do your part to
help preserve your
[url]trails.http://cts.vresp.com/c/?StewardsoftheSequoia/f831652e1d/feba4a504c/abc86e47fa/PetitionID=48[/url]

Successfully keeping trails open takes a lot of effort and deserves your
support. Yet only 16% of Stewards members have made a current donation. Without
more donations Stewards cannot cover our expenses. Please consider making a
donation to help support Stewards of the Sequoia successful Trail Preservation
Program to keep your trails open.

[Goatman]

This was a very unique collaborative process between the Forest Service and the community, and the proposal is a good one, as good as we could have expected. Instead of writing to object to things, we can write in support of the proposal, I don't remember when this has happened before.

I've written my letter. I've also kept up my annual donation to Save the Sequoias.

[REDxj5150]

Quick and easy. Although I added quite a few personal annotations, but it wasn't long.

[Mickey]

Done...!

[Desert Dog]

Wrote mine yesterday (when I got the email)

[Mickey]

[quote="desert dog"]Wrote mine yesterday (when I got the email)[/quote]

Me too.!.!.!

[Bert338]

Mine sent this morning.

[Ibreakshit44]

Mine is in the little white box truck today around 3:00