ARTICLE: Read a follow-up article to the recent public meeting in Asheville, North Carolina on the USFWS future forest management plan on the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests. “The overall theme that I feel like from the wildlife habitat perspective is to manage this forest for diversity,” Sheryl Bryan, a U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist, told the crowd. Jim Gray, of the Ruffed Grouse Society chapter based in Franklin, sees a direct correlation between game populations and timber cuts. The prior plan had about 20 percent of the forest designated to be cut on a 20-year cycle; in fact, they cut less than 2 percent,” Gray told Macon County commissioners at their July 9 meeting. “Those of us that are grouse hunters, those of us that deer hunt have really seen a difference in terms of the wildlife population.” Read the article below: smokymountainnews/outdoors/item/13835-hashing-out-habitat-crowd-debates-wildlife-habitat-in-forest-management-plan-meeting
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:55:22 +0000