The U.S. Forest Service is taking objections to a decision it has already drafted here. Coronado National Forest, Arizona.
Record openthe agency stopped taking comments September 8 · what you find still counts
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
September 4
Window closed
September 8
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Coronado National ForestWildlife sign
“The NMRNR is typically found in steep, rocky canyons with intermittent streams or on talus slopes at elevations from approximately 5,400 to 8,500 feet”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake. Nobody has been out to check it.
Hike into the canyons in the Peloncillo Mountains that the project maps as top rattlesnake ground and photograph what the land actually looks like: rock, talus, canyon walls, stream channels. Wide photos from inside those mapped canyons showing either steep rock and talus with a stream channel, or open gentle ground instead.
Everything else the document says about the ground.
1 more sentence, in the agency’s own words, with where each one sits in the document. Any of them is fair game for a photograph.
“Elevation ranges from approximately 4,570 feet to 6,647 feet, and straddles the respective state lines between Hidalgo County, New Mexico and Cochise County, Arizona”
Under Project and Action AreasWhere: Peloncillo Mountains, Douglas Ranger District, spanning Hidalgo County NM and Cochise County AZ
The window shut September 8. Evidence still counts: it backs the objections from people who did comment, goes to the lawyers, and outlives the decision.