Stop 16,030 acres of post-fire logging in the Wrights Spring Fire on the Fremont-Winema National Forest

What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document

• I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
• The scoping letter proposes timber harvest on 16,030 acres of the Wrights Spring Fire and says the project will rely on analysis completed for the national Post-Fire Recovery Environmental Assessment. A national programmatic assessment can't speak to this fire's burn severity, soils, streams or wildlife. The district should show the site-specific analysis behind these 16,030 acres before any sale moves forward.
• The comment period runs seven days, September 22 to September 29, and the letter says that under the emergency situation determination (IIJA section 40807) the assessment and finding aren't subject to objections under 36 CFR 218. One week with no objection process is too little public review for 16,030 acres of logging and 2 miles of new temporary road. The district should extend the comment period to at least 30 days.
• The letter limits cutting inside northern spotted owl refugia to incidental hazard trees, fewer than about 5 per mile, but it doesn't say how much of the 16,030 acres of harvest borders refugia or falls in owl habitat outside them. The district should map the harvest units against owl refugia and habitat and publish that overlap before it decides.
• Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.