INDEX for my comments VWC-DEIS #35945

Reviewing the VWC-DEIS you'll notice a number of points worth a closer look. Below is an incomplete list of problems with the Draft Environmental Impact Statement #35945.

To facilitate understanding the document I have organized my objections into single issue threads. I'm hoping this will help give folks a jump-start in learning about the VWC-DEIS

Each post begins with USDA Forest Service - Village at Wolf Creek Access Project - Draft Environmental Impact Statement section quoted.


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    •    VWC-DEIS 1.6.5 Climate and Air Quality
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 1.7.3 Validity of 1986 Land Exchange
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 1.7.1 Health & Human Safety at a High Altitude
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 1.10 ANILCA 1980 - Road Access Rights
 
    •    VWC-DEIS Chap. 2 Page 46/47 - Employment Status

    •    VWC-DEIS 3.4 Water Rights & Use

    •    VWC-DEIS 3.1 Surface Water – Water Quality, Stream Health and Floodplains
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 3.7.5 Wetland Functions and Values
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 3.7.6 Fens
 
    •    VWC-DEIS 4.7.1 (Wetlands) Direct & Indirect Consequences

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For the official information see the following links:

USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, Rio Grande National Forest:
VWC-DEIS Project Documents

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Dear Friends of Alberta Park and Wolf Creek, 
we have this one moment to tell the Rio Grande Forest Service and the US Department of Agriculture's powers-that-be what a destructive boondoggle this luxury Village at 10,500± elevation would be.


But, they'll never listen to you, if you don't contact them!

Here's where to do that, but you need to do it now, September:

Village at Wolf Creek Land Exchange Proposal #35945

https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/CommentInput?Project=35945

Commenting on This Project
The Forest Service values public input. Comments received, including respondents’ names and addresses, will become part of the public record for this proposed action. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, anonymous comments will not provide the agency with the ability to provide you with project updates. The Forest Service wishes to provide you with as many opportunities as possible to learn about our activities.

Official Deadline for comments: 9/30/2012. (or is that Friday the 28th, or Monday the 1st?)