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County adopts comments on Forest Service's Buffalo project, urges better coordination and cooperating-agency status
Summary
Lawrence County's natural resources committee presented and the commission adopted draft comments on the U.S. Forest Service's Buffalo environmental assessment, urging targeted treatments for high-risk stands, flexibility for on-the-ground adjustments and reinstatement of formal cooperating-agency status for the county.
Lawrence County commissioners accepted and authorized the chairman to sign county comments on the U.S. Forest Service's Buffalo environmental-assessment (EA) project after a Natural Resources Committee briefing.
Committee members and county staff told the board the EA includes opportunities to treat stands at medium-to-high risk for mountain pine beetle but that some proposed treatments seemed misaligned…
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