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Lawrence County adopts comments criticizing Forest Service Sawbuck plan’s use of prescribed fire and urging watershed protections
Summary
Natural resources committee members and Bill Colburn presented comments the county submitted to the U.S. Forest Service on the Sawbuck project, raising concerns about large‑scale prescribed burning, limited commercial harvest acres, watershed impacts and the project time horizon.
Lawrence County’s commissioners voted to adopt a set of comments prepared for submission to the U.S. Forest Service on the Sawbuck (Sawbuck/SAVA) project, urging more detail on prescribed‑fire plans, greater emphasis on commercial and mechanical treatments where appropriate, and clearer protections for watersheds that drain into Rapid Creek and Pactola Reservoir.
Bill Colburn, who drafted the comments for the county’s Natural Resources Committee, told commissioners the project covers roughly 30,000–34,000 acres and that the Forest Service proposal included only about 4,000 acres of commercial harvest over the next 10…
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