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Audubon Vermont backs permitting reforms but urges targeted, not blanket, use of "Stony Brook" screening
Summary
An Audubon Vermont representative told a committee the permitting report offers useful reforms for forestry processing but warned against automatically applying the report's recommended "Stony Brook" screening to all projects, urging front-end guidance and technical assistance instead.
An Audubon Vermont representative told a committee on Feb. 5 that a recent permitting report contains sensible reforms for forest-products permitting but cautioned against applying its proposed "Stony Brook" screening automatically to every project.
The presenter, identified in the transcript as Speaker 1 (Audubon Vermont representative), said the National Audubon Society is working across the hemisphere to reverse steep bird population declines and emphasized the local importance of Vermont as a breeding region. "We're seeing a very significant decline in bird species," the speaker said, noting an estimate that "almost 3,000,000,000... birds have been estimated to have been lost" since 1970 and that 170,000,000 Eastern Forest birds are estimated to have been lost.
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