What You Can Do -- Take Action!
Please don't hesitate in voicing your
concerns over the proposed Mount Ashland Ski Area Expansion--time is
limited! Here's what you can do:
Mount Ashland Ski Area
Expansion Comment Workshops
Empowering citizens to
protect the Ashland
Watershed
Wednesday,
April 14, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road
Sunday,
April 18, from 1 to 4 pm
Ashland Public Library,
Gresham Room
On March 26, the Rogue-Siskiyou
National Forest published new analysis
to justify expanding the ski area on Mount Ashland despite the 2007
ruling by a federal appeals court that the plan violates environmental
laws
intended to protect water quality and endangered animals.
The expansion would clear-cut 70
football fields of old
growth forest and trigger landslides that can pollute Ashland’s
water with sediment. Expansion also would intrude
on the wild
McDonald Peak Roadless Area and displace Pacific fisher, an endangered
forest
carnivore.
This workshop will provide resources
for effective citizen
action to protect the Ashland Watershed from industrial development.
Please bring your questions and
enthusiasm, and plan to
spend a couple hours working with neighbors to stop the expansion.
Comments are due to the Forest Service by Friday, May 6. The
DSEIS is available here: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/projects/mtashlandski/dseis.pdf
 Submit comments on
the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
Send comments to the Forest Service on
the DSEIS at:
Steve Johnson, Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
645 Washington Street, Ashland, Oregon, 97520,
Telephone (541) 552–2900; FAX (541) 552–2922.
 Boycott
Ski Ashland: don't give your money to a Middle Branch expansion--learn more!
Write Letters
to newspapers and the City Council.
 Attend
events listed in the events
calendar, especially Ashland City Council meetings.
 Spread
the word: talk to friends & neighbors, print some flyers, posters, & stickers
to distribute.
We can keep Mount Ashland healthy,
vibrant and wild while having an improved ski area! Stand up for
what you believe in before its too late!
 BOYCOTT
SKI ASHLAND this winter! Don't put your money towards expanding the ski area
into the Middle Branch. Learn more about boycotting Ski Ashland
and alternative winter recreation sites in the area.
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