Source: Karen Chavez, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 3/9/20

Confused about the hundreds of pages that make up the U.S. Forest Service’s Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests management plan? You’re not alone. The 285-page plan, accompanied by a 650-page draft Environmental Impact Statement is not for the faint of heart. But the documents, released to the public for review Feb. 7 after seven years of research, public input and revisions, do affect most every resident of Western North Carolina, and in total, some 5 million people from around the world who visit the 1.1 million acres of public forest land each year.

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