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Show I nedd to know who this timber guy is who comes in and tells what amount has to be cut per forest and what you can do or not do, if the direction is excessive. I need to know at what levels above Wasatch to KO to accomplish goals - and to whom, and for what purposes. (Who to talk to, when, and in what way.) I just plain need to know my way around. If you do not see this as your obligation, then where do I got to learn this? I also need to know what possibilities for change you consider possible to bring about, by what methods, and what areas you consider necessary. So - consider: If we go How do we go - through Petowskey, for wildlife and biologist status - through other F.S. avenues - through outside political structures -• which ones, which levels of Congress, etc. How There's a lot at stake here, Jim. First you people must consider really whether I can be of help. Can our mutual committment to a common goal withstand differences of professional and amateur status, ways of helping me obt&in knowledge (this is time consuming), some degree of planning with me. YOU have to decide this. Then, if you agree to go ahead, we need to really work like hell to accomplish something. In the Common Cause manual, this kind of cooperation between agency and public is imperative. And, in working this out, no one is ratting or no one is prying. It it a mutual effort for obligatory management of public resources. ( I should have said this at the Wi&dlife Conference.) I believe that what I have said is important. It is no longer adequate for me, if I am to really be effective, to be operating on bits and pieces of information or hints dropped or casual suggestions made* ( Help on the Land Use Plan was excellent and well worth your time.) Nor it i& adequate now for me to take off on my own with, ideas or proposals, as I have done in the past* The initiation is over. If you will have me - and this YOU people must decide - then we must roll up our sleeves and get down to brass tacks - and work. This might be ultimately, one of the finest fehinga you have done for the Forest Service. Dorothy |
