Tips for Public Commenting
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PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE DUE DECEMBER 10, 2007
• Personalize your comments as much as possible - do you live, recreate, work near these lands?
• Be as specific as possible.
• Look at, and point out, inadequacies, such as economics analysis, fire and fuels reduction and climate change...
• Ask that they protect mature and old-growth forests and focus management on thinning already existing plantations.
• Ask that they protect communities from fire.
• Send copies of your comments to your elected officials - both Senators and your Congressperson!
ADDRESSES
Send comments to the BLM:
Bureau of Land Management, Western Oregon Plan Revisions Office
333 SW 1st. Avenue Portland, Oregon 97208
Please send copies of your comments to your Congressional delegation, in Oregon:
Senator Ron Wyden
1220 SW 3rd Ave., Suite 585, Portland, OR 97204
Senator Gordon Smith
121 SW Salmon St., Suite 1250, Portland, OR 97204
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-4th)
405 East 8th Ave. #2030, Eugene, OR 97401
Rep. Greg Walden (R-2nd)
843 East Main Street, Ste 400, Medford, OR 97504
Rep. Earl Blumenhauer (D-3rd)
729 N.E. Oregon St., Suite 115, Portland, OR 97232
Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-5th)
315 Mission Street SE #101, Salem, Oregon 97302