Dixie-Fishlake NF Weblog
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Expected release of the draft Comprehensive Evaluation Report (CER) has been postponed to an estimated date of June 26. Both the draft CER Summary and the longer draft specialist reports should be available at that time. Initially we had hoped to have the draft CER available with the release of the Proposed Plan Working Document in early June, but we do intend to have the draft CER available by the Forest Plan Forum (June 28-29).

As part of the Forum, Frank Fay will lead a break-out session on the afternoon of the 28th to discuss the CER. He will be available for questions and discussion as well.

Some people have asked for a map to the Haze Hunter Conference Center and SUU. Here are some maps that may be helpful. I took them from the SUU website and Mapquest.

Maps

Here is the text of our news release. A second release will come out a week or so before the Forum event.
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On the morning of the first day of the Forum we will have a 45 minute presentation/discussion on the many changes in national policy that have taken place in the last couple years for forest planning. Tony Erba, who is currently part of our Washington Office planning shop, but formerly was the Dixie NF Forest Planner, will be on hand to make the presentations and field questions. Tony will also be available during the breakouts on the afternoon of the first day for a more in-depth discussion of your questions. He is planning on attending both days of the Forum and we hope you will grab him and engage him in the questions you have regarding national policy.

In order to give Tony a flavor for the types of questions you have about recent changes in national policy (e.g. new planning rule and EMS), please share some of your questions here on the blog. This will help Tony prepare his presentations and give us a feel for the level of depth you are interested in on these issues. Thanks.

This agenda is revised based on todays call. There are a few minor modifications.
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Forest Plan Forum Conference Call #6
May 22, 2006

Today about 5 past planning participants joined our conference call on the Plan Forum.

We reviewed our outreach efforts, sponsorships, our revised agenda (discussing more closely the changes on day 1 and lunchtime discussions), progress on panelists, our open house, contingency plans, and registration packets.

Here are a couple highlights:
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If you would like to post this flyer in your town or at your office. Please feel free to do so. Also, please feel free to email it to others that may have an interest. You will need powerpoint to view it. If you would like a pdf version, please contact me.

Flyer for Forum

We are getting closer with the agenda. We made some minor changes this week. We adjusted a few times. We added some optional lunchtime discussions. We decided to make the breakouts on day one into two blocks.

Let us know if you have any thoughts. Hopefully next week we can announce who will be on our panels. We are about 1/2 to 3/4 commited on panels.
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Forest Plan Forum Conference Call #5 Summary
May 15, 2006

Several of our past planning participants joined the Forest Service on the fifth conference call to plan the Forest Plan Forum. Our next call is scheduled for Monday, May 22. If you would like to join us, please let me know and I will get you the information needed to join the call.

We discussed the reformat of the first day, sponsorships, outreach, topics, panelists, and facilitation among other topics.
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I have revised the agenda for the Forum.

1. We have made some changes to the afternoon of the first day. I will need to nail down the details of that day and topics for discussion in the breakouts with the planning group. We would love your thoughts here about that day.

2. We have identified six topics for panels on the second day. We are still fleshing out what would be involved in those topics and who would be the panelists. If you have thoughts, please let us know.

3. We are looking for two skilled, neutral, and local facilitators that can help us on day two. Any thoughts?

Here is the revised agenda:

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