USFS addresses regional concerns

COEUR d’ALENE — The U.S. Forest Service gave its new process for addressing objections from the public its first test in Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday.

Associate Deputy Chief Jim Peña traveled from Washington, D.C., to chair an all-day meeting at The Coeur d’Alene Resort, designed to resolve objections to the Idaho Panhandle National Forest’s Revised Forest Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement before they are adopted.

While there were about 200 individual objections filed against the forest plan, Peña said the forest service wanted to focus on four areas that encompass the majority of those objections.

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