Saturday, June 16, 2018

Public Comments: Oppose Road in Selkirk Mountains DUE JULY 16

Photo courtesy of USDA Forest Service


The US Forest Service is considering building a road for "national security" purposes through prime grizzly bear habitat in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho. The road will be located approximately two miles from the Canadian border. 

Submit your public comments via email to SPWBogCreekEIS@cbp.dhs.gov no later than midnight EDT on July 16. 

WHAT TO SAY:

   - I oppose the plan to build the Bog Creek road. This road will be located in prime grizzly bear habitat. 

- Studies have repeated shown that building roads in grizzly bear habitat is extremely detrimental to grizzly bear population. A recent study by Clayton Lamb, from the University of Alberta, demonstrated that more roads equals fewer grizzly bears. Bears also tend to avoid habitats with roads through them.  Further, roads invite poachers into habitat, putting the recovering grizzly bear population and other wildlife at risk. 

- For these reasons, I oppose the construction of a national security road at Bog Creek. The construction and use would be too disruptive to the grizzly bears in the region.