Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on June 29, 2021
Mountainair Collaborative meeting
June 22, 2021
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | 2 |
| Activity Hours | 2 |
| Participants | 2 |
| Total Hours | 6.5 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Relationship Building with non-white and/or frontline communities (relational meetings, attending events, community support, etc.)
Key Partners: USFS personnel, SWCD personnel, Joe Zebrowski Director of Geospatial Technology New Mexico Highlands University
Landscape/area: Cibola National Forest (1616435 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Update and Mountainair Ranger District and Cibola National Forest activities. Opportunity to reconvene and receive reports from partners.
Agenda:
Welcome and review of Meeting Purpose
Introductions
Cibola Forest Plan Update
Shared Stewardship, Forest Action plan Update
Cibola NF Recreation fees update
Partner and Public Comment (general)
Wrap up, next steps, and action items.
Reflection/Evaluation
The best thing about this meeting was the update from the USFS Region 3 representative about the August release of the final EISs for the 3 northern forests, including the responses to comments. This will begin the objection period for the final EIS, and there will be a lot to object to! The recommended wilderness acreage is incredibly minimal, and we will need to get together as a Broadband to find our comments that would give us standing, and file objections to the findings and responses in the final EIS. It is a heavy lift to track down the comments from the last DEIS and draft Forest Plan in 10/2019, but I have already started locating the comments. Virginia Seiser has said she will work with on this, and I certainly hope there will be others…TWS, NMWA, Sierra Club, etc.