USFS Begins Next Round of Forest Plan Updates, Announces Listening Sessions
U.S. Forest Service Regions 5 and 6 are joining together to update the forest land management plans in the Northwest Forest Plan amendment area, and have announced three listening sessions to outline their strategy and begin taking public comment.
The newly announced plan revisions follow the “early adopter” revisions on the Inyo, Sierra, and Sequoia National Forests using the 2012 National Land Management Planning Rule. In California, plan revisions in the Northwest Forest Plan area will include the Klamath, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta-Trinity, and Six Rivers National Forests.
Full details on the listening sessions can be accessed here.
Water Blog on Groundwater Sustainability Plans
The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences recently posted a blog titled “Creating Effective Sustainable Groundwater Plans,” (accessed here). Largely authored by academics from the UC system, the blog links to both a suggested table of contents for groundwater sustainability plans (accessed here), and a more detailed appendix (accessed here).
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires that Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) be completed for basins in a critical condition of overdraft by January 31, 2022 and all other high and medium priority basins by January 31, 2022.
NOFA: Emergency Housing and Assistance Program Capital Development Component (EHAP-CD)
Click here