Post by cdaxena on Sept 28, 2005 9:34:52 GMT -5
Support letter for Colville Grants needed ASAP
« on: Sep 27th, 2005, 1:34pm »
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As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short. This is a plea for letters of
support for some grants that the district has been working on for the last
few months. There is a quick turn around time on them, which I apologize
for. For some reason I didn't take the time until this fine Sunday
afternoon to get my thoughts straight on how to approach this. At any
rate, we have three grants we have put together. One for the Jane Musser
fund, which is a foundation that funds collaborative processes in land
management, and the other two are IAC grants, one for motorized NOVA, the
other for Non-highway roads NOVA. If you care to write an email supporting
these grants, please send an email of your letter to swarneke@fs.fed.us
She will get them in the right package.
Here are the details so you can determine if you support them
IAC NOVA grant for motorized:
Name of Grant: Pend Oreille Valley ATV routes
Kind of grant: Planning for trails
Amount: IAC funds = $51,350, Local match included FS money and volunteers
= $33,500
This is what the grant says: The CNF received a planning grant in 05 for
Phase one. The forest implemented this system July 2005 with a total of
650 miles. This new grant proposal is for planning grant this is needed to
prepare the NEPA for Phase 2 trail system. Phase 2 will add more high
clearance roads and high use roads, reopen some roads that have been closed
to ATV travel, construct short connector trails to connect portions of the
already designated routes, and add approved user created routes to the ATV
system.
IAC NOVA grant for non-highway roads:
Name of grant: Pend Oreille Valley Dispersed Site management
Kind of grant: Maintenance
Amount: IAC funds = $61,250, Local Match including FS money and volunteer
= $25,500
This is what the grant is about: The Pend Oreille valley has most of it's
recreation visitors going to the roads and trails that aren't associated
with campgrounds. These are called "dispersed sites" The forest has some
MAJOR problems in these sites and needs to do a good clean up and get them
in good shape again. This project would fund clean up crews going around
to these sites for two years cleaning them and making them look nice again.
We have a couple of major partners in this effort.
Jane Musser Fund
Name of Grant: Colville National forest Recreation Travel Strategy
Collaborative planning effort
Kind of Grant: project continuation and support for collaboration
Amount: Jane Musser fund = $30,000 Local match including FS money and
volunteers = $ 100,000
This is what the grant is about:The purpose of the grant is to assist
organizations in promoting land management stewardship through
collaboration. We propose to use the funds for collaborative resources,
such as collaboration workshops and facilitators, and to match funds for
other grants as they come available. The rest of Region 6 is looking how
the Colville manages this collaborative effort and we hope to have other
forests try this.
Again, letters of support really help get these grants. I have attached an
example letter of support that I got from someone in the Rec travel. I
have tried to put some pointers in there. If you can't really do a letter,
just send and email stating the ways you would support us in these efforts.
thanks again.
(See attached file: MusserTomDishaw.doc)
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Debbie Wilkins
Recreation, Engineering, Lands, and Minerals Staff
Newport and Sullivan Lake Ranger Districts
Colville National Forest
Telephone: 509-447-7322
E-mail: dwilkins@fs.fed.us
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Here is a sample letter for off-road motorcycle users:
Date
Name
Street Address
Address
RE: Letter of Support for Jane Musser Fund Grant
Dear Mr. Brazell:
I am writing, on behalf of myself and others who recreate with off-road motorcycles on the Colville National Forest, to express my support of the Colville’s use of the Recreation Travel Strategy Working group and the on-going use of collaboration to resolve recreation issues on the forest. Collaboration is essential to resolve the issues of accessing and sharing public lands.
I understand the purpose of this grant is to assist organizations in promoting land management stewardship through collaboration. I fully support the forest service using these funds to pay for collaborative resources, such as work shops, facilitators, and as match for other grants the forest service may be seeking.
The Colville National Forest has an inadequate number of trail miles and connecting trails to meet the demand. I went to the Newport Ranger district collaborative meetings to express my concerns about these issues and help the forest service address them. This grant would greatly benefit our efforts to manage the collaborative process. I would like to see the Jane Musser Fund Grant go through.
Sincerely,
Name
Title
« on: Sep 27th, 2005, 1:34pm »
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As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short. This is a plea for letters of
support for some grants that the district has been working on for the last
few months. There is a quick turn around time on them, which I apologize
for. For some reason I didn't take the time until this fine Sunday
afternoon to get my thoughts straight on how to approach this. At any
rate, we have three grants we have put together. One for the Jane Musser
fund, which is a foundation that funds collaborative processes in land
management, and the other two are IAC grants, one for motorized NOVA, the
other for Non-highway roads NOVA. If you care to write an email supporting
these grants, please send an email of your letter to swarneke@fs.fed.us
She will get them in the right package.
Here are the details so you can determine if you support them
IAC NOVA grant for motorized:
Name of Grant: Pend Oreille Valley ATV routes
Kind of grant: Planning for trails
Amount: IAC funds = $51,350, Local match included FS money and volunteers
= $33,500
This is what the grant says: The CNF received a planning grant in 05 for
Phase one. The forest implemented this system July 2005 with a total of
650 miles. This new grant proposal is for planning grant this is needed to
prepare the NEPA for Phase 2 trail system. Phase 2 will add more high
clearance roads and high use roads, reopen some roads that have been closed
to ATV travel, construct short connector trails to connect portions of the
already designated routes, and add approved user created routes to the ATV
system.
IAC NOVA grant for non-highway roads:
Name of grant: Pend Oreille Valley Dispersed Site management
Kind of grant: Maintenance
Amount: IAC funds = $61,250, Local Match including FS money and volunteer
= $25,500
This is what the grant is about: The Pend Oreille valley has most of it's
recreation visitors going to the roads and trails that aren't associated
with campgrounds. These are called "dispersed sites" The forest has some
MAJOR problems in these sites and needs to do a good clean up and get them
in good shape again. This project would fund clean up crews going around
to these sites for two years cleaning them and making them look nice again.
We have a couple of major partners in this effort.
Jane Musser Fund
Name of Grant: Colville National forest Recreation Travel Strategy
Collaborative planning effort
Kind of Grant: project continuation and support for collaboration
Amount: Jane Musser fund = $30,000 Local match including FS money and
volunteers = $ 100,000
This is what the grant is about:The purpose of the grant is to assist
organizations in promoting land management stewardship through
collaboration. We propose to use the funds for collaborative resources,
such as collaboration workshops and facilitators, and to match funds for
other grants as they come available. The rest of Region 6 is looking how
the Colville manages this collaborative effort and we hope to have other
forests try this.
Again, letters of support really help get these grants. I have attached an
example letter of support that I got from someone in the Rec travel. I
have tried to put some pointers in there. If you can't really do a letter,
just send and email stating the ways you would support us in these efforts.
thanks again.
(See attached file: MusserTomDishaw.doc)
***********************************
Debbie Wilkins
Recreation, Engineering, Lands, and Minerals Staff
Newport and Sullivan Lake Ranger Districts
Colville National Forest
Telephone: 509-447-7322
E-mail: dwilkins@fs.fed.us
************************************
Here is a sample letter for off-road motorcycle users:
Date
Name
Street Address
Address
RE: Letter of Support for Jane Musser Fund Grant
Dear Mr. Brazell:
I am writing, on behalf of myself and others who recreate with off-road motorcycles on the Colville National Forest, to express my support of the Colville’s use of the Recreation Travel Strategy Working group and the on-going use of collaboration to resolve recreation issues on the forest. Collaboration is essential to resolve the issues of accessing and sharing public lands.
I understand the purpose of this grant is to assist organizations in promoting land management stewardship through collaboration. I fully support the forest service using these funds to pay for collaborative resources, such as work shops, facilitators, and as match for other grants the forest service may be seeking.
The Colville National Forest has an inadequate number of trail miles and connecting trails to meet the demand. I went to the Newport Ranger district collaborative meetings to express my concerns about these issues and help the forest service address them. This grant would greatly benefit our efforts to manage the collaborative process. I would like to see the Jane Musser Fund Grant go through.
Sincerely,
Name
Title