Keeping an eye on our forests
For over 23 years Georgia ForestWatch volunteers, our District Leaders, have kept watch over the 865,000 acres of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. Over that time we have learned to use the laws that regulate USDA Forest Service management of national forests. We now find ourselves as the only organization in Georgia uniquely equipped to navigate this complex bureaucracy in support of our forests.
How we watch the U.S. Forest Service
Overview of how we watch and the laws that affect our work
The NEPA process in action
The NEPA process is extremely complex. The below examples are "snapshots" of NEPA in action here at Georgia ForestWatch. Each is a glimpse at one step of a much larger process in which ForestWatch has been participating, meeting, collaborating and commenting. The following links are U.S. Forest Service proposals and Georgia ForestWatch’s response.
- Armuchee Ridges
- Click below for various parts of the USFS Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)
- Click here for ForestWatch's response to the Draft EA
