The future of many of your National Forest multiple use trails are looking pretty bleak right now.
Sequoia Kern River District Ranger Al Watson just
cancelled Stewards of the Sequoia volunteer trail maintenance agreement
of 15 years, prohibiting Stewards from doing 300 miles of
needed Sequoia trail maintenance this year and forever.
The real losers here are the trails and the public. I hope you will https://www.opencampaign.com/petition/forest-service-terminates-award-winning-volunteers/8183" rel="nofollow - sign the petition to reinstate the Stewards of the Sequoia Volunteer Agreement now and urge everyone you know to sign it also.
We need thousands of signatures showing overwhelming support for
Stewards volunteerism, and objecting to this unjustified termination. We
need your help to get Stewards volunteers back working on Sequoia
trails.
Per his termination letter Ranger Watson has
no issue with any of Stewards trail work and thanks Stewards for
their service, but he feels we are not good partners because
Stewards object to the PCT Corridor and question the validity of
the 2010 Piute Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM). These are freedom of
speech issues, totally unrelated to volunteer trail maintenance.
Ranger Watson should not be allowed to terminate our volunteer
trail maintenance program based on anything other than our trail
work. Stewards have not violated any law or regulation, we just
do tons of hard trail work.
https://www.opencampaign.com/petition/forest-service-terminates-award-winning-volunteers/8183" rel="nofollow - CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION TO REINSTATE STEWARDS VOLUNTEER AGREEMENT
Please ask everyone you know to sign the petition. Feel free to forward this email to your friends and family.
https://www.opencampaign.com/petition/forest-service-terminates-award-winning-volunteers/8183" rel="nofollow">
Stewards Volunteers are no longer allowed to maintain Sequoia Trails in Sequoia National Forest
As a Forest partner since 2004, Stewards of the
Sequoia volunteers have performed so much valuable work to
prevent erosion and keep trails enjoyable for everyone including
clearing over 10,000 downed trees, maintaining over 5000 water
bars and brushing hundreds of miles of trails. Without Stewards
work, many trails would be impassable which would harm tourism
and concentrate use. The Forest Service is unable to perform this
work. The Forest Service needs to renew the partnership to allow
Stewards to continue maintaining Sequoia trails.
The Forest Service is supposed to encourage
volunteerism, not turn away willing and able partners like
Stewards of the Sequoia with a proven track record of maintaining
over 300 miles of trails each year.
You can read our letter to Supervisor Benson asking to be reinstated http://stewardsofthesequoia.org/PDFs/SOS-2020%20SequoiaKernRiverTermination.pdf" rel="nofollow - HERE , as well as Ranger Al's termination letter http://stewardsofthesequoia.org/PDFs/SOS%20Volunteer%20Termination%20Letter-BINDER.pdf" rel="nofollow - HERE
Be sure to https://www.opencampaign.com/petition/forest-service-terminates-award-winning-volunteers/8183" rel="nofollow - sign the petition NOW
Thanks for standing up for volunteerism and for the right to free speech.
http://www.stewardsofthesequoia.org" rel="nofollow"> Together we can keep our trails open
You can learn more about Stewards of the Sequoia http://stewardsofthesequoia.org/who_we_are.aspx" rel="nofollow - HERE
Chris Horgan
Executive Director
Stewards of the Sequoia
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