Alternatives to the use of toxic herbicides should be developed and applied as part of the forest's demonstration mission. As the forest has serious invasive plant pest problems due to episodes of misguided management, JDSF is in an ideal position to seek scientific guidance on solutions, and determine which ones work best. A road maintenance plan should be implemented immediately and should also be used to educate the public. Bad roads are major contributors to water quality and salmon spawning problems, and people need to know effective ways to fix them. Finally, any money generated by the forest should go exclusively to improving the forest.
Natural forest is precious and increasingly rare.
We need a Management Plan that protects our public land. Until this year the forest has received a inadequate level of maintenance money, in spite of generating tens of millions of dollars for the state budget. Consequently there is now a large backlog of road and facility maintenance needs. Major streams include the Noyo River and Big River watersheds. Many streams in the forest support coho salmon and steelhead trout, both listed as threatened by the federal government.