GruntledHere's Asheville Watchdog on the proposed drastic shortening of the public comment period for National Forest operations:
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rule changes would end requirements to publish in local newspapers, limit comment periods to 10 day, require responses to be in machine-readable format [AI??] and objections would go from independent review to review by the same official who created the plan being objected to.
Rule comments end 3/9:
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2026-0001-0001
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