Letter to The Editor

Letter to the Editor: Coconino Forest Plan Update

August 18, 2016No Comments

By Mike Yarbrough
Executive Vice-President, Keep Sedona Beautiful
(August 18, 2016)

In early 2015 the Forest Service prepared and presented to the public a draft plan for the operation of the Coconino National Forest. Keep Sedona Beautiful provided comprehensive and detailed comments and suggestions to this plan. These comments were developed after several meetings with the Forest Service Plan Team and after extensive review and analysis of the plan.

In May of this year the Forest Service notified key interested parties, including KSB, that a revised draft of the plan was available for review. As a part of that submission KSB was able to review the response of the Forest Service to the earlier comments provided by KSB. In conversations with the Forest Service Plan Team we were advised that the Forest Service would receive and consider additional comments from KSB. Therefore, in early August KSB presented to the Forest Service additional comments and suggestions to the plan.

We wanted to share with you the acknowledgment we received (below) from the Forest Service to these additional comments. The board of KSB believes that the efforts of those preparing and presenting comments to the Forest Service to this plan on behalf of KSB represents an exemplary model for vigorous advocacy for the environment presented in a collaborative and respectful manner. As you can see the Forest Service greatly appreciates the spirit of the KSB submissions and recognizes the substantial effort put into this process by KSB.

Acknowledgement from the Forest Service: “Thank you for the feedback on our draft response to comments that we shared back in May. We will review these suggestions over the next few weeks and see if we can make adjustments to better respond to Keep Sedona Beautiful’s concerns. We appreciate the spirit in which these suggestions have been made. We also appreciate the substantial effort KSB has put into our plan revision process and your ongoing interest.”

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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