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U.S. Forestry Service ends public comment on massive project
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The United States Forestry Service is ending the public comment portion of their newly proposed Foothills Landscape Project, a massive undertaking that includes logging, burning, rerouting trails, herbicide use, and building service roads through roughly 157,000 acres of the 750,145-acre park. According to a Forestry Service press release, “[t]he project is designed to maintain and restore healthy forest, habitat and watershed conditions across 157,625-acres within the Chattahoochee National Forest in portions of Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Rabun and White Counties.”