Community Forest Lands (ACFL)

Subject: Internal Combustion Engine Motorcycles in the ACFL -Council 03/16/26 Public Hearing on the ACFL Forest Plan From: Mark B. Nihart Internal Combustion Engine Motorcycles (Motorcycles) should be banned from the ACFL. The Forest Advisory Board (FAB) and Parks eliminated the summer Hydroplane Races on Heart Lake. Later they eliminated use of internal combustion engines on Heart Lake (and other ACFL lakes).  This greatly protected the wildlife on the lake and surrounding the lake from…

Subject: 2026 FP Security Comment – Council 03/16/26 Public Hearing on the ACFL 2026 Forest Plan. From: Mark B. Nihart The ACFL Forest Plan (FP) presented at the Council Meeting Monday Feb 23 is a good improvement over the 2021 plan, mostly in format and edits for readability. The FP, however, should have a cost reduction strategy and an efficiency strategy to maximize expensive and limited staff resources.   The Forest Plan (FP) should have…

Subject: 2026 ACFL Wildland Fire Management Strategy and Prevention – Council 03/16/26 Public Hearing on the ACFL 2026 Forest Plan. Subject: ACFL Wildland Fire Management Strategy and Prevention From: Mark B. Nihart The Forest Plan (FP) section on Wildland Fire Management is good.  However, it should just be a short paragraph then link to Anacortes Fire Department’s (AFD) Wildland Fire Management Plan for the ACFL. The AFD owns the Wildland Fire Management in the ACFL.…