Tongass National Forest
Federal Building
648 Mission Street
Ketchikan, AK 99901

(907) 228-3101
(907) 228-6222 (TTY)

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Web Manager
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Identify New Concerns

The potential concerns that have been identified and included in the current list of concerns represent a fairly comprehensive look at the Forest Plan today. However, because the Tongass National Forest is a dynamic evolving entity, management of the Tongass also has to be dynamic through time. Change is constant, and it is reasonable to expect new potential concerns or Forest Plan related opportunities to be identified by the Forest Service or members of the public.

New potential concerns or opportunities can be assessed using the tools included in the Forest Plan Maintenance Program to determine if they are in fact new items to be considered. If they are deemed to indeed be new items, a Concern Worksheet will be developed for them and they will be added to the current list of concerns available for assignment. Note that being available for assignment is subject to priorities and resources available to be assigned to work on any given concern.

To facilitate ease of submitting new Forest Plan related concerns or opportunities, two options are available:

  1. You can submit your potential new Forest Plan related concern by regular mail to:
    2. Tongass National Forest
    Attn: Forest Planning
    648 Mission Street
    Ketchikan, AK 99901
  2. You can submit your potential new Forest Plan related concern electronically below:

    3. A template is provided which is consistent with the template used for the Concern Statement Worksheets. You can view the worksheet Concern Worksheet Guide to see how the Forest Service has completed the existing Concern Statements. In the template, only the Concern Statement section is a required field. Note that the template does not allow attachments. Also note that your name and address are required fields so that we can contact you if needed to discuss the potential new concern with you. The Tongass Forest Planner will look at these submissions on a periodic basis (monthly or quarterly), and add new concerns when applicable to the current Concern Statement list. When you click on the 'submit new concern' button, a pop-up message will indicate acceptance of the submission. No e-mail message to you will be automatically generated by your submission.

Submit New Concern Statement
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