Glad to see open dialogue at town hall meeting on proposed logging

The News Journal – Our founding fathers were some pretty smart folks. When they created this country, they did so with the idea of giving the people a way to peacefully address their grievances with the government.

On Nov. 17, we got to see this in action locally as about 100 people gathered at the Whitley County Cooperative Extension Office for a town hall meeting with the U.S. Forest Service over a proposal to log a portion of the Daniel Boone National Forest on Jellico Mountain, including clear cutting about 1,000 acres of land.

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