By Emery Cowan | Arizona Daily Sun
The more than 200,000 letters and emails that flooded into the Kaibab National Forest in response to a road easement application by the town of Tusayan are the most comments on a single issue the forest has received in recent memory, said Jackie Banks, spokeswoman for the Kaibab.
The vast majority of those comments opposed approval of the easement because of the large-scale development project it would allow. The authors cited concerns about impacts to water resources, Grand Canyon National Park and the surrounding environment.
