When a project is proposed for Forest Service land that is likely to significantly affect the human environment, the Forest Service is required to write an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the potential cumulative, direct, and indirect effects of the project. However, “cumulative effects” as defined by the Forest Service do not necessarily include the full suite of social and economic effects, or how they are overlaid with a changing climate that is likely to decrease future snowfall, water supplies, ecosystem health, and overall quality of human health and well being. It is crucial that we push the Forest Service to examine not only the specific tangible impacts of this project, but also consider the full suite of changes, and their implications to intangibles such as the character of our communities and our unique rural culture.