Proposed efforts, including a commercial timber harvest, in the Blue Ridge Ranger District of the Gainesville-based Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest have come under fire from some environmental groups. “We have serious concerns about the wisdom (and legality) of many aspects of this project and, to be clear, are firmly opposed to elements of it,” states a 37-page June 6 letter from Dahlonega-based Georgia ForestWatch, Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville, Va., and the Decatur-based Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club. “This project is a significant departure from other large projects ... that were less objectionable because they did not target the most biologically rich stands on the forest, as this project does, and included ecological restoration efforts.”