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SEQUOIA Trail Plan Workshops
Updated 2/1/09 |
The Sequoia Forest is hosting
workshops to discuss their proposed plan for which trails will
remain open to motorized use. We hope you can attend and voice
your support for keeping trails open
FROM THE FOREST PRESS RELEASE-
The focus of the next 60-days will be to
communicate what is in the Draft EIS, to help the public
understand the proposal, to review the analysis, and to attend
public meetings to discuss issues and concerns. Following the
analysis of public comments, Forest Supervisor Terrell will make
a final decision and create a Final Environmental Impact
Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD). This decision is
scheduled to be made late spring, 2009.
Five public workshops will be held throughout
forest communities to display maps and information, and explain
key features of the document. The workshop schedule is:
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Location |
Date |
Time |
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Kerr-McGee Center/ Fossil Falls Room
100 W. California Ave., Ridgecrest, CA |
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
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Forest Supervisors Office
1839 S. Newcomb, Porterville, CA |
Saturday, February 21, 2009 |
9:30 am - 11:30 am |
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Clarion Hotel
3540 Rosedale Highway, Bakersfield, CA |
Saturday, February 21, 2009 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
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Lake Isabella
Location To Be Announced later. |
Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
9:30 am - 11:30 am |
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Clarion Hotel
3540 Rosedale Highway, Bakersfield, CA |
Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
The workshops and open houses are opportunities
for interested people to drop in during the event hours to
informally meet with Forest Service staff and learn about the
Draft EIS. Each meeting will feature maps and other information
that illustrate and explain an overall travel management system.
Displays and Forest Service personnel will be on hand to help
guide people to the information they want.
The Draft EIS, ten maps representing the
alternatives, and other project information will soon be
available on the Sequoia National Forest website at
www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia/projects/ohv_route_designation, or
a CD with the Draft EIS and maps can be requested by email from
sequoiaroutes@fs.fed.us, or by contacting Chris Sanders,
Project Team Leader, at (559) 784.1500.
This travel management project is part of a
Forest Service initiative designed to address the impacts of
unmanaged recreation on the health of national forests. The DEIS
proposes to regulate and manage wheeled motor vehicle use in the
Sequoia National Forest and to identify roads and trails where
this use will be allowed. It also addresses seasonal closures of
wheeled motor vehicle routes. Other National Forests in
California are developing similar management direction.
See the whole press release here:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia/news/releases/2009/01/travel-mgmt.html
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