eldorado trails

[poose]

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado/projects/route/pm-schedule/index.shtml Anyone who is around or uses these trails may want to study these maps, they are going to be the new trails due to closures. Write letters attend these meetings you will be suprised on what they are planing to do with our trails. These closures can change at any time without notice. So you better check before doing trips to Ca. These are also dates of meetings that are organized very screwed . The one I attended yesterday was during the Jeepers Jamboree where most people who would attend are unavailable to attend because they are on the Rubicon.

 

[Shipwreck]

Thanks for posting this at MUD Poose. This is the real deal guys. The Forest Service is shutting down existing trails permanently. Other trails are marked for potential seasonal closures, which have historically led to permanent closure. The only thing that can help prevent this is if people write letters to comment on specific roads and trails.
It is important that the offroad community has a strong presence at these regional meetings. I'm planning to attend the Concord meeting the evening of August 2nd. Come out and join me to show our support.

 

[450 DUDE]

Sad to say these guys are correct.


It would be a good thing to email your comments to the USFS.
From what I got out of the meeting there looking for specific comments on the DEIS.


ken

 

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[chicago]

Sad to say these guys are correct.


It would be a good thing to email your comments to the USFS.
From what I got out of the meeting there looking for specific comments on the DEIS.


ken

What kind of comments?
Id love to contribute any way I can, but unfortunately I dont know the trails too well to be of any REAL use!

Chicago

 

[Shipwreck]

What kind of comments?
Id love to contribute any way I can, but unfortunately I dont know the trails too well to be of any REAL use!

Chicago

Have you been on the Rubicon Trail?

How about Deer Valley? Slickrock? Strawberry Trail? Barrett Lake?

These trails as well as many more unpaved roads and trails are in danger. To find out more details about the Eldorado National Forest program in particular see this link:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado/projects/route/index.shtml

For everyone else on MUD who is not directly affected by the current attention on the Eldorado Forest system; think again. This is a national review process. All of the National Forests in the United States are currently undergoing or soon will begin this review process. In basic terms, the USDA which controls the National Forest System has identified off-road use as a major threat to our forest systems. They are reviewing all existing roads and trails within the system and will make decisions on which are to remain open, which to restrict access and which to close permanently. Once these decisions have been made there is no going back. The decisions will be permanent.
They have already spent a couple years identifying roads and trails for closure and have already drafted several environmental impact statements. These environmental impact reports will include the recommendations for trail closures. They are currently at the stage where they are taking comments from the public on specific trails and roads. If there is no significant response from the public as to the fate of a trail, the decision for closure will be made according to forest system recommendations. There is a 45 day comment period that is about to end. This is the only time that comments will be considered before the final impact statements are decided. This is our last chance to influence the National Forest System and let them know that there is a significant need for off-road recreation.
For letter writing tips see Del Albright's Friends of the Rubicon website:
http://www.delalbright.com/Articles/letters.htm

or the Pirate4x4 Land use forum:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18
You don't need to be intimately familiar with a trail. Just go to the Eldo forest website posted above, find the route designation map with all of the proposed closures, pick a road and write a simple letter stating that you would not want to see it on the closure list because it restricts you and your families' access to public land.

 

[Shipwreck]

For those who never wander into the land use forum here at MUD, Cougarfreak has posted most of the information I mentioned here in a dedicated thread about the Eldorado Forest closures.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=166779

He has all of the public meeting locations and times listed. There are still a few meetings left. Come on peoples. Lets show up and voice our opinions.

 

[chicago]

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!!
I MISSED the markleville meeting....I F'd up the date!
I looked into the Pleasant Valley meeting, but its 3.5 hrs away from here MID WEEK! Im gonna try and make it if by some miracle I have the Friday off!

Besides the letter, is there anything else I can do?
From the meeting notes, and the comments posted by other wheelers regarding the meetings attended, its seems as if they are hell bent on A LOT of closures regardless of what the masses think!
The before and after map really hits home the scale of what they intend to do!

Im VERY SORRY to see this happen and even more so that Im being introduced to this topic SO LATE in the game!

Ill be making the "land use" forum a regular stop from now on!

Chicago