Date: 06/25/2009 pstrongBLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT!/strong/p pstrongDear BRC Action Alert Subscriber, /strong/p pstrongWallowa-Whitman National Forest Motorized Travel Management DEIS Now Available/strong/p pThe Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, located in northeastern Oregon, has released their Travel Management Plan Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for public review and comment./p pThe Forest Service (FS) is asking for your input during a 60-day comment period, which will end on August 18, 2009.The public is invited to suggest changes, provide new information, and offer other alternatives. Your comments will assist in completing the analysis for travel management, and following the FS review of the comments received, a final EIS will be issued with a Record of Decision detailing the decision points./p pA preferred alternative for this project has not been identified./p pThe DEIS Document, Maps, and Executive Summary are available on the Forest's website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/w-w/projects/travel-management-plan/index-deis.shtml/p pPublic comments are invited on the DEIS. Comments should be as specific as possible. It is also helpful if comments refer to specific pages or chapters of the DEIS. Before commenting, the public is urged to review the DEIS, including appendices and associated maps, and learn more about the current status of the project and the comment process at one of the public workshops.nbsp;br / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; br / strongSend Written Comments To:nbsp;/strongbr / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Steve Ellis, Forest Supervisorbr / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Wallowa-Whitman National Forestbr / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; P.O. Box 907br / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Baker City, OR 97814/p pThose submitting hand-delivered comments may do so during regular office hours, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to any Wallowa-Whitman District Office, Monday through Friday, except legal holidays./p pstrongSend Electronic Comments To:/strongbr / nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; comments-pacificnorthwest-wallowa-whitman@fs.fed.us/p pPlease put quot;strongTravel Management DEIS/strongquot; in the subject line of email comments. Acceptable formats are email message, Microsoft Word (.doc), plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Comments should include your name and address./p p style="text-align: center"strongCOMMENT DEADLINE IS AUGUST 18, 2009/strong/p pFor more information, please contact Steve Ellis, Forest Supervisor, at (541) 523-6391./p pstrongJUST REMEMBER, PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IS CRUCIAL TO KEEP RECREATION AREAS OPEN, PLEASE GET INVOLVED!/strong/p pstrongThanks in advance for your support,/strongbr / Ric Fosterbr / Public Lands Department Managerbr / BlueRibbon Coalitionbr / 208-237-1008 ext 107/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlueRibbonCoalition/~4/B46PTmUTt3Q" height="1" width="1"/
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