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Need your help Memorial Day Weekend

There are a few of us on Pirate 4X4 Land Use section that have come up with an idea to get the word out on Route Designation.

We are making up and distributing these flyers over the weekend. It's a great opportunity to reach the folks that may not know their favorite trails are being closed.

This is our last summer to experience our forests as we know them.:(

Please feel free to make any changes to wording or format, and take them with you on your club/groups weekend run. Distribute them on the trail, and in campfrounds.

DO NOT POST, hand them out or put them on cars/trucks.

Quote:

Will your favorite Camping spot or OHV trail still be here when you come back????

The Route Designation process will CLOSE thousands of miles of trails from your National Forests and BLM Land.

Most people are unaware of what is happening within the <<insert your forests name here>>, under the Route Designation Program, the forest service is proposing to close THOUSANDS of miles of mostly dirt roads to ANY motorized vehicle.

THIS WILL EFFECT, 4 WHEEL DRIVE ENTHUSIASTS, OHV RIDERS, CAMPERS, EQUESTRIANS, HUNTERS AND FISHERMAN!!

The final drafts will be released to the public this summer and finalized by the end of this year, once this happens you have only 45 days ask for your favorite trails to be left open.

So what can you do? GET informed GET involved GET heard!!!.

Go to the <<insert your forests name here>>and find your favorite forest(s). Locate that forests Route Designation Page. (they are sometimes difficult to find, but they are there)

<<insert your forests route designation weblink here>>

Review the PRELIMINARY ALTERNATIVES maps. Find your favorite camping areas and trails. Are they scheduled to be closed ???

If they are, get on the MAILING LIST, get involved in the public meetings and the conference calls, and when the final decision is made you will be notified.

You will only have ONE opportunity to address your trails, and to tell the <<insert your forests name here>>why you want it left open.

THEN get as many people involved as you can, don?t sit back and let this happen unknowingly.

Learn and practice responsible resource use, treading lightly, packing it in and packing it out.

HELP KEEP OUR PUBLIC LANDS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

If you have no interest in this information please pass it on to someone who may.

Please do not litter.

Re: Need your help Memorial Day Weekend

BTT for the weekend.

I printed 100 copies on bright pink paper!!

Re: Need your help Memorial Day Weekend

So what's route designation? I think I know what it means, but what is it officially?

Re: Need your help Memorial Day Weekend

Here is a link to the Eldorado National forest http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado/pro...te/index.shtml

And if you go to the Colorado National Forest sites

http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/map/...shtml#Colorado

Colorado
Arapaho National Forest
Comanche National Grassland
Grand Mesa National Forest
Gunnison National Forest
Pawnee National Grassland
Pike National Forest
Rio Grande National Forest
Roosevelt National Forest
Routt National Forest
San Isabel National Forest
San Juan National Forest
Uncompahgre National Forest
White River National Forest

You'll find which ones in your area are involved in the program. http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/gmug/policy/...mt/index.shtml

Re: Need your help Memorial Day Weekend

Blue Ribbon Coalition is a good way to keep updated on issues in your area:

http://www.sharetrails.org/alerts/index.cfm?mr=598

Action Alert: Gunnison Basin Draft Travel Maps Released for Review
Date: May 14, 2007

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BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT!

Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,

Attention Colorado Recreationists!

The Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are developing a Proposed Action for the transportation system for the Gunnison Basin. These agencies will be holding meetings during May and June for the public to review draft maps of the preliminary proposed action for that transportation system. Your involvement is vital to the success of this travel planning effort, so don't wait, get involved now!

The meeting will include a PowerPoint presentation on the travel analysis process, which will begin at 5:45 pm, followed by the opportunity to review and comment on the maps in small groups between 6:30 -8:00 p.m. Draft maps for the all areas will be available for review; however, maps of public lands in the vicinity of meeting locations will be emphasized.

These meetings are scheduled from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the following locations:

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Paonia Town Hall
214 Grand Avenue
Paonia, CO

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Gunnison County Fairgrounds (Multi-Purpose Room)
(Fred R. Field Western Heritage Center)
275 S. Spruce Street
Gunnison, CO

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Crested Butte Community School
818 Red Lady Avenue
Crested Butte, CO

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Lake City Community School
(Middle/HS Wing, Room 6/8)
614 Silver Street
Lake City, CO

The finalized inter-agency travel plan will designate which roads or trails on BLM and FS lands within the Gunnison area are open to motorized travel. A Motorized Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) will depict routes open to motorized travel on these public lands. The MVUM will be available to the public and will be the primary tool used to determine compliance and enforcement with motorized and mechanized vehicle use designations on the ground.

Remember, those existing routes and other user-created routes not designated open on the MVUM will be legally closed to motorized and mechanized travel. The decisions on motorized and mechanized travel do not include over-snow travel or existing winter-use recreation.

Public feedback during this formal public scoping period will help refine important travel issues and develop alternatives to the transportation system that will be further evaluated through the environmental impact assessment process (NEPA). Comments concerning the scope of analysis must be received on or before August 31, 2007. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) is expected to be released in early 2008 with a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and decision later in 2008.

To view the draft maps or other information on Gunnison travel, please check the GMUG National Forest website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/gmug/policy/travel_mgmt/. If you would like to be on the Gunnison Travel mailing list, please email r2_gmug_gunnison_travel@fs.fed.usor call (970) 874-6637 with your email or mailing address.

Gunnison Travel Management Plan Maps can be viewed on the Forest Service website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/gmug/policy/...gun_maps.shtml.

PLEASE, IF YOU RECREATE IN THE GUNNISON AREA, GET INVOLVED NOW!

Thanks in advance for your support,
Brian Hawthorne
BlueRibbon Coalition
208-237-1008 ext 102