Offroading

I just found out about a meeting that was scheduled for tonight at the Hootman Senior Center to discuss OHV Route Designation within our forest.

Did anyone else know about this? It's too late for me to attend, but I'd like some info from others who might have gone.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/projects/ohv.shtml

This wass received after the meeting last night:

Here is the latest on the route designation process..

FYI - We are extending the time for sending in comments on the Route
Designation project until March 9, 2007.

A letter is being mailed to this effect, but please network electronically.
Also, we are in the process of posting on our project website black and
white maps that print to standard size paper (same as the open house map
handouts. Thanks.

Richard Thornburgh
NEPA Coordinator
San Bernardino National Forest
909-382-2642 (voice); 909-383-5586 (fax)

The public is invited to review the proposal and submit comments to identify
issues. A detailed proposed action and maps are available on the SBNF
website at http:www.fs.
<http:www.fs.fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/projects/ohv.shtml>
fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/projects/ohv.shtml

Send written comments to: Richard Thornburgh, Supervisor's Office, 602 S.
Tippecanoe, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Please include the words "Route
Designation" in the subject line. Please note particular routes of concern
in the comments, by including the route identifier (e.g. 3N14) and the start
and end points (e.g. "between X and Y" .

Under the new Travel Management Rule, national level and California interest
groups representing OHV, hunting, environment, recreation, and other issues
have been involved in developing the national strategy for route
designation. The SBNF is seeking and encouraging continued participation of
interested groups and individuals in this process.

They also had a meeting DTH earlier at their new headquarters building on Tippicanoe. Few showed up but they had lots of maps and forms and welcomed comments. It seems they are fulfilling a requirement, but pretty much know what they are going to do. There was to be a third meeting somewhere else I don't recall. We should hear the decisions by June 1 I believe they said.