Clearwater National Forest - Travel Plan Comment Period Ends October 2nd

I wrote in for the 1st one and I got a TON of crap in the mail but I emailed them again. I would hate to have to ride Surveyor illegally from now on.

SAWS Alert for CNF Travel Plan

Here is a link to the most recent SAWS Alert on this issue. The alert has not been sent to all of our members yet, but will be shortly.

http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/Action_Alerts/09/SAWS_Action_Alert_-_CNF_Travel_Plan_-_DEIS.htm

last nights meeting in orofino

Well I went to the meeting last night. 5 1\2 hours of driving for 2 1\2 hours of meeting. The forest service talked and explained the different alternatives.

The meeting was attended by the local chamber of commerce, local dealers, the Idaho dept of parks and lands, a representative of Senator Risch a large delegation of the Idaho state snowmobile association, local users and a saws representative. The groups where glad to see someone from saws at the meetings. Everyone there was in support of snowmobiling and the main talk of the meeting was on the great burn since there will be no closure of groomed trails in any of the viable alternative, which are b, c, and d.



Doug Goober the lead forest service worker on this deis did let us know that alt a cannot be selected. It is the base line to show what the real alternative change.

Sandra Mitchell reinforced to all of us present that alt a cannot be selected as an alternative. Doug also stated that alternative b does meet the legal needs of change and is a viable option. However he also reinforced that the forest service is not a democracy and if you right letters in support of a, you are wasting your time. Sandra and I also felt this way as so did everyone else in the room.


Please when you write letters to the forest service go with alt b. Alt a is a waste of everyone time and energy. The forest service is saying they wont even consider it. Lets be unitied for once since this is the alt that everyone at the meeting is going to push.

thanks
tim

SAWS suggests selecting Alternative A. No change. Alt A, and Alt B are nearly identical, except Alt B includes closing the entire forest until November 15th, to snowmobiles.