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COMMENTS NEEDED: GREAT BURN

Scott

Scott Stiegler
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The public comment period for riding areas in the great burn ends on April 20th.

This could be our last chance ever to get this area back.

Send unique comments.
Don't send a form letter.
Tell them how you don't see mountain goats, let alone chase them off to their death.
Talk about the economic impact on local communities.
Talk about this as a historical riding areas.
Name some landmarks (look at the links in including).
Talk about the minimal impact of snowmobiles.
Respond right away.









 

kidwoo

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Hey @Scott , your facebook links aren't showing up.

Is this the Nez Pierce forest plan revision?
 
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TreewellDweller

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The Nez Perce Clearwater National Forest is just north of the Payette National Forest. The Payette Forest lays south of the Salmon River, east of the Snake River and west of the Salmon Challis Forest.
The Payette Forest has 2 large Recommended Wilderness Areas (RWA) that have some incredible snowmobiling opportunities but snowmobiling has been restricted/eliminated. These 2 areas also had historically been open to snowmobiling but for the last 20 years it has been restricted or closed. The Payette Forest surrounds the communities of Cascade, McCall, and New Meadows with some of the best snowmobiling in the region, as you folks from Boise, Meridian, Nampa, and Caldwell realize.
If the Great Burn is not opened to snowmobiling only because it is a RWA, then rest assured, when the Payette Forest does it's "Travel Plan" renewal in a couple of years we will see the same result.
The science that they claim for the closure in regards to wildlife is not adequate and mostly incorrect, due to over zealous biologists and activists doing the studies.
Now is the time to make a comment on this issue. Even if you don't recreate in the Nez Perce Clearwater Forest, you need to make a comment.
And, I mean "NOW". Comments close on April 20th.
 
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Scott

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The links are showing for me.
Can anyone else see them?

This is the Montana/Idaho state line.
 
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