Holding the Forest Service Accountable

My Dad gave me his 3 timeless axioms for a successful and happy life when I was but a youngster and those are:

1 -Be a man of your word

2 -Be to work on time

3 - Dont let people pour water down your neck and tell you it is raining (his original version was more graphic)

Back in 2001/2002, Forest Service officials looked me square in the eye and promised that the California Route Inventory and Designation Process (RID) - now known as the Travel Management Rule - would not be used as a closure tool to get RID of trails.

Turn the clock forward to today where the Shasta Trinity National Forest is proposing to close basically all of their 800 miles of single-track motorcycle trails and ATV trails less than 50 inches in width. Be assured, I am and will be asking the Forest Service to keep their word. You should do the same.

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• dirt bikes
• travel management
• rTMR
• oute designation
• mottos for life
• blueribbon coalition

[jessehaley615]

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[franciscomrls0]

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[Derbo250x]

Zero access is your answer? That is ridiculous. The fire was as bad as it was because of poor resource management. The fire was terrible and the mudslides after were horrific. Everyone agrees to that...The AZ forests are terribly managed and the results are fires that grow to catastrophic degrees.

A lightening strike could of done the very same thing.....forest densities have been at critical levels for 2 decades. Sierra Clubbers need to get beat with a stick!

[VanessaSky25]

I live in NorthEastern Arizona.......and now we have the Wallow fire.. and do you want to know why??? because certain IDIOTS want to have acess to the trails and forests even when they SHOULD NOT BE OUT THERE. I think that absolutely NOBODY should have any access to the trails or forests during the dry season, PERIOD. if we dont do something drastic like that, there WONT BE ANY FOREST LEFT for people to enjoy during the rainy season. so GET OVER IT!

[electricashman]

are you in Arizona, is there anything in writing? If it was only verbal then we can not use it against them. They destroyed the Gap Kissing rock and say they will trade by not doing maintenance on Chivo, but in reality they will be closing the pools. Road 4405-10.34R-1

[rockcrawlr7]

That may be the case here is southern AZ, but if you look at what happened in the Eldorado National Forest in northern CA (where the Rubicon Trail is), a large percentage of the established, numbered forestry road were closed due to this new "plan".

[periodicglimpse24]

A lot of people are up in arms about the Forest "closing" all their roads. What they fail to understand is the majority of those roads are illegal in the first place they are user created trails that shouldnt be there and they cause a huge negative enviornmental impact. I am from AZ and they are currently in the process and yes there are lots of roads closing down but if you compare the TM map to the forest map we arent losing any roads