| OHV routes
(Note: Straight from the belly of the beast ... )
February 18, 2003
From: joyceburk@earthlink.net (Joyce Burk) Sender: CONS-CNRCC-SOCAL-FORESTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG (So Calif Forests) Reply-to: CONS-CNRCC-SOCAL-FORESTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG (So Calif Forests) To: CONS-CNRCC-SOCAL-FORESTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Monica Bond of the Center For Biological Diversity would like us to come up with a list of OHV routes that should be closed. I know of one on the San Bernardino NF that the Forest Service has been promising to shut down for years: 3N95 - Coxey Creek Jeep Trail (It does irreparable harm to key riparian habitat. 3N95 crosses a lovely desert stream many times.) Can the any of you come up with other routes of which you have witnessed damage such as the example given above? Please send a description OHV route and the damage being done to me by February 28. Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Bond" To: joyceburk Sent: February 18, 2003 Subject: OHV routes Daniel Patterson from the Center for Biological Diversity is working on influencing the state OHV Commission for funding to close and rehabilitate particularly bad ORV routes. He wondered whether we could provide him with ORV routes in the Four Southern California National Forests towards which we can steer funding for closure and obliteration. He said they don't have to be currently closed but it is helpful if the agency already supports closing of that route (but not necessarily the only routes). These should be particularly egregious routes that we place on high priority list for closure and rehabilitation. Can we put together a list of specific routes and their locations as well as important issues connected with each route (why we want it closed -- i.e., trespass, threatened/endangered species habitat) for Daniel? Perhaps in the next couple of days? Thanks, Monica L. Bond, Staff Biologist Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 493 Idyllwild, CA 92549 909-659-6053 x304 Fax: 909-659-2484 Protecting endangered species and wild places through science, policy, education, and environmental law. |