Comment Deadline:
Send
Comments to:
Lochsa
Ranger District, Kamiah Ranger Station
Attn: Lois
Foster, Interdisciplinary Team Leader
Rt.
Email: comments-northern-clearwater@fs.fed.us
Once
again snowmobilers are faced with the potential loss of popular
riding areas. This time it is occurring
in the
http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/uploads/SAWS-BRC-TSA_Action_Alert_-_Region1_Management_Policy.htm
At this
stage we are providing some more information and asking that people familiar
with the area give us something more to work with. We have received some very helpful responses
so far. We are also asking that you
please pass this information along to as many people familiar with the area
that you know.
The index
for location of the following maps can be found at this link:
http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/07/misc/Clearwater_index_area.pdf
Main Map
Page – Snowmobilers are only concerned with the Winter Area Maps
http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/Projects/TravPlan/Maps.htm#AreaMaps
These
maps provide township & range information.
I went through some 100K maps of the area and have added some landmarks
to help folks orient themselves.
Map D - http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/Projects/TravPlan/Assets/Alt_1/Maps/Winter/alt1_areaD_winter.pdf
Area
south of Larkins Peak, Crag Peak, Heart Peak, Mallard
Peak, Collins Peak & Surveyors Peak.
Map E - http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/Projects/TravPlan/Assets/Alt_1/Maps/Winter/alt1_areaE_winter.pdf
Area
south of Collins Peak, Surveyors Peak, Pole Mountain, & Five Lakes Butte;
area north of The Nub & Collins Creek Cabin.
Map F - http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/Projects/TravPlan/Assets/Alt_1/Maps/Winter/alt1_areaF_winter.pdf
Area west
of the Montana state line beginning with Hoodoo Pass to the north and heading
south through Heart Lake, Fish Lake, Cedar Log Lakes, Kid Lake, Admiral Peak,
Shale Mountain, Granite Peak, Pilot Knob, Rocky Peak.
Map G - http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/Projects/TravPlan/Assets/Alt_1/Maps/Winter/alt1_areaG_winter.pdf
Area
north of and adjacent to the Selway-Bitterroot
designated wilderness area. Area south of Beaver Ridge Lookout, area
northeast of Colt Creek Cabin, and area in and around Hoodoo Lake and Hoodoo
Mountain.
We would
like to get a final action alert out by January 3 because the comment deadline
is January 11. If people would put just
a little time into giving us some specific information, we can probably make a
difference at this stage of the process.
Please contact Janine (JanineS-MT@Snowmobile-Alliance.org
or me (ScottC-ID@Snowmobile-Alliance.org)
with any information you may have before January 3.
Important: The Idaho State Snowmobile
Association is planning on putting together a meeting shortly after the New
Year somewhere in the area. They will
need your help putting together their comments, also known as comments on
behalf of all Idaho snowmobilers whether they are ISSA members or not. Please contact Sandra Mitchell for more
information or if you are able to help out.
She can be reached at 208-424-3870 or at smitchel@alscott.com
Thank you all for your interest in and dedication to
protecting YOUR right to ride.
Scott.
Snowmobile Alliance
of Western States
Protecting the right to ride for the owners of 303,604
registered snowmobiles (2005) in the western
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