| OHV
PA Comments |
|
|
| DATE |
COMMENTS FROM |
COMMENT |
RESPONSE |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Ken
Markling |
With
depletion of motorized opportunities, close only routes with direct
impact to historic sites. Mapping and designation should include expansion,
not just closure. Use fencing and signing to protect sites. Come up
with a fair and equitable solution. |
Substantive
- Site specific protection measures proposed. |
| 14-Feb-05 |
Karen
Schambach: PEER |
Editorial
and clarification comments. |
Substantive
- Several editorial changes. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Pete
Eakle |
Challenges
statement about growth of OHV use on National Forests. |
Substantive
- Questions accuracy of analysis. Recommends editorial alternative. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Tribal
Elders Council, Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians |
Supports
OHV route designation program. Avoid culturally sensitive areas. Use
Native American and qualified archaeologist monitors for ground disturbance. |
Substantive
- Proposes treatments. |
| 20-Jan-05 |
Bob
Bennett: CA4WDC Central |
Reroutes
alternative to closures if monitoring demonstrates protection measures
ineffective. Not all 50 year old sites historically significant. Balance
restrictions with new trail opportunities. PA needs clear methods for
allowing routes and historic properties to coexist. Mitigations questioned.
Page specific clarifications requested. Public notification not sufficient. |
Substantive
- Multiple page specific and general comments. |
| 29-Jan-05 |
Ed
CORVA |
Multiple
page specific comments addressing details of PA. Cross-references CA4WDC
comments. |
Substantive
- Multiple changes and clarifications in language of PA. See OHV PA
Draft, Response to Comments. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Denise
McLemore: Eldorado National Forest |
Multiple
page specific comments addressing details of PA. |
Substantive
- Multiple changes and clarifications in language of PA. See OHV PA
Draft, Response to Comments. |
| 7-Feb-05 |
John
Stewart: CA4WDC |
Multiple
page specific comments addressing details of PA. |
Substantive
- Multiple changes and clarifications in language of PA. See OHV PA
Draft, Response to Comments. |
| 14-Feb-05 |
Bill
Dart: ORBA |
Multiple
page specific comments addressing details of PA. Cross-references to
comments from CA4WDC and CORVA. |
Substantive
- Multiple changes and clarifications in language of PA. See OHV PA
Draft, Response to Comments. |
| 14-Feb-05 |
Chris
Horgan: Stewards of the Sequoia |
Multiple
page specific comments addressing details of PA. Cross-references to
comments from CA4WDC and CORVA. |
Substantive
- Multiple changes and clarifications in language of PA. See OHV PA
Draft, Response to Comments. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Tom
Walsh: Save Our Forests |
OHV
recreation not appropriate on public lands. FS not managing existing uses nor following current plans.
Current use damaging heritage sites. Questions implementation with
reduced funding. Questions ability to monitor and report. |
Substantive
- Addresses use figures, funding, monitoring, and reporting. |
| 23-Jan-05 |
Phil
Hines - CDPROHV |
Page
13 - Limited testing provision may lock FS into missing other approachs
such as CARIDAPS. Page 15 - what is meaning of SPMs.
Page 49 - Should FS be designating OHV routes that have the potential
to affect historic properties. |
Substantive
- Addresses testing, protection measure, and effect provisions of PA. |
| 14-Feb-05 |
Don
Amador: BlueRibbon Coalition |
Questions
the concept of "illegality" of cross country uses; requests
terminology change. Questions use of interim forest orders. |
Substantive
- Addresses terminology change. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Jimmy
Lewis |
No
alternative to maintaining current levels of use. Will Green Sticker
funding be used for required reports? Historic property definition
open ended; could be widely used to close trails. Why no option
to keep areas open if no significant resource damage from OHV use?
OHV use is historic and should be protected. |
Substantive
- Addresses reports, funding, historic property definition. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Glencjan@aol.com |
Don't
close roads well defined by usage. Protect heritage but allow access
for public that can't or won't hike miles. Use natural barriers to
restrict access to sites. |
Substantive
- Addresses protection measures. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Joan
Brandoff-Kerr: Los Padres National Forest |
Wording
change to routine trail maintenance screened exemption. Monitoring
needs trigger point for when to change protection measure. |
Substantive
- Addresses monitoring and exeptions. |
| 7-Jan-05 |
Sandy
Ellis: Mountains Group, Sierra Club |
Supports
plan. Should be stronger. Enforcing designations priority. Limiting
areas highest priority. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 17-Jan-05 |
Clifford
Miller |
Closure
is political. Opposed to the closure of public land. No mention of
user groups. How will be funded? |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
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Ben |
Opposes
closing public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Allen
Lee |
Opposes
closing public lands to motorcycles or other vehicles. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Brad
Bellah and Family |
Opposes
closing public lands for any reason. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Chris Perry |
Opposes closing public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Frank
Honey |
Opposes
closing off-road riding areas. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Gary
Greiner |
Opposes
closing public or forest lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
James
Garland |
Opposes
closing or restricting public owned lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Jerrold
M. Parsons |
Opposes
closing public lands to OHV use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Kenny
Romano |
Opposes
closing public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Marc
DeMarco |
Opposes
closuring roads or trails on public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Mark
Winston |
Opposes
closing public access to recreational or OHV use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Michael
B???? |
Opposes
closing public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Mike
Linan |
Opposes
closing public lands to off road vehicles. Wants all trails open. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Mike
Parsons |
Opposes
closing land to OHV use. Disapproves closing public roads or trails. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Ralph
Rote |
Opposes
closing public lands. Explain value of any closure for historic reasons. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Scott
Rose |
Opposes
closing public lands for OHV access. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Stephen
Ferrara |
Opposes
closing public land to OHV use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
Steve
Abbott |
Opposes
closing public lands to OHV use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 21-Jan-05 |
William
D. Jones |
Opposes
closing forest or public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Croft
Long |
Don't
close unmapped roads because all existing routes not mapped. Closing
routes limits access to areas that people enjoy. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Jason
Scherer |
Don’t
restrict lands based on few problem users. Educate users. Look for
alternatives to closing public lands. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Jim
Garey |
Most
off-roaders stay on trails. Don’t make changes that restrict
motorcycles and ohvs. Land should be open
to all. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Kirk
Wheeler |
OHV
use has grown but available public riding areas have decreased. More
areas need to be available. Map all currently used trails as baseline;
add to, not subtract. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Mike
Reilly |
Open
space and recreation trails have been dwindling for OHVs.
Open more trails. Users can be asset to protect and maintain trails. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Peter
Cochran |
Create
specific system; allow more areas in which to disperse. Don't close
huge blocks of land. Limit or alternate trail systems. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Scott
Wallenberg |
Opposed
to any closures of routes, marked or unmarked. If already in use, keep
it available. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Spd737@aol.com |
Against
any more regulation of use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 26-Jan-05 |
Steve
Williams |
Important
to keep public lands open for recreation. Lands are important as population
grows and needs escape from cities. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
barry425@yahoo.com |
Bad
law shuts off all desert riding areas because unmapped. Riding areas
in desert have no historic properties. No more restrictive interferance with off roading. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
Ben
Johnson |
Opposes
closures of public lands; wrong. Historic sites easy to protect. Put
Green Sticker money into educating children. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
David
Behlings |
Outraged
FS taking away cross-country motorized vehicle travel. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
David
Kitchen |
Concern
about closing roads. Keep current routes open. Get public input to
making and enforcing rules. Use monitors to assist informing public
and keeping routes open. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
James
Diethrich |
Closure
is political. Opposed to the closure of public land. No mention of
user groups. How will be funded? |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
Peter
Giusti |
OHV
use beneficial to economy and family life. Proper use allows for resource
protection. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 27-Jan-05 |
Ray
Abbott |
Don’t
close any unmapped roads simply because have not successfully mapped
them. Maintain a balance perspective on issues of land use, specifically
OHV access. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Arthur
More |
Attempt
to close trails. No more trails should be taken. FS needs to map all
trails. Users need to make sure all trails and roads are designated.
Keep areas open for the future. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Bruce
Boring |
Not
valid to close routes without mapping them. Enough trails have been
closed, many for the wrong reason. More trails need to be opened. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Curt
Fournier |
No
more restrictions on our off road bikes. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Dave
Wood |
Conflict
between inventorying all routes and the June 2006 closure of all umapped areas. Concerned about reduction of single tread
trails in favor of machined groomed quad trails, and poor maintenance
of FS trails that causes a problem. OHV mileage is misleading as alot of it is for roads, not single track routes. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Grant
Palenske |
Don’t
close any unmapped roads simply because have have
not successfully mapped them. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Jess
McKinley |
Not
valid to close routes without mapping them. Map all existing routes
in Region 5. Should be building and managing routes to meet demand. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Jim
Williams |
Don't close routes simply because no adequate inventory. Restricting OHVs to smaller and smaller areas is not answer; increases impacts and not safe. Take measured approach and work together with public for acceptable
outcome. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
John
Ferro |
Not
valid to close routes without mapping them. Map all existing routes
in Region 5; OHV enthusiast will help. Should be building and managing
routes to meet demand. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Larry
Atnip |
Don't
close all unmapped trails and deny users right to ride where they have
for decades just because FS does not have resources for management. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Nina
Santillanez |
Don’t
close our ohv parks. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Patty
Richardson |
Don’t
close any unmapped roads simply because have have
not successfully mapped them. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Paul
McKinney |
Keep
our lands open to off road use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Sarah
Jacobs |
Not
valid to close routes without mapping them. Map all existing routes
in Region 5. Should be building and managing routes to meet demand. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 28-Jan-05 |
Steve
Jensen |
Don't
close any existing trails or routes to off-road vehicles. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 29-Jan-05 |
Carl
Davis |
Are
we picking on OHV? Are there similar programs for other unmanaged trail
uses? |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 29-Jan-05 |
John
Griffin |
Keep
all trails and areas open to OHV use. Restricting OHVs
to smaller areas is not the answer. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 29-Jan-05 |
Richard
Ambrose |
Do
not further limit open riding areas |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 30-Jan-05 |
Duke
Lambert |
Don’t
close any unmapped trails or routes. Keep trails open in an environmentally
safe manner. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Mark
Gigas |
Don't
close any unmapped routes because not successfully mapped. Does not
accept loss of opportunities because not inventoried. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 31-Jan-05 |
Peter Shore |
Not
valid to close routes without mapping them. Must map all existing routes
in Region 5. Should be building and managing routes to meet demand. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 7-Feb-05 |
Alan
Blomberg |
Opposes
closure of public land to OHV use. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 8-Feb-05 |
Albert
Llata |
Discrimination
against less abled. Process of limiting motorized
trails needs to be stopped unless good reason to not have motorized
trails in areas. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion; does not address PA. |
| 29-Jan-05 |
Wesley Miller |
Less
and less area to ride. Restricting OHVs to smaller and smaller areas increases the impacts
in those areas. |
Nonsubstantive - States a position or opinion |
