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Due to some extenuating circumstances we need to cancel the Oct 3 Field Trip to look at recommended additions to the Box-Death Wilderness. There is a chance we may try to do this field trip on October 26 (weather and schedule permitting).
If you have any questions, please contact me Kenton Call at (435) 691-0768.
Here are the revised Special Areas section for the Dixie and Fishlake NFs. We anticipate many more changes leading up to our draft Revised Forest Plans in January 06.
We still need to do some work on the boundaries for special areas. We hope you can help us think through this question over the next several months.
We’d love your feedback on these documents. We have done some significant work on our definition of backcountry. Please let us know what you think….
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Frank Erickson, the planner for the Richfield BLM, has offered some pictures of the Beehive Peak area that show how beautiful some of the drainages in the area can be.
We’d love to hear you thoughts about this area???
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We have moved the Beehive Peak Field Trip from October 6 to October 24. We will be doing an auto tour of the area. We will meet at the Fishlake National Forest Offices in Richfield at 9am. Bring a lunch and plan to spend the bulk of the day touring the area and discussing the proposed backcountry designation and the Fishlake OHV route designation decisions for this area.
Please RSVP to me at (435) 865-3730 so that we can plan for numbers and warn people if we need to change plans because of inclement weather.
Mark Muir, the hydrologist on our Plan Revision Team, took the following pictures while visiting the proposed Beehive Peak Backcountry. We had a field trip scheduled to visit this area on October 6. The field trip has been moved to October 24. Meet at 9am at the Fishlake National Forest Office in Richfield. Call me at (435) 865-3730 to RSVP and get more details.
Mark, we’d love to hear you thoughts about the area?
Here are the pictures:
Here are pictures from our field trip. We had a great time!
Here are some of my pictures from our field trip to the Deep Creek Backcountry. We learned a lot about the area, some management challenges in the area’s vegetation, the great recreation opportunities, and beautiful vistas. We’d love your thoughts about this area and some of the other nice areas adjacent to the proposed backcountry. Your thoughts?
Enjoy the pictures….
Hi Folks. Just a few quick pieces of information.
The planning team is plugging away and hopes to have a draft plan for public review just after the New Year (06). We are going to be holding some internal district and specialist meetings to help us get to a draft Revised Forest Plan.
On September 12, 2005, Bevan Killpack, District Ranger on the Pine Valley Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest, lead an eager group of about 25 humans and their equine friends into some areas that we are currently recommending for inclusion into the wilderness system.
In some of our field trips we have heard and interest in seeing a clearer definition of what we mean by backcountry. In version 1.0 of our Management Direction Package (MDP) we wrote a desired condition for backcountry. This definition is currently being refined by the Forest Service based on feedback we are recieving internally and from many of our external partners. It is likely to change from version 1.0.