Dixie-Fishlake NF Weblog
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In the Strategy section of our draft Revised Forest Plans (set for release sometime between March and May 2006), we have a section on special areas. This section is split between congressionally designated special areas and administratively designated areas. Backcountry is one of the administrative designations we are contemplating using.

We would like your thoughts on the language we are working on for this designation. Please feel free to comment to the blog about this section, to ask questions or clarifications, we’d like to stimulate a discussion about this topic. If you have any trouble figuring out how to comment, please call me at (435) 865-3730 or email me at ckcall@fs.fed.us.
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Russ Reading, our GIS guru for our planning team, took a bunch of pictures at a field trip this summer we took to the Little Creek Peak and Sandy Peak area on the Cedar City Ranger District of the Dixie NF. Here are the pictures. If you have any comments about the area or that field trip, please share them with us here.

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Recently, several folks from the Forest Service took a hike up the Bullion Canyon Pocket. This is within the area we are recommending as a wilderness area on the Fishlake National Forest. Here are some of their pictures, let us know what you think. Pictures are courtesy of Frank Erickson and Mark Muir.

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Thanks to Mark Muir, we have some great photos of the Signal Peak Backcountry Area to share with you. Signal Peak is located on Monroe Mountain within the Richfield Ranger District.

Let us know what you think about this area?

Nice shots, Mark!

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Yesterday, October 24, we conducted a field trip to the proposed Beehive Peak Backcountry area. Here are some pictures of the trip courtesy of Mark Muir, hydrologist on the Dixie and Fishlake Planning Team. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this area. Please feel free to click the comment button and share them with us here on the blog.

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Due to potential weather problems and lack of interest expressed, we will are cancelling the field trip previously planned for October 13 to the Boulder Rim area of the Teasdale RD.

This is an area we are potentially considering for additional backcountry designation (we recieved several comments on our Management Direction Package suggesting this). If you would like details about our thinking, please call, email, or stop by to talk with us. In the near future, we will provide a draft proposal for some of this area on our blog in preparation for a draft plan in January.

Feel free to comment here if you have any thoughts or questions.

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.