Posted on 03/01/2009 10:53:42 PM PST by george76
GRANTS PASS — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to decommission up to 20 miles of roads and about the same amount of trails this year along the Hellgate recreation section of the Rogue River.
The work would be done as part of the Rogue River Corridor Restoration Project that begins at White Horse Park where the Applegate River pours into the Rogue. The project reaches downstream some 20 river miles to the mouth of Grave Creek in the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River Corridor.
"The main intent is decommissioning roads and trails within the river corridor, all within about a quarter mile of the river," said Tony Kerwin, an environmental planner with the BLM'S Medford District.
The BLM will hold a public presentation on the project beginning at 6:15 p.m. March 17 at North Valley High School, 9741 Monument Drive, Merlin. Agency employees will be available to answer questions until about 8 p.m.
The Rogue was one of the original eight rivers included in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. The designation includes 84 miles of the river, beginning seven miles west of Grants Pass and continuing downstream to the mouth of Lobster Creek about 11 miles east of Gold Beach.
(Excerpt) Read more at mailtribune.com ...
Access to the popular stretch of river
Are they really going to deny access to the river or simply access in some areas to vehicles?
I was in the area around 12 years ago and it was an amazing place for hiking and mountain biking.
Oh my God...this makes me SICK!!!
I ride those roads (mountain bike) every week, they are beautiful, magnificent, and some of the nicest places to go mountain bike riding in Grants Pass.
Oh, this is literally breaking my heart...
Ed
I hate those bastards so much
these A-hoes just want it for themselves and their own selfish descriminate peacefulness
and hey, what about handicap access ?
Death by a thousand cuts.
They close as much as they can each year.
Next year, some more.
Get hold of someone here.
Maybe you can get some to listen.
http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/rogue/index.php
Their goal is to slowly kick everyone out.
This stops the ADA and the old folks.
Next year, they will stop another group.
On and on.
grrrr
They have been doing this on the Greenhorn west of Pueblo. Screws up access to some good turkey hunting.
Jerks
“Their goal is to slowly kick everyone out.
This stops the ADA and the old folks.
Next year, they will stop another group.
On and on.
grrrr”
First they ban the cutting of brush and black berries from the roads to the river.. Besides making that area a serious and deadly potential fire trap, only the bears can get too and from the road to the river. Places I could park and walk a short and safe distance to fish the river are overgrown and dangerous to even go in.
We have similiar things happening in California with our county and state parks. The A$$holes roll in big boulders, put in chains and sometimes drop trees across road trails to rivers and lakes often several hundred yards from the river or lake. That makes it tough for senior citizens to get to and from the water, impossible for anyone with a disability and really tough to take young children or grandkids to the river to fish or just to play along the edge.
I would like to start some Grampa/Granny suits with some of these counties to remove these obstacle.
Pushing ADA works briefly, sometimes.
This is a stupid game as the ecos will try again next year, hoping that we will be gone.
Bastards. That’s where I fish. FUOB.
This really lights my fire. I used to use that stretch of river for fishing and Graves Creek close to where it flows into the Rogue for gold panning. That stretch is fairly heavily used for recreation of many kinds, it’s not far from populated areas.
This is typical of BLM, they want to manage as much of our land as they can without the inconvenience of people getting in their way. Their goal is to eventually prevent access to the land, at least to bar easy access to it.
Most of the area I’ve hunted for years in Eastern OR is BLM and they started harrassing us about 30 years ago. They didn’t like us driving vehicles cross country to haul out deer we’d killed even though it was legal.
I am an environmental minuteman rebel
we got a slight reprive under Bush when he vetoed the "roadless intiative", this was supposed to happen back then now they are pushing ahead as fascist and totalitarian without any regard for the public. Absolute power is in the hands of the Socialist Environmentalist hate groups
Thaks geo.
Are you going to the BLM meeting at North Valley High School March 17 to protest those bast**ds?
I’m going. I hope all my fellow mountain bikers, campers, backpackers and off-roaders go and protest these thugs.
Those woods are beautiful, I cannot count the number of times I’ve gone up Stratton Creek Rd and ridden those trails off to the sides, or Whiskey Creek, Secret Creek, Tin Can, Taylor Ridge, Spalding Pond...and they’re going to shut most of them down.
Damned bast***s...those are OUR woods, and they have no right to shut them all down.
With the new wilderness bill they just voted on, mountain bikers lost hundreds of miles of roads and trail that used to be National recreation Areas, bicycles allowed, that became designated wilderness, horse and feet only allowed, and now this in our own Rogue...
Not only that, but you can’t carry concealed in wilderness areas. Bush’s rewrite of the bill only addressed concealed carry in national parks, not wilderness areas.
I hope the high school is flooded with many hundreds of us...March 17th, North Valley, 6:15.
See ya’,
Ed
Ed,
Thanks for the update. I’ll be there, look for a real
tall skinny old fart.
I hear ya. I’ve been walking that area my entire life.
The feds need to get out of the states. And then get rid of that stupid governor!
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