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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.
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Heh heh heh, alright!
Look for me, a fair to middling fat guy!
And that’s WITH going to the Y three times a week and hammering the bikes and trainers!
See ya’,
Ed
You gonna be at the meeting at North Valley March 17th?
See ya’,
Ed
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More Federal gummit takeover. Bowing to the Earth Zombies.
Pray for America
The Cajuns have a simple solution to the problem. I doubt many BLM people want to talk about it...
I urge everyone to show up at the meeting at North Valley March 17, and protest this BLM theft of our public lands.
I’m going to call the BLM office in Medford and get more details, so I’m prepared.
Ed
How was the meeting ?
Horrible. They took no public comments, (I kept interjecting comments, though) and presented their plans as a fait acompi.
We’ll see the final series of closures sometime this spring.
What’s even worse, though, is the Forest Service’s announcement of massive road closures in the Briggs Valley/Spalding Pond complex. They want to close the majority of roads in the Tin Cup/Taylor Ridge/Secret Creek, et al area. These closures represent possibly hundreds of miles of roads that have been used for decades.
That area is really the heart of where I go mountain biking, and is where many, many people go to hunt, camp, fish, hike and recreate, and is far more onerous than the areas the BLM closed around Stratton Creek/Maple Gulch.
The USFS will have meetings in Dreadford and GP in late April, I’m going to go to the GP ones.
See ya’,
Ed
Is this still around?
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
http://www.unwatch.com/U_N_%20land_grab.htm
They’re just supporting the pot growers of America.
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