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