Mt. Hood National Forest Seeks Comments on Motorized Travel Plan DEIS
BLUERIBBON COALITION LANDUSE UPDATE!
The Mt. Hood National Forests — located in northwest Oregon — released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for their Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Management Plan, including Forest Plan Amendment #17. The Forest Service (FS) is asking for your input during a 60-day public review and comment period, which will end on October 28, 2009.
The public may review the DEIS, along with associated maps and appendices, by going to the Forest’s website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/projects/. Limited hard copies of the document are available by contacting Jennie O’Connor Card.
Public comments are invited and should be as specific as possible. It is also helpful if comments refer to specific pages or chapters of the DEIS. Before commenting, the public is urged to review the DEIS, including appendices and associated maps. Written, facsimile, and electronic comments concerning this action will be accepted.
Send written comments to:
Jennie O’Connor Card, Off-highway Vehicle EIS
Hood River Ranger District
6780 Highway 35
Mount Hood-Parkdale, OR 97041
You may also hand-deliver your comments to the above address during normal business hours from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. Phone: (541) 352-6002 ext 634
Email comments to:
comments-pacificnorthwest-mthood@fs.fed.us
Please put “Mt. Hood Travel Management DEIS” in the subject line of e-mail comments. Acceptable formats are email message, MS Word (.doc), plain text (.txt), or rich text format (.rtf). Comments should include your name and address.
Fax comments to:
(541) 352-7365
For more information on this DEIS, please contact Jennie O’Connor Card, OHV Interdisciplinary Team Leader, at 541-352-6002 ext. 634, or Malcolm Hamilton, Recreation Program Manager, at 503-668-1792.
JUST REMEMBER, PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IS CRUCIAL TO KEEP RECREATION AREAS OPEN; PLEASE GET INVOLVED!
Thanks in advance for your support,
Ric Foster
Public Lands Department Manager
BlueRibbon Coalition
208-237-1008 ext 107
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Categories: Access Tags: Access, land use, mt hood, mt hood national forest, off-highway, ohv, oregon, pacific northwest
Burley Mountain to Mt St Helens Tour 10.13.07
Each time I venture to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the South Cascades of Washington state, I am simply amazed at the beauty of the country. In this region, not only are you are surrounded by four major peaks of the Cascade Mountains (Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Hood), there is an extensive variety of terrain ranging from deep valleys and canyons to exposed buttes and cliffs, alpine meadows to old growth forests, and of course, the Mt. St. Helens blast zone. I could easily spend days or even weeks just exploring the region.
With that in mind, I decided to host a Backroad Drivers Northwest tour in the area just south of Randle, Washington. This region is an area which I am fairly familiar with having spent a lot of time hunting, camping and exploring with my father while growing up. The tour would follow one of my favorite routes in the area, Forest Road 77 from the Burley Mountain Lookout along the ridge past Pinto Rock and Mosquito Meadows. From Mosquito Meadows, we would would take FS 99 to the Windy Ridge Viewpoint at Mt. St. Helens and follow FS 26 back to Randle.
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Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day Two (08.11.07)
Daily Goal: To Drive from Babyshoe Pass (on FS-23 near Mt. Adams) to Cle Elum, Washington (I-90) via Bethel Ridge and Manastash Ridge.
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Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day One (08.10.07)
Today was going to be a very long day. Not only would I be attempting to reach my destination in Packwood, I would also have to include the drive from my home in the middle of Washington state to the southern border near Oregon to start the tour of the Washington Cascade Mountains. My goal was to complete the drive from the Oregon border to the British Columbia in four days.
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Cascade Overland Adventure – August 2006
Our first goal was to travel from I-90 near Cle Elum, Washington to Highway 410 near Cliffdell, Washington via logging roads. Our second goal was to travel from Highway 410 to Highway 12 over logging roads. We would then travel Highway 12 over White Pass to Packwood. From Packwood, we would head South on logging roads towards Mt. Adams and locate a campsite for the night.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 4wd, 4x4, 80-series, Adventures, bethel ridge, buck meadows, burley mountain, camp, campground, camping, campsite, cascade mountains, cascades, chain of lakes, cispus river, cle elum, cliffdell, crow creek, crow creek campground, ellensburg, expedition, forest, four wheel drive, french butte, goat rocks, gps, green river, horseshoe lake, huckleberries, hunting, jeep, johnson creek, killen creek, land cruiser, landcruiser, little naches river, lookout, manastash, meadows, meta lake, milk creek road, mt adams, mt hood, mt st helens, national forest, nile road, olallie lake, oregon, overland, packwood, pinto rock, quartz creek, quartz mountain, rattlesnake creek, rimrock lake, ryan lake, snoqualmie pass, south cle elum ridge road, spirit lake, strawberry mountain, takhlakh lake, taneum, taneum campground, tieton river, timberwolf mountain, tower rock, trail, travel, tripod flats, walupt lake, washington, washington cascades, wenatchee national forest, white pass, windy ridge, wrangler, yakima, yj
