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This in the Union Leader this mornning:
"Environmentalists like White Mountain National Forest plan"
"Environmentalists like White Mountain National Forest plan"
White Mountain National Forest plan news
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Jack Waldron
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Proposed Forest Plan
This is the Proposed Plan. It was estimated at 1000+ pages prepublication and they met that goal. From what I've seen so far these are the issues directly affecting hiking/recreation.
There will be a greater emphasis on providing educational approaches and programs both directly from the USFS and also via cooperating organizations. There will be a defined program to monitor the impact of recreation on the forest. Recreational impacts to be monitored include trampling of alpine vegetation and recreational impacts on high elevation songbirds.
The Plan will recommend an additional 33,000 acres for Wilderness designation, 10,000 to increase the Sandwich Range Wilderness, and approx 23,000 for a new designated Wilderness area in the Wild River valley.
There is a proposed Wilderness Management plan which breaks the Wilderness areas in 4 sections with standards to be monitored for each section so that the USFS can now measure/estimate the recreational impact in Wilderness areas.
Both the Alpine Zone and the Appalachian Trail Corridor are official Management Area designations so that the policies, standards, and guidelines for managing these areas are spelled out in the Forest Plan.
Of course this is all in the draft and preferred stages so things could change before final adoption.
This is the Proposed Plan. It was estimated at 1000+ pages prepublication and they met that goal. From what I've seen so far these are the issues directly affecting hiking/recreation.
There will be a greater emphasis on providing educational approaches and programs both directly from the USFS and also via cooperating organizations. There will be a defined program to monitor the impact of recreation on the forest. Recreational impacts to be monitored include trampling of alpine vegetation and recreational impacts on high elevation songbirds.
The Plan will recommend an additional 33,000 acres for Wilderness designation, 10,000 to increase the Sandwich Range Wilderness, and approx 23,000 for a new designated Wilderness area in the Wild River valley.
There is a proposed Wilderness Management plan which breaks the Wilderness areas in 4 sections with standards to be monitored for each section so that the USFS can now measure/estimate the recreational impact in Wilderness areas.
Both the Alpine Zone and the Appalachian Trail Corridor are official Management Area designations so that the policies, standards, and guidelines for managing these areas are spelled out in the Forest Plan.
Of course this is all in the draft and preferred stages so things could change before final adoption.
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