SAWS Action Alert:
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Plan Revision and FEIS

Please submit your comment before the deadline.

Comment period deadline is April 30th, 2008

Submit your comments to:
Forest Plan Comments
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
420 Barrett Street
Dillon, Montana 59725

You previously received our SAWS Alert regarding the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Plan Revision and FEIS about a month ago. At that time, the comment period was scheduled to end April 1. We hope that you already submitted you comment prior to April 1. SAWS, along with several other organizations and Montana elected officials, asked for an extension to the April 1 date. The Regional Forester approved an extension of the comment period to April 30.

Here is a link to the official notice:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/b-d/forest-plan/index-plan-details.shtml

I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to submit a comment on this very important issue if you have not already done so. This proposal will close 329,000 acres as Recommended Wilderness Area (RWA) to snowmobile use that is currently open for that use today. Some of these proposed closures are very popular snowmobile areas. And one of the most important and possibly
illegal proposed changes in management by the Forest Service, is to manage ALL RWA as de-facto wilderness. We can not let that happen here. If they succeed here, other RWAs in other forests across the western United States could fall to closures like dominos. So if you think that what happens in this one forest in Montana, where you might not ride, will not affect you in your state and in your favorite riding area, you would be WRONG.

Below is a link to the comments SAWS submitted on this proposal.
They are for your information and use, but as always, please do not copy our entire comment word for word. The FS will not treat duplicate copies of the same comment as a separate comment.

http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/08/misc/SAWS_Comments_BDNF_FEIS.pdf
http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/Action_Alerts/08=
/SAWS_Action_Alert_-_BDNF_FEIS.htm

Thank you in advance for taking the time to comment on this very important issue.
Thank you all for your interest in and dedication to protecting YOUR right to ride.

Janine, Scott and Dave
(MT, ID, UT, WA SAWS Reps respectively)
Snowmobile Alliance of Western States

Protecting the right to ride for the owners of 281,965 registered snowmobiles (2007) in the western United States.

Copyright: 2008 Snowmobile Alliance of Western States. All Rights Reserved.
Permission is granted to distribute this information in whole or in part, as long as Snowmobile Alliance of Western States (SAWS) is acknowledged as the source.

              

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