Forest Roads: The Future (MBSNF meetings)

One of the things we should push for is preventing the Forest Service from actively blocking or decommissioning these roads.

Yes, absolutely.  Thanks for getting a good list started.

The website that the original press release eluded to has been set up:

Sustainable Roads Blog Site

Instead of blindly coming up with a list of roads, everyone should review the maps that they have specifically produced because they have color coded which roads are being analyzed as part of this process:

Sustainable Roads Maps Page

From looking over the maps, what strikes me are the number of roads on the chopping block which are already not driveable (and haven't been probably since the logging stopped).

Instead of blindly coming up with a list of roads, everyone should review the maps that they have specifically produced because they have color coded which roads are being analyzed as part of this process:

Sustainable Roads Maps Page

From looking over the maps, what strikes me are the number of roads on the chopping block which are already not driveable (and haven't been probably since the logging stopped).

I looked at the PDF maps and added a few roads to my previous list (see above).

It's important to look at the legend at the upper right corner of the northern map and the lower right corner of the southern map. That's where the road legend can be found.

From the legend I conclude that virtually every Forest Service road in MBSNF is part of this analysis process. The number of "Basic Custodial Care (Closed)" roads is small, and I don't think any of them are of interest to skiers.

I think my previous post captures most of the roads of interest to backcountry skiers. (Probably more.) Feel free to disagree.

Attending the meeting today left me with a better understanding of what the FS getting at. For me it seemed that $$ is gone for road maintenance and repair
There was a tone of if "you like a road , take care of it" Because the FS can't
The current budget for 2013was presented as $250,000 for MBSNF

I would recamend if you care at all, Fill out the survey.

The FS is in a data collection phase. and sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
We won't always be broke. But once the alder takes over the road is not coming back.
Protocol for the future care of roads has not been established.

The original use of Roads for logging and mining seem to have been exhausted,

So what to do now?

Thanks CS

This topic is also being actively discussed over on NwHikers. Someone else who was at the meeting today has posted a summary with a description about what people were asked about. It's at the end of the page in the following link:

NWHikers Sustainable Roads Discussion

Assuming that people show up to meetings, that's an elegant way to communicate what parts of which roads are useful.

Can someone with online map skills create a google map overlay that TAYers can mark up, with ~10 most important routes in ranked order?