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WWNF: Subpart A draft
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The USFS work on the
Travel Management Plan
for the WWNF began in
2007 to meet the mandates
of the 2005 Travel Man-
agement Rule. The fi rst
plan was fi nalized in 2012
and was then withdrawn
by then WWNF Supervisor
Monica Schwalbach.
Currently, the USFS
has completed a draft of
Subpart A of the WWNF
Travel Management Plan.
“Subpart A is a minimum
road and travel analysis
required under the 2005
Travel Management
Rule,” said Montoya in a
June 23rd interview. “The
Subpart A draft is a suite of
recommendations to show
what‘s needed for the For-
est Service to manage the
forest and could include
opening roads, closing
roads, decommissioning of
roads, or converting non-
motorized trails to motor-
ized use.”
Montoya expects the
Subpart A document to be
available to the public by
the end of this summer or
by early fall.
Public meetings in
northeastern Oregon ad-
dressing Subpart A begin
this July with the fi rst
meeting likely held in Wal-
lowa County, according to
Montoya.
The public meetings are
facilitated by Jack South-
worth who has worked
in Harney County as a
member of the High Desert
Partnership. The meetings
are open to the public and
focus on specifi c topics
important to the region
including grazing, access
and wilderness related top-
ics, and pace and scale of
forest restoration.
Montoya emphasizes that
Subpart A is not a deci-
sion-making document but
contains recommendations
that could be referred to in
site-specifi c project level
decisions.
“It is an analysis for the
Forest Service to look
at what the Forest needs
to administer the land. It
doesn’t take into account
what is needed for public
use,” Montoya explains.
The road system needed
in the WWNF for public
use is documented by
the USFS within Subpart
B of the WWNF Travel
Management Plan and has
already been completed.
Subpart B was started in
2007 and was part of the
decision that was with-
drawn by Schwalbach
in 2012. Subpart B also
includes the existing con-
ditions road map showing
which roads are open and
which roads are closed,
according to Montoya.
When asked the reason
the USFS continues work
on the Travel Management
Plan Subpart A under the
old 1990 Blue Mountain
Forest Management Plan
and before the adoption
of the newly revised Blue
Mountain Forest Manage-
ment Plan Montoya said,
“We think we have enough
information to do Subpart
A. We know the road sys-
tem and there is no reason
to delay it because you’re
doing a forest plan. I don’t
expect much change from
the new forest plan.”
The ongoing saga
regarding the manage-
ment of the road system
in the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest continues
with a sustained level of
angst between local indi-
viduals and organizations
advocating for an open
forest policy and the USFS
supervisory staff tasked
with fulfi lling the mandate
of the 2005 Travel Man-
agement Rule.
Background.
The battle between the
federal agency working on
a new road system desig-
nation and local residents
working to maintain open
motorized access to the
local forest land goes back
to 2007 when the USFS
began working on a Travel
Management Plan to meet
the mandate of the 2005
Travel Management Rule.
The 2005 Travel Man-
agement Rule was sent
down from the Department
of Agriculture and printed
in the Federal Register,
effective Dec. 9, 2005,
requiring the USFS to de-
velop and implement a sys-
tem of designated routes
for motorized travel on
all Nation Forest System
lands. Since the beginning
of that Travel Management
Plan in 2007, the WWNF-
Region 6 has had fi ve
different USFS supervisors
and, above them, two dif-
ferent Regional Foresters
in the Portland Region 6
offi ce.
The USFS worked on the
Travel Management Plan
for the WWNF for about
fi ve years, released a fi nal
decision in 2012, and then
shortly thereafter withdrew
that fi nal plan.
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6- ___ Lang Syne;
10- Scarlett’s home;
14- Same here;
15- La ___ Tar Pits;
16- Bakery worker;
17- Old anesthetic;
18- Turkish titles;
19- Clench;
20- Forebrain;
23- Business card abbr.;
24- Stephen of “The
Crying Game”;
25- Best;
26- Silent assent;
27- Tardiness;
32- I cannot tell ___;
35- Protection;
36- Kind of cross;
37- Describe fully;
41- Mess up;
42- Pertaining to birth;
43- Downhill racer;
44- Catamaran, for one;
46- Comparative suffi x;
48- ___ few rounds;
49- Plague;
50- Space;
53- Overall confi gura-
tion;
58- Roster;
59- ___ Arabian Nights;
60- Skater Slutskaya;
61- First name in dare-
deviltry;
62- Achy;
63- Tending to a defi nite
end;
64- “Venerable” English
monk;
65- Geraint’s beloved;
66- Cosmetician Lauder;
1- Highly skilled;
2- Brit’s bottle measure;
3- Playwright Fugard;
4- Fr. holy women;
5- Bullfi ghter;
6- Manila hemp plant;
7- Craving;
8- Jump;
9- Recipe amount;
10- Young of a male
tiger and a female lion;
11- Pattern of plant
growth;
12- Jockey’s strap;
13- Dada pioneer;
21- Beatty of “Super-
man”;
22- This is only ___;
26- Japanese computer
giant;
27- Sic on;
28- I’ve Got ___ in Ka-
lamazoo;
29- Metal, often used as
a container;
30- Fill to the gills;
31- Took action against;
32- Experts;
33- Old Italian money;
34- Watered;
35- Dog star;
38- Open, as a gate;
39- Warhol subject;
40- Neighbor of Syr.;
45- Place;
46- Debtor’s note;
47- Stir to action;
49- Examined furtively;
50- Culpability;
51- Golfer Palmer, to his
army;
52- Freedom from war;
53- Relocate;
54- Seine feeder;
55- Before long;
56- Amos or Spelling;
57- ___ bien!;
58- Johnny ___;