Don Amador Reviewing Draft Smith River
NRA Travel Plan with Local Access Leader
As BRC states in its June 9 comment letter on the Smith
River NRA Draft Travel Plan, it believes
it is both legally necessary and pragmatically essential that the agency use
its discretionary authority to formally establish a functional yet sustainable
network of designated routes.
June 9 BRC Comment Letter with Legal Citations
As both agency staff and recreationists know, various
preservationist and anti-access special interests will always incant a litany
of alleged legal violations that prevent adoption of an Alternative that
designates any meaningful network of vehicle route. They are certainly entitled to voice their
opinions, but the agency should carefully evaluate any such claims and realize they
are thinly veiled efforts to advance an agenda that includes significantly
reducing, if not eliminating, recreational use of vehicles in the National
Forest System.
HQ believes the agency is empowered to reject these
anti-access positions through correct interpretation of the law, as reflected
in various recent court decisions cited in the aforementioned comment letter.
There is a growing body of legal decisions that debunk
the notion that “minimization” means the elimination of OHV recreation on
Forest Service lands.
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