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THE FLATHEAD NATIONAL Forest (FNF) has released its proposed new forest plan. This is a big deal, and I’d suggest you take a look at what’s happening yourself.
For good or bad, this proposal is the average person’s “best” chance to sound off for sanity. I recommend you grab the CD from the supervisor’s office, or go to the FNF website: http://www.fs.usda. gov/flathead/ for a download.
From there, it’s one click from the bottom of the home page to Paperwork Paradise. I got the CD, which contains 499 pages of dense reading, plus 27 pag- es of Appendix C, mostly maps. You owe it to yourself to at least look through Ap- pendix C to look at the “big picture” on what will, and won’t, happen on the Flat- head for the next 20 years.
Two huge issues dominate, run- ning parallel to the plan revision: griz- zlies and lynx. Again, the maps tell the sordid tale. There’s a “Northern Conti- nental Divide Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Amendment” that will fundamentally constrain implementation of any pro- posed forest plan – comment deadline May 5, same as the plan proposal. Lynx critical habitat covers everything over 4,500 feet elevation. I have the feeling if proposed actions don’t make more bun- nies (hares) for lynx to eat, they won’t happen.
As for the plan itself, I like the sim- plification of the Management Area (MA for short) classification system. The 1986 plan had endless numbers and sub-cat- egories, created when the Forest Ser- vice could afford to be complicated. In the new proposal, the MA’s run a scale. At one end is MA 1a, designated Wilder- ness, the most “natural.” At the other end is MA 7, Focused Recreation Area, the most “artificial.”
Wilderness: On top of 1.074 million acres of Wilderness, the 2.3-million- acre FNF is proposing to recommend another 188,000 acres. Given there’s an- other 148,000 acres of non-motorized – well, I can’t support new wilderness unless designation is conditional on an enforceable halt to mindless litigation in the 800,000 or so of FNF that is theo- retically multiple-use. There needs to be real “give” with the get, legal protection for “land of many uses” just as perma-
nent, predictable and durable as wilder- ness.
Regardless, it’s flat-out psycho to turn the Jewel Basin hiking area into big-W wilderness. Front-country wil- derness gets trampled flat, but the larg- er issue is human-waste management. Let’s keep the power-tool option open, please.
Timber: Harvests are now around 16 million feet a year, way too little. In the next plan, from 735,000 acres of “suitable” general forest, FNF proposes to sell a yearly maximum of 34.3 million board feet of “projected wood,” but only 28 million would be actual “timber” – the rest is firewood and other junk. Why not more, say at least 50 million feet a year as part of the 300 million that sup- posedly could come from Region One forests in Montana? The FNF claims these numbers are based on “fiscal ca- pacity” – but let’s face it, timber sales would be cheap to prepare were it not for the legal mess Congress made.
Recreation: There’s 33,500 acres of good news for overnight campers who use “hard” or developed recreation sites, especially in Southforkistan/Hungry Horse. But for those of us who like to get out and explore – you know, those “dis- persed” of us who partake of “modern” recreation involving motors and wheels – the news is lousy.
Closed roads will stay closed, with almost all of FNF’s 2,200 miles of trails (the fun stuff for me) taboo. There’s a few dinky blobs (3 percent total) of “semi- primitive motorized” where trails open to wheels exist, the microscopic “rural” Slippery Bill play area on Blacktail above Lakeside, but that’s all. Comparing the vast seas of non-motorized “semi-prim- itive” and wilderness (72 percent) to what is open to motorized users is pretty depressing.
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Trust me, I’ll be weighing in. If you wish to comment, you can email the Flathead National Forest at flathead- [email protected].
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