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Vol. 72, No. 175 

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Black Hills National Forest Travel 

Management Plan 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service proposes 

to designate which routes (roads and 

trails) on federal lands administered by 

the Forest Service within the Black Hills 

National Forest are open to motorized 

travel. In so doing, the agency will 

comply with requirements of the Forest 

Service 2005 Travel Management Rule. 

Some areas were considered for crosscountry travel designation, but no areas 

are included in this proposal. As a 

result of these travel management 

decisions, the Forest Service will 

produce a Motorized Vehicle Use Map 

(MVUM) depicting those routes on the 

Black Hills National Forest that will 

remain open to motorized travel. The 

MVUM will be the primary tool used to 

determine compliance and enforcement 

with motorized vehicle use designations 

on the ground. Those existing routes 

and other user-created routes not 

designated open on the MVUM will be 

legally closed to motorized travel. The 

decisions on motorized travel do not 

include over-snow travel or existing 

winter-use recreation. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

November 9, 2007. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected to be released in April 2008 

and the final environmental impact 

statement is expected in September 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Travel Management, Black Hills 

National Forest, 1019 North 5th Street, 

Custer, SD 57730. Electronic comments 

may be sent to comments-rockymountain-black-hills@fs.fed.us, with 

‘‘Travel Management’’ in the subject 

line. Comments must be readable in 

Microsoft Word, rich text or pdf formats. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Willems, Team Leader, at 

twillems@fs.fed.us or (605) 673–9200. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need for this action 

is to improve management of motorized 

vehicle use on National Forest System 

lands within the Black Hills National 

Forest in accordance with provisions of 

36 CFR Parts 212, 251, 261, and 295 

Travel Management; Designated Routes 

and Areas for Motor Vehicle Use; Final 

Rule. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action is to designate 

selected roads and trails open to 

motorized travel (wheeled vehicles 

only) on lands administered by the 

Black Hills National Forest. Where it is 

appropriate and necessary, the 

designations will also set specific 

seasons of use and type of use for those 

roads and trails. In doing so, the Forest 

will comply with requirements of the 

Forest Service 2005 Travel Management 

Rule (36 CFR part 212). Some areas were 

considered for cross-country travel 

designation, but no areas are included 

in this proposal. As a result of these 

travel management decisions, the Black 

Hills National Forest will produce a 

Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) 

depicting those routes and areas on the 

Forest that will remain open to 

motorized travel. The MVUM will be 

the primary tool used to determine 

compliance and enforcement with 

motorized travel designations on the 

ground. Those existing Forest Service 

routes, as well as other user-created 

routes, not designated open on the 

MVUM will be legally closed to 

motorized travel. 

In order to implement the proposed 

action, it would be necessary to amend 

some existing direction and terminology 

in the Revised Forest Plan for the Black 

Hills National Forest. These changes to 

Plan direction would be enduring 

changes and would apply to this 

decision and all subsequent project 

decisions unless and until further 

modified. 

Proposed travel management-related 

changes to the 1997 Black Hills National 

Forest Revised Land and Resource 

Management Plan are based on 

elements of the travel management rule, 

public meeting comments, District and 

Core Travel Management Team 

recommendations, Forest Leadership 

Team decisions, and the Black Hills 

National Forest Advisory Board (NFAB), 

Travel Management Subcommittee, 

recommendations. The goal is to 

provide a transportation system that is 

within the Black Hills National Forest’s 

ability to manage (operate and maintain) 

and provides a variety of users with a 

diverse experience while minimizing 

impacts to resources. 

The proposed transportation system 

open to motorized travel under this 

proposal would be a total of 3,998 miles. 

This is a change of 298 miles from the 

existing condition of approximately 

3,700 miles. New project decisions 

could change this system without 

amending the Forest Plan. 

The proposed transportation system 

was developed with extensive public 

input over a period of three years and 

addresses a variety of concerns, 

including access to private lands within 

the National Forest boundary, funding, 

access to the Forest for motorized and 

non-motorized recreation, and roads 

under the jurisdiction of county, state, 

and other federal agencies. Specifically, 

this transportation system would allow 

for a balance between various 

recreational uses of the Forest. It would 

provide for various forms of reasonable 

motorized use on a designated system of 

routes. 

The proposed transportation system is 

depicted in detail on the Black Hills 

National Forest Travel Management 

Plan Proposed Action map (Map) 

located on the Forest Web site: http:// 

www.fs.fed.us/r2/blackhills/recreation/ 

travel_management/ohv.shtml. Other 

existing routes not shown on this map 

would not be open to public motorized 

travel. New routes would not be created 

except by written decision of an 

authorized Forest Service official. 

Unauthorized new routes would not be 

approved for public motorized travel. If 

this proposal is selected for 

implementation, the information on this 

map would become the Motor Vehicle 

Use Map (MVUM) required by 

regulation and agency policy. 

A proposed Off Highway Vehicle 

(OHV) trail system is a significant 

element of the total transportation 

system in this proposal. It would 

accommodate the desire for a mix of 


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different motorized recreation uses by a 

variety of motorized vehicles including 

All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), 

motorcycles, and full-size off-road 

vehicles. The system would provide for 

a variety of different uses, including 

multi-scale looped routes, destination 

sites, and challenges such as rock 

crawling. This proposal follows the 

recommendation of the NFAB Travel 

Subcommittee. 

This proposal is preparatory to a 

system of looped routes at several 

scales, with some dead-end routes 

leading to destination sites (such as 

cultural or special activity sites), or 

portal sites at municipal boundaries. 

Some of these loops are single-type use, 

but the majority are designated for 

mixed use. Mixed use is defined as use 

of a designated route by both highway 

legal and non-highway legal motor 

vehicles. 

The proposed OHV trail system is 

depicted on the Map. Some roads and 

trails on this system are designated to 

accommodate more than one type of 

use. These mixed-use routes are 

designated on the Map. If this proposal 

is selected for implementation, the 

information on this map would become 

the Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) 

required by regulation and agency 

policy. Only those routes shown on the 

MVUM would be authorized for 

motorized travel. 

Under this proposal most of the route 

mileage would occur on existing Forest 

System routes currently open to 

motorized travel. However, this 

proposal also includes construction of 

short connector routes and designation 

of some currently unauthorized routes 

between existing Forest System routes. 

It is our long-term goal to locate the 

majority of these designated routes away 

from communities and subdivisions. 

This would help reduce noise impacts 

to residents, as well as reduce the 

occurrence of single or privileged access 

by adjacent landowners. However, use 

on some routes would probably be 

audible to those living nearby. 

Approximately 2,213 miles of Forest 

System roads would be designated for 

mixed-use, as ‘‘roads open to all 

vehicles,’’ and considered part of the 

proposed OHV Trail System. Forest 

System roads not considered for mixeduse would be designated as ‘‘roads open 

to highway legal vehicles only.’’ This 

would apply to approximately 1,075 

miles of Forest Service roads that were 

not proposed to be part of the OHV Trail 

System. 

This proposal would allow crosscountry motorized game retrieval of 

legally harvested downed elk, within 

300 feet from the centerline of specific 

designated routes, providing resource 

damage does not occur. Designated 

routes would be limited to only those 

routes located within management areas 

where off-route motorized travel is 

currently allowed by the Forest Plan. 

This includes and is limited to routes 

located within Management Areas 5.1, 

5.1A, 5.3A, and 5.6. Game retrieval 

would not be allowed along routes 

located in management areas that do not 

currently allow off-route motorized 

travel, such as Wilderness, Norbeck 

Wildlife Preserve, Research Natural 

Areas, and Botanical Areas. The intent 

of this proposal would be to provide 

reasonable access to downed elk that are 

difficult to move long distances without 

motorized assistance. Motorized crosscountry retrieval of deer, bighorn sheep, 

mountain goats, pronghorn, turkey, and 

other game animals would not be 

allowed under this proposal because 

these animals are small enough to 

retrieve without motorized assistance. 

This proposal is consistent with the 

recommendation of the NFAB Travel 

Subcommittee, the Rocky Mountain 

Region Consistency letter, 36CFR Part 

212.51(8)(b), and recommendations 

from the South Dakota Department of 

Game, Fish and Parks. Designated routes 

off of which game retrieval would be 

allowed will be delineated on the 

MVUM. 

This proposal would allow dispersed 

camping off designated routes, in 

certain areas, under certain conditions. 

In all cases where allowed, motorized 

vehicles would be restricted to within 

100 feet for dispersed camping from the 

centerline of specific designated routes, 

using the most direct route to the camp 

site. This would allow for reasonable 

recreational use of the Forest while 

minimizing the potential for resource 

damage. This proposal follows the 

recommendation of the NFAB Travel 

Subcommittee. Designated routes along 

which dispersed camping would be 

allowed will be shown on the MVUM. 

Under this proposal, off-road parking 

would be allowed along designated 

routes under certain conditions. Primary 

considerations in designating this policy 

were user safety and resource 

protection. Draft proposed FSM 

direction would allow parking off 

designated routes, not to exceed a 

distance of one vehicle length. 

Public comments by other 

recreationists and private landowners 

during the past three years have 

identified excessive OHV sound as a 

major concern within the Forest. To 

adequately address these potential user 

conflicts in the future, a stationary 

sound limit of 96 dB(A) is proposed for 

OHVs operating on lands administered 

by the Black Hills National Forest. The 

Society of American Engineers (SAE) 

J1287 stationary sound test procedure 

will be used for determining compliance 

with OHV sound-level standards. 

Responsible Official 

The Responsible Official is Craig 

Bobzien, Forest Supervisor, Black Hills 

National Forest, 1019 North Street, 

Custer, SD 57730. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

Based on the purpose and need for the 

proposed action, the Forest Supervisor 

will evaluate the Proposed Action and 

other alternatives in order to make the 

following decisions for the specific 

National Forest System lands under his 

authority: 

• Whether to designate certain routes 

as open to the public for motorized use; 

• Whether to allow game retrieval; 

dispersed camping; off-road parking; 

• The conditions of any such use, 

including the allowed season and/or 

type of use for those routes open to 

motorized travel; 

• Whether to amend the Forest Plan 

direction for travel management. 

Federal land managers are directed 

(Executive Order 11644, 36 CFR 212, 

and 43 CFR 8342.1) to ensure that the 

use of motorized vehicles and off-road 

vehicles will be controlled and directed 

so as to protect the resources of those 

lands, to promote the safety of users, 

minimize conflicts among the various 

uses of the federal lands, and to provide 

for public use of routes designated as 

open. 

Public Involvement 

Preliminary public involvement was 

initiated in 2003 in an effort to 

familiarize the public and stakeholders 

throughout the Black Hills region with 

the objectives of travel management. 

Between 2003 and 2007, the Black Hills 

National Forest hosted and participated 

in numerous public meetings and 

workshops in Wyoming and South 

Dakota. 

Between 2004 and 2006, the OHV and 

Travel Management subcommittees of 

the Black Hills National Forest Advisory 

Board conducted a number of public 

meetings to solicit general comments on 

travel management. The meetings were 

held in South Dakota and Wyoming to 

discuss and review Subcommittee 

objectives and the current Forest Service 

national OHV policy direction, and 

outline plans for the future. The 

purpose of these meetings was to gather 

input to help develop recommendations 

for future OHV policy planning. 

The Travel Management 

subcommittee also distributed a User 


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Needs Assessment Questionaire solicit 

comments from both OHV and nonOHV users to evaluate the potential for 

establishing a designated Off-Highway 

Vehicle (OHV) trail system on the Black 

Hills National Forest. The 559 

comments submitted helped the 

Subcommittee define opportunities for 

an OHV trail system and understand 

potential conflicts with other users. 

The National Off-Highway Vehicle 

Conservation Council (NOHVCC) in 

cooperation with the Black Hills 

National Forest conducted an OHV 

Route Designation Workshop in October 

2006 for agency personnel and the 

public. The purpose of this workshop 

was to assist the Forest Service and the 

public in effective implementation of 

the USFS Travel Management Rule. 

Four ‘‘Travelways’’ Workshops were 

conducted by the Forest during 

November, 2006. The purpose of these 

workshops was to gather public input 

and ideas for the development of a 

proposed action. A product from these 

workshops was a collection of forest site 

specific information from participants 

after they completed a mapping 

exercise. 

The public was also asked to provide 

input to the Forest Service on routes 

they wanted to remain open and/or 

those routes that may be in conflict with 

other desired conditions sought by the 

public on National Forest System lands. 

This initial public involvement ended 

in 2007 with the agency receiving 

numerous comments on individual 

routes, a large number of general 

comments, and some area-wide 

comments. This preliminary public 

input helped the Forest Service to 

develop this proposed action. 

Scoping Process 

The Forest Service will conduct 

meetings to solicit comments from the 

public and interested parties on this 

proposal. 

The meetings are scheduled from 7 

p.m. to 9 p.m. at the following locations: 

Sundance, WY—September 10, 2007 

(Monday), Crook County Courthouse, 

309 Cleveland Street. 

Rapid City, SD—September 11, 2007 

(Tuesday), Best Western Ramkota 

Hotel (Rushmore Room), 2111 North 

LaCrosse Street. 

Spearfish, SD—September 12, 2007 

(Wednesday), Wilbur S. Tretheway 

Pavilion, 115 South Canyon Street. 

Custer SD—September 13, 2007 

(Thursday), Crazy Horse Memorial 

(Mountain View Room), Avenue of 

the Chiefs. 

Notices of those meetings and 

requests for comments have been 

published in local newspapers. 

Based on comments received as a 

result of this notice and after the Forest 

Service has conducted public meetings 

and afforded the public sufficient time 

to respond to the proposed action, the 

agency will use the public scoping 

comments along with resource related 

input for the interdisciplinary team and 

other agency resource specialists to 

develop a set of significant issues to 

carry forward into the environmental 

analysis process. 

Preliminary Issues 

The agency has received some 

indications of potential issues from the 

initial public involvement process 

conducted during the last several years. 

Those expected issues include: 

(1) Resource damage caused by 

inappropriate types of vehicle use: (e.g. 

motorized vehicles in fragile or steep 

terrain), Proliferation of routes (e.g. 

parallel trails or roads, illegal travel off 

designated routes), and unrestricted 

season of use (e.g. routes open to 

motorized travel too long into the wet or 

muddy seasons). 

(2) Disturbing or harming wildlife by 

using routes in important or critical 

wildlife habitat areas, too many roads in 

wildlife habitat areas, and disturbance 

to wildlife during critical lifecycle 

periods. 

(3) Concerns about recreational 

opportunities, including loss of 

recreational opportunities when existing 

routes are closed to motorized travel, 

loss of semi-primitive and primitive 

recreational opportunity if more routes 

or areas are open to motorized travel, 

and how to appropriately and 

reasonably accommodate the fast 

growing number of motorized users 

desiring to use federal lands for 

recreational riding of OHVs. 

(4) Concerns on how the system might 

be designed to facilitate effective 

enforcement. 

(5) Safety concerns on routes where 

multiple vehicle types (e.g. full-sized 

trucks and cars, ATVs, motorcycles) are 

allowed. 

The Forest Service recognizes that 

this list of issues is not complete and 

will be further defined and refined as 

scoping continues. The Forest service 

intends to develop a comprehensive list 

of significant issues before the full range 

of alternatives is developed and the 

environmental analysis is begun. 

Comment Requested 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement for the Black Hills 

National Forest Travel Management 

Plan. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review 

A draft environmental impact 

statement will be prepared for comment. 

The comment period on the draft 

environmental impact statement will be 

45 days from the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the notice of availability in 

the Federal Register. 

The Forest Service believes, at this 

early stage, it is important to give 

reviewers notice of several court rulings 

related to public participation in the 

environmental review process. First, 

reviewers of draft environmental impact 

statements must structure their 

participation in the environmental 

review of the proposal so that it is 

meaningful and alerts an agency to the 

reviewer’s position and contentions. 

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. 

NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978). also 

environmental objections that could be 

raised at the draft environmental impact 

statement stage but that are not raised 

until after completion of the final 

environmental impact statement may be 

waived or dismissed by the courts. City 

of Angoon v. Hodel, 803 F.2d 1016, 

1022 (9th Cir. 1986) and Wisconsin 

Heritages, Inc. v. Harris, 490 F. Supp. 

1334, 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980). Because of 

these court rulings, it is very important 

that those interested in this proposed 

action participate by the close of the 

comment period so that substantive 

comments and objections are made 

available to the Forest Service at a time 

when it can meaningfully consider them 

and respond to them in the final 

environmental impact statement. 

To assist the Forest Service in 

identifying and considering issues and 

concerns on the proposed action, 

comments on the draft environmental 

impact statement should be as specific 

as possible. It is also helpful if 

comments refer to specific pages or 

chapters of the draft statement. 

Comments may also address the 

adequacy of the draft environmental 

impact statement or the merits of the 

alternatives formulated and discussed in 

the statement. Reviewers may wish to 

refer to the Council on Environmental 

Quality Regulations for implementing 

the procedural provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 40 

CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points. 

Comments received, including the 

names and addresses of those who 

comment, will be considered part of the 

public record on this proposal and will 

be available for public inspection. 


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(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22; 

Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section 

21) 

Dated: September 5, 2007. 

Dennis Jaeger, 

Deputy Forest Supervisor, Black Hills 

National Forest. 

[FR Doc. 07–4427 Filed 9–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Sierra National Forest, California, 

Sierra National Forest Motorized Travel 

Management EIS 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Sierra National Forest 

(Sierra NF) will prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement to 

disclose the impacts associated with the 

following proposed actions: 1. The 

prohibition of wheeled motorized 

vehicle travel off designated NFS roads, 

NFS trails and areas by the public 

except as allowed by permit or other 

authorization. 2. The addition of 

approximately 54 miles of existing 

unauthorized tracks to the current 

system of National Forest System (NFS) 

motorized trails, the permanent 

conversion of 72 miles of NFS Roads to 

NFS Trails, the management of 61 miles 

of NFS Roads as NFS Trails and the 

addition of six acres for motorized use. 

3. The changing of the allowable use or 

season of use on approximately 970 

miles of existing NFS Roads and closing 

approximately 200 miles of existing 

NFS Roads to public access usless 

allowed by permit or other 

authorization. 

DATES: The comment period on the 

proposed action will extend 45 days 

from the date the Notice of Intent is 

published in the Federal Register. 

Completion of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

is expected in November 2007 and the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS) is expected in January 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: 

Travel Management Team, Sierra NF, 

1600 Tollhouse Rd., Clovis, CA 93611. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Lowe, Sierra NF, 1600 Tollhouse Rd., 

Clovis, CA 93611; Phone: (559) 297–

0706 extension 4840. E-mail: 

sierra.route.designation@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Over the past few decades, the 

availability and capability of motorized 

vehicles, particularly off-highway 

vehicles (OHVs) and sport utility 

vehicles (SUVs) has increased 

tremendously. Nationally, the number 

of OHV users has climbed sevenfold in 

the past 30 years, from approximately 5 

million in 1972 to 36 million in 2000. 

California is experiencing the highest 

level of OHV use of any state in the 

nation. There were 786,914 ATVs and 

OHV motorcycles registered in 2004, up 

330% since 1980. Annual sales of ATVs 

and OHV motorcycles in California were 

the highest in the U.S. for the last 5 

years. Four-wheel drive vehicle sales in 

California also increased by 1500% to 

3,046,866 from 1989 to 2002. (OffHighway Vehicle Recreation in the 

United States, Regions and States: A 

National Report from a National Survey 

on Recreation and the Environment, 

USDA Forest Service, 2005). 

Unmanaged OHV use has resulted in 

unplanned roads and trails, erosion, 

watershed and habitat degradation, and 

impacts to cultural resource sites. 

Compaction and erosion are the primary 

effects of OHV use on soils. Riparian 

areas and aquatic dependent species are 

particularly vulnerable to OHV use. 

Unmanaged recreation, including 

impacts from OHVs, is one of ‘‘Four Key 

Threats Facing the Nation’s Forests and 

Grasslands.’’ (USDA Forest Service, 

June 2004). 

On August 11, 2003, the Pacific 

Southwest Region of the Forest Service 

entered into a Memorandum of Intent 

(MOI) with the California Off-Highway 

Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, 

and the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle 

Recreation Division of the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

That MOI set in motion a region-wide 

effort to ‘‘Designate OHV roads, trails, 

and any specifically defined open areas 

for motorized wheeled vehicles on maps 

of the 19 National Forests in California 

by 2007.’’

On November 9, 2005, the Forest 

Service published final travel 

management regulations in the Federal 

Register (FR Vol. 70, No. 216–Nov. 9, 

2005, pp. 68264–68291). This final 

Travel Management Rule requires 

designation of those roads, trails, and 

areas that are open to motor vehicle use 

on National Forests. Designations will 

be made by class of vehicle and, if 

appropriate, by time of year. The final 

rule prohibits the use of motor vehicles 

off the designated system as well as use 

of motor vehicles on routes and in areas 

that are not designated. 

On some NFS lands, long managed as 

open to cross-country motor vehicle 

travel, repeated use has resulted in 

unplanned, unauthorized tracks. These 

tracks generally developed without 

environmental analysis or public 

involvement, and do not have the same 

status as NFS roads and NFS trails 

included in the forest transportation 

system. Nevertheless, some 

unauthorized tracks are well-sited, 

provide excellent opportunities for 

outdoor recreation by motorized and 

non-motorized users, and would 

enhance the National Forest system of 

designated roads, trails and areas. Other 

unauthorized tracks are poorly located 

and cause unacceptable impacts. Only 

NFS roads and NFS trails can be 

designated for wheeled motorized 

vehicle use. In order for an 

unauthorized track to be designated, it 

must first be added to the forest 

transportation system. 

In accordance with the MOI, the 

Sierra NF completed an inventory of 

unauthorized tracks on NFS lands in 

August of 2006, identifying 

approximately 520 miles of known 

unauthorized tracks. The Sierra NF then 

used an interdisciplinary process to 

conduct a Travel Analysis including 

working with the public to determine 

whether any of the unauthorized tracks 

should be proposed for addition to the 

Sierra NF transportation system. Roads, 

trails and areas that are currently part of 

the Sierra NF transportation system and 

are open to wheeled motorized vehicle 

travel will remain designated for such 

use except as described below under 

Proposed Action. This proposal focuses 

on the prohibition of wheeled motorized 

vehicle travel off designated routes and 

needed changes to the Sierra NF 

transportation system, including the 

addition of some unauthorized routes to 

the Sierra NF transportation system and 

minor changes to the existing 

transportation systems. The proposed 

action is being carried forward in 

accordance with the Travel Management 

Rule (36 CFR part 212). 

In accordance with the rule, following 

a decision on this proposal, the Sierra 

NF will publish a Motor Vehicle Use 

Map (MVUM) identifying all Sierra NF 

roads, trails and areas that are 

designated for motor vehicle use. The 

MVUM shall specify the classes of 

vehicles and, if appropriate, the times of 

year for which use is designated. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The following needs have been 

identified for this proposal: 

1. There is a need for regulation of 

unmanaged wheeled motorized vehicle 

travel by the public. Currently, wheeled 


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