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Hells Canyon Comprehensive Management            Plan

December 17, 2003 

The Record of Decision for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area Comprehensive Management Plan was released July 22, 2003 and was implemented August 29, 2003. The appeal period on the decision ended October 6, 2003. Six appeals were received and are currently under review by the Regional Forester. A decision on the appeals is anticipated sometime in early spring 2004.

These following links provide electronic access to all documents related to the decision. Read            a description              of these documents. The documents are available in Adobe Acrobat              (.pdf) format that are exact representations of the printed publications.              Acrobat Reader version 4.0 or higher is necessary to view these              files correctly (see additional information below). 
- Executive Summary  hi-resolution                  version    (1202kb) )
- Record                  of Decision    (1315kb)  ( text                    version )                            
- Summary    (1943kb)
- Table of                Contents to all documents including the Final Environmental Impact Statement    (968kb)
- News Release
- Folder list of all documents

Printed copies of the documents will be available for review at Forest Service offices in Enterprise, Baker City, and Halfway, Oregon; Clarkston, Washington; and Riggins, Idaho; and               at public libraries in Enterprise, Halfway, La Grande, and Baker City in Oregon; and Lewiston, Riggins, and Council in Idaho. A compact disc containing the above documents is also available to the public. Send requests for information or documents to Katie Countryman, Environmental Coordinator, via e-mail at [email protected] phone 541-523-1264, or write to:

  Katie Countryman, Environmental Coordinator  Wallowa-Whitman National Forest  P.O. Box 907,   Baker City, OR 97814 

  

Description                of Documents

Executive                    Summary (12 pages)                  contains brief summary of background and need for change, public                  involvement and issues, highlights of the decision and rationale                  for the decision. It briefly describes the implementation strategy,                  how to appeal the decision, and how to get more information.                    It lists libraries and Forest Service offices at which complete                    sets                  of printed documents are available for review. 

Record of Decision - (82 pages) provides background              on the planning process and describes in detail the decision and              the rationale                for the decision. It describes in detail the implementation strategy            and appeal process. 

Summary  (64 pages) summarizes the existing              direction, purpose and need for change, significant issues, alternatives              considered                  and developed in detail, and the environmental consequences            of the alternatives. 

Final Environmental                Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), Volume I - (848                pages) describes in detail the purpose and need for change, existing                management                direction,              the significant                    and other issues, and public involvement efforts. It describes                    the five alternatives developed in detail and other alternatives                    considered. It includes a description of the affected environment                    for the HCNRA and the environmental consequences of the alternatives.                Appendices, Volume 2 -                (580 pages) includes the detailed management direction              for the areas needing change. Response              to Public                        Comments, Volume 3 - (262 pages) contains the                        more than 2,000 comments                        received                        from the public and the Forest Service response to the            comments based on how they were integrated into the FEIS. 

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A note about the Adobe PDF files:              These documents            are posted as Adobe PDF files, which require the use of the free                Acrobat Reader, available from the Adobe website. If you have                Adobe's free Reader installed on your system, then simply click                on the                PDF links above. If you do not have the Reader, please visit                the Adobe                website to download the free Reader plugin.                Also note: you must have the Acrobat Reader version 4 or higher                to view these files correctly.

You can navigate within each PDF document and between PDF documents              by clicking on one of the bookmarks which will appear on the left              of your screen after you open any of the documents. A bookmark              list will be visible on the left side of the screen when the documents              are open. If you do not see the bookmark window after opening the              document, change the bookmark setting by selecting the window tab,              then select show bookmark in the pull down menu. The bookmark list              is the most convenient method of navigating to locations within              the documents. It is essentially a linked table of contents for              each document. Click on a bookmark to move to a specific document              or location within a document. Click on the plus sign or triangle              to the left of bookmarks to expand and view sub-topics. 

After viewing linked material, use the back arrow or back menu              command to return to the previous location. To move to a specific              page within the current document, drag the vertical scroll bar              on the right until the number of the page you want is displayed              in the pop-up window, and then release the mouse button to move              to that page. To return to the overall table of contents, click              on the "Home/Table of Contents" bookmard at the top of              each document's bookmark list.

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