Olympic Forest Road Closures

[fireweed]

The Olympic National Forest is hosting open houses asking the public to share the areas and roads they use on the Forest.
The first of a series of meetings on a U.S. Forest Service proposal to close about 1,600 miles of Olympic National Forest's 2,500 miles of roads is being held today in Port Angeles. The  scheduled meetings are listed below.

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/olympic/?cid=STELPRD3797628

Date, Time, and Location of Open Houses:
•Tuesday June 17, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Port Angeles, Washington, Clallam County Courthouse, County Commissioner’s Meeting Room, 223 E 4th St.
•Thursday June 19, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Forks, Washington, Olympic Natural Resources Center, Hemlock Forest Conference Room, 1455 S Forks Ave.
•Wednesday June 25, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Quilcene, Washington, Quilcene School, Multi-purpose Room, 294715 U.S. Hwy 101
•Thursday July 17, 2014, 4:30 – 7:30 p.m., Port Townsend, Washington, Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St.
•Wednesday July 30, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Quinault, Washington, Olympic National Forest, Quinault Ranger Station, 363 South Shore Rd.
•Tuesday August 19, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Shelton, Washington, Shelton Civic Center, 525 Cota St.
•Thursday August 21, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Aberdeen, Washington, Rotary Log Pavillion, 1401 Sargent Blvd.
•Thursday August 27, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., Olympia, Washington, Olympic National Forest, Supervisor’s Office, 1835 Black Lake Blvd. SW

[timberfaller]

Good Luck!!   The meetings I've attended here on the East side over roads only fell on deaf ears!

They had their marching orders and MONEY straight from DC,  BUT "Public meetings" are by Law required to be had!

[JimmyHoffa]

Their road budget is well below what they would need to maintain roads even at the low levels.  I think these meetings are to determine which roads go to which maintenance level.  ML2 roads would be the gravel high clearance roads that are pretty rough, ML4 are the paved roads that allow any car.  Maintenance level 4 is ten times the cost as level 2.  I actually prefer the level 2 roads, unless pulling a trailer.  Then again they could have some more timber sales....wishful thinking...

[Alchase]

Could this have anything to do with the movement to expand the park?

[bigtex]

Could this have anything to do with the movement to expand the park?

The park expansion issue is basically dead now.

It originally started out as simply expanding the park by moving USFS lands to the NPS. Then it went to adding the USFS lands to the Park Service but running it as a preserve so that you can still hunt, basically it would become "Olympic Natl Park & Preserve." And now the only thing is simply adding more wilderness areas on the USFS lands and designating the rivers in the park as wild and scenic, but no park expansion. The agencies would stay the same.

[Elkaholic daWg]

 You can bet harbinger ,Nate, Andy and Sandy types will be at those meetings.....(hoping for a "Land grab" of their own)