LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington) and Pacific Southwest (California) Regions are beginning a public conversation on the process for revising forest land management plans in the Northwest Forest Plan amendment area.
To gather ideas on the revision process, share information, and outline our current thinking about a plan revision strategy, the Forest Service is holding a series of public listening sessions in California, Oregon and Washington.
The California listening session will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Red Lion Hotel in the Sierra/Trinity rooms, 1830 Hilltop Drive, Redding.
For driving directions visit www.redlion.com/redding/map-directions . Parking is free.
The Northwest Forest Plan was created in 1994 with the intent of protecting the critical habitat of the northern spotted owl while maintaining a viable forest products industry in the Pacific Northwest.
The Northwest Forest Plan amended 26 land use plans, spanning 24 million acres of Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service-managed lands in Northern California, Washington and Oregon.
In California, the plan amended land and resource management plans for the Klamath, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forests.
In Oregon and Washington, the plan amended land and resource management plans for the Deschutes, Fremont-Winema, Gifford Pinchot, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, Mt. Hood, Okanogan-Wenatchee, Olympic, Rogue River-Siskiyou, Siuslaw, Umpqua and Willamette National Forests.
Background information on plan revision and additional information is available on these Web sites:
– Region 6 (Oregon and Washington): www.fs.usda.gov/r6/ ;
– Region 5 (California): www.fs.usda.gov/r5/ .
U.S. Forest Service hosts meeting on land management plans within the Northwest Forest Plan Amendment Area
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