National Forest Management Plans

a coalition of environmental groups are submitting a weighty document that it calls the conservation alternative it recommends a variety of conservation measures including new restrictions on livestock grazing logging oil and gas drilling and off road vehicle use the proposal was offered by the south coast wild lands project the sierra club and the center for biological diversity monica barrett is a biologist with the center we really needed a flight from college and bought new plant ecologist were calling to find a good alternative that would allow for protection of biological diversity and for a while still providing for recreational and opportunity report the contraction in and management of firing other important hot barbecue environmental groups aren't the only ones lobbying the forest service mike bishop is president of the iss a kenyan offer rotors association he's worried that the angeles national forest might close roads in his is a canyon to protect the endangered santa ana secretary ash bishop says although afro drivers are very well educated about the

environment his group is working to change that and to help the forest service with preservation being affected by our corporate veil putting boulder and cross reported doing was really hunted by the people that you hear are here to make sure that we're not leaving behind like a baby would go the motherland says those efforts are laudable off road vehicles or so are these can cause so much damage and the second phase is doing so poorly that some restrictions are warranted there are or the child my country and for the area they are going by carrying area currently and the foreigner to review oh harvey the military that were incompatible with the protection that the reader like threatened endangered and bp that they would either relocate trail or eliminate in

those areas some recreation groups fear that they'll be locked out of places that have been identified as possible wilderness areas of forest management plan can't create new wilderness areas that's congress's job but if someone has proposed a part of the forest be designated as wilderness the forest service could decide to manage it differently wilderness areas are off limits to cats and all vehicles including mountain bikes prison vargas is a member of the group of orange county trail runner's climbers and mountain bikers called the warrior society i don't have a party support and will vote again on how hardship ordinary that i don't believe should be made wilderness the worst of porto or you propose woven a fairy queen national force we can believe it you need a ballad you need a balance between preservation and recreation the center for biological diversity is monica bond agrees that balance is important but says there should be a greater emphasis on conservation and the forest service needs to do a

better job of protecting endangered plants and animals i'm going to beat the heat in injecting fried have the capital of the oil coated there isn't really simple management tool that the four third can you protect that the fees for example they can close an area during a brief time at the po their breeding or have never married again and the politically sensitive area or perhaps to relocate a trailer campground and in that way those people and coaching u live and enjoy a particular area members of the public have until the end of today to submit comments on the plans for the angeles cleveland san bernardino and most potter is forest the forest service is expected to finalize the plants in early two thousand and four for kpcc news i'm elsa set sail