The Forest Service will hold 25 open houses about its
proposed 18-month moratorium on building new roads in the nation’s
forests. Meetings will be held in California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, beginning March 17.
For information about where and when, call Alan Polk at
202/205-1134 or check the Web at http://www.fs.fed.us/news/roads.
If you’re trying to submit e-mail comments on the proposal, don’t
use the address we gave you (HCN, 2/2/98). The correct address is
roads/wo@fs.fed.us, and the comment period has been extended until
March 30.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 18-month moratorium.