Update on Eldorado National Forest's Travel Plan

Join BRC in our continued fight to preserve and protect access to historic recreational roads and trails in the Eldorado National Forest. Anti-access groups are preparing to demand that this Forest's plan—which closes over 1,000 miles of routes, including approximately 400 miles of system roads and trails—be used as a national "model" by which other travel plans should be patterned.

There is no better place to stand and fight for our access rights and fair treatment by the government than this effort.

Won't you join us and support Team Blue in this critical juncture in travel management planning on Forest Service System Lands?

The following link will take you to our Contribute page and will automatically specify what your contribution is for. Simply fill out the rest of the form to make your donation!

Contribute to the Eldorado Legal Fund

Latest Update: Access Groups File Appeal

The BlueRibbon Coalition, along with numerous participating individual and organizational members, including (but not limited to) the California Enduro Riders Association, American Motorcyclists Association D36 and the California Association of 4 Wheel Drive Clubs, filed an administrative appeal of the Eldorado National Forest Public Wheeled Motorized Travel Management plan.

The Travel Plan closed over 1000 miles of existing roads and trails across the forest, and not just the so-called "user created" routes, but also roads and trails that had long been depicted as open to travel in previous Forest Service travel maps.

The appeal, filed on May 15, 2008, alleged the Forest Service violated numerous provisions of law and regulation including failing to formulate a reasonable range of alternatives, failing to provide adequate analysis to justify the massive closures, inadequate provision for dispersed camping/big game retrieval, and illegal application of the 2001 "Roadless Rule."

For continued updates on this and other travel planning in California and across the U.S. Forest Service, subscribe to BRC's Action Alert list.

The full text of the appeal is available in PDF format here.