Coconino Forest Road Management Plan

[cosninocanines]

NEWS RELEASE

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

U.S. Forest Service

Coconino National Forest

www.fs.usda.gov/coconino

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For Immediate Release

May 13, 2013

 

Public Affairs Contacts:

Brady Smith, Coconino National Forest, 928-527-3490

 

 

Coconino National Forest to issue revised Motor Vehicle Use Maps

 

Flagstaff, AZ – On Wednesday the Coconino National Forest will issue a revised, free Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) to show all of the roads, trails and areas open to motor vehicle use on the Forest.

The free MVUM is re-issued each year and can be downloaded for use on smartphones and Garmin GPS devices at http://go.usa.gov/PEa (case sensitive). Hard copies of the map will be available at all Coconino National Forest Offices, nearby national forest offices, and other local businesses that choose to carry them.

The 2013 MVUM includes a number of updates and corrections made as a result of public input received over the past year, and the Coconino National Forest continues to request public feedback on the map and will use this information to improve the map every year.

 

“We have received hundreds of comments over the past year about our designated routes on the 2012 Motor Vehicle Use Map,” said Mike Dechter, lead planner with the Coconino National Forest. “Many of these comments were extremely helpful at pointing out errors, which we were able to fix on the 2013 version. More substantive route changes to open more routes and areas or close routes and areas will need to be reviewed through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. We expect to propose changes to the system of designated motor vehicle routes and areas in 2014 to begin the NEPA process.”

 

Errors on the 2013 MVUM or any problems with road signs on the Coconino National Forest should be reported to forest officials through the “Travel Management Feedback” form, available online at http://go.usa.gov/Qww.

 

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Mike Dechter

Coconino National Forest

NEPA, Appeals, and Litigation Coordinator

928-527-3416

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A link to downloadable map

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coconino/landmanagement/projects/?cid=stelprdb5356224

 

The new travel management rules only affect motor vehicle use, therefore you can still camp where you had before. In areas with the dot notation, you can drive up to 300 feet from the road to car camp. On routes without the notation you can park one vehicle length from the road (~30 feet) and either camp there or walk to a campsite further from the road.

[AZHUNTER05]

The smart phone map is a joke! I really hate this travel plan, they should just mark the roads that are closed.

[Elkaddict]

The smart phone map is a joke! I really hate this travel plan, they should just mark the roads that are closed.

Don't know about the smartphone map but do know I have never got it to work on my garmin 60. As far as the roads being marked closed its ridiculous . Most of these are good looking roads, not trails. And they are signed with road #'s and in some cases they have forest service signs telling you mileage to places up ahead or "road is not maintained use at your own risk"! If they would just put a road closed sticker on the vertical signs they put on all the roads a couple of years ago, it would be a start for those that want to abide by the rule. The vertical sign is already there, can't cost too much to put a sticker on it.