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Show Forest workshops concluded, written input still needed Forest Service officials of the Intermountain Region recently re-cently held the last of 32 workshops at 24 locations in Utah, Southern Idaho, Nevada Neva-da and western Wyoming in an effort to obtain public help in completing an inventory of roadless and undeveloped areas ar-eas in the National Forests of the region. The workshops were part of a nationwide Roadless Area Review and Evaluation Program Pro-gram announced by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture M. Rupert Cutler on June 16, 1977. Although the attendance varied from a few to several hundred, a total of 2,000 individuals participated. Participants Par-ticipants in the workshop had an opportunity to review the existing inventory. Those attending at-tending the workshops were asked to suggest additions or deletions to the inventory as well as to suggest criteria to be used by the Forest Service in evaluating such areas for wilderness or non-wilderness use. In announcing the completion comple-tion of the workshops. Forest Service officials emphasized that although the workshops were well attended, additional public input will be accepted unta September 15. 1977. Maps depicting the inven toried roadless and undeveloped undevel-oped areas are on display at the various National Forest Supervisors' offices throughout through-out the Intermountain region. Additional background data and work forms can be obtained obtain-ed at these offices. The public is urged to make their input at the earliest possible date. Forest Supervisors will e-valuate e-valuate the public input and announce their revised roadless road-less area inventory in late September. The revised list and the public's suggestions for evaluation criteria will be submitted to the Forest Service Ser-vice national office where there will be further analysis. Following review in Washington, Wash-ington, the national new inventory in-ventory will be announced in the fall. The study results will be used to update long-range Forest Service programs and local Forest land and program planning as well as provide Congress and the Administration Administra-tion a national overview concerning con-cerning the possible uses of millions of acres of unroaded lands in the National Forest System. |