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Show forest Service seed input on roadless area inventory letions they wish to suggest. Following the workshops the maps and work materials will be available at local Forest For-est offices. Those unable to attend the workshop may review the maps and work material at local Forest Service offices until September 15, 1977. Data and comments may be submitted until the September Septem-ber 15th date. 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 a national overview concerning the pos -sible uses of millions of acres of unroaded lands in the National Forest System. tions may be in map form or by written description. The third objective of the workshops is to provide an opportunity for the public to suggest factors to be used by the Forest Service in developing de-veloping criteria for use in evaluating the areas for wilderness wild-erness or non -wilderness use. State and local Forest m aps showing inventoried roadless areas will be displayed dis-played at the workshops. Participants will also be furnished materials on which to map any additions or de- Forest Service officials of the Intermountain Region have scheduled 32 public workshops at 24 locations in Utah, southern Idaho, Nevada Ne-vada and western Wyoming during early August to obtain ob-tain public help in completing complet-ing an inventory of roadless and undeveloped areas in the National Forests of the Intermountain Region. Closest Clos-est workshop is August 16 at Richfield High School at 7:00 p.m. The workshops are part of the national Roadless Area Review and Evaluation program pro-gram announced by Assistant Assist-ant Secretary of Agriculture M. Rupert Cutler on June 16, 1977. The review is designed de-signed to refine and expand an earlier Forest Service inventory conducted in 1973. Forest Service officials explained that the expanded inventory of roadless areas is needed so land management manage-ment planning can move ahead. The information is also al-so needed for the 1980 National Na-tional Assessment of Forest and Rangeland Resources and the 1980 Forest Service program. The assessment and program are required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Act of 1974. The workshops have three primary purposes, first of which is to provide a briefing brief-ing on the purpose of the new inventory. The second major purpose is to provide the public an opportunity to suggest additions to or deletions de-letions from the existing inventory. in-ventory. Additions or dele- |
