Letter to Jerry Ingersoll

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Mr. Jerry Ingersoll

Forest Supervisor



Project 34220

Designating motorized vehicle routes in the 10C Management Area of the Oregon Dunes NRA





The Forest Service has been working on this plan since 1990 and then updated it with the new 1994 Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Plan and again doing a update for 2012. Since that time the ODNRA has more than twice as many users and you are shrinking the area in which we have available to ride.

Take a look at the 1960 photo that was shown at these 10c meetings and the photos that the Forest Service is showing now and you can see for yourself how much open sand has been smoothed out by noxious weeds ie. scotch broom & beach grass. Every time you close an area the more dunes we lose, eventually there will be no more Sand Dunes within the ODNRA. Each year following the winter rains and the water recedes in the deflation plain we also lose more open riding area.

The Forest Service has plans to take away 103 miles of trails that they say are user created, at least half were created well before the 1990 or 1994 plan, all of those trails should be allowed to stay as user created trails.

The motto of the Forest Service is “Caring for the Land and serving the people”

The people you are serving are NOT the OHV user.







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You may copy my letter or use part of it and add your own ideas and thoughts and what closing the trails & the dunes means to your family

Barbara