Projects & Plans - Wilderness Planning Efforts
Trail and Commercial Pack Stock Management in the Ansel Adams
and John Muir Wildernesses EIS
This project
is a joint Inyo/Sierra National Forest project that analyzes commercial
pack stock use in the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wildernesses. The
final EIS and decision were released in December 2005. They identified
levels and terms of commercial pack stock use in these two wildernesses.
Project Update 5/3/2006: The Record of Decision and Final EIS are now available for review.
Click on the following link to access the Final EIS Project documents.
Click on the following link to access the Final EIS Errata #1 .
Click on the following link to access the Final EIS Errata #2.
For more information,
contact MaryBeth Hennessy, Wilderness Specialist at (760)
873-2448
Commercial Pack Station and Pack Stock Outfitter/Guide Permit
Issuance EIS
This project
analyzes commercial pack station operations and activities in the
Golden Trout and South Sierra Wildernesses and non-wilderness portions
of the Inyo National Forest. The EIS for this project tiers to the
Trail and Commercial Pack Stock Management EIS in that the project
will authorize the uses and levels of commercial pack stock in the
Ansel Adams and John Muir Wildernesses. A concurrent effort is being
undertaken by the Sierra National Forest. For information about
their commercial pack station permit issuance EIS, go to http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sierra/projects/.
Project Update 08/21/2007:
The Record of Decision (ROD) and Final EIS (FEIS) are now
available for review. Please follow this
link to access the ROD and DEIS documents. Please follow this
link to access the Final EIS Errata
#2, #3, #4 and #5.
For more information, contact Erin Lutrick, Project Leader, at
(760) 873-2545 or elutrick@fs.fed.us.
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