The following documents are published by the Mendocino
National Forest and the US Forest Service. While many of these documents are also
found on other pages on our web site, they have been
linked here for ease of use.
Some of the documents on this web site are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you need to download the software, visit the Adobe web site.
Four times a year, the Mendocino National Forest publishes a quarterly Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) which provides project information, status, and contacts.
The business plan (pdf 2.44mb) answers such questions as: What is the business of this forest? What are the functional responsibilities and operational standards of the organization? How much money does this forest need to operate within appropriate standards? What is the forest's financial situation? It provides the forest managers with a powerful tool to communicate the current and future work of their organizations.
The National Forest system Road Management Rule (Road Policy), issued in 2001, shifted emphasis from developing forest roads to improving their management. The rule was developed in response to public demand and the need to better utilize funds available for road management.
2002 Roads Analysis Process Newsletters.
Final Report
Road
Analysis Process -
January, 2003
To help make your visit to the Mendocino National Forest more pleasurable please browse through our Visitor Guides.
The 1995 Forest Plan is available online as a series of tagged pdf files or you may order a copy on CD from the Forest Supervisor's Office.
The National Headquarters of the Forest Service has links to additional documents that can provide more information about the work of the Forest Service or you might try one of the following for additional publications:
Our Directives are part of the Forest Service Manual and Forest Service Handbook.
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