Recopied from my comments on another forum, I think this was not the right decision for the forest supervisor to make, correct anything I have said wrong:
http://www.reno4x4.com/forum/showthread.php/71205-Yay!!!-Finally-some-good-news!!!
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Preface: I attended the public comments on the seis and talked Karen myself for a while on these closures, this news is better than complete closure - but is not as good as it should have been in my opinion, still a loss for an indefinite while ...
I don't think the forest supervisor did enough, option 1 or 2 would have been a real win for ohv wheeled use. Option 3 which she chose, keeps the major trails, Deer Valley, Barret, Strawberry etc closed or severed until the "repairs" are made. Please correct me if I am wrong on this and my mood will improve. If it takes years to gather the funds or support to "re-engineer" the trails, well then they are closed for that long. Some of those trails could still be closed 3-5 years from now, or longer is a real possibility - unless clubs and volunteers step up to work on the trails. I don't see the government having funds to throw around for "environment analyses and engineering designs." What she should have chose in my opinion was to re-open those routes to ohv use immediatly (and she had the power) with stipulation that the repairs had to be made under some certain timeline. They never should have been closed in the first place. Note that only 24 are actually designated as ohv. The other 18 are not ohv at this time ... meanwhile this leaves a window of opportunity for the other side, CBD etc, to further the effort to make the designations never happen.
Again I understand this is somewhat good news, just not good enough given the breadth of closures we are facing everywhere. The right option was not chose in my opinion but maybe that is the compromise needed to get those trails eventually reopened. Again please correct anything I have stated incorrectly.
