Baker-Snoqualmie Planning Meetings July 9,10,11

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The Forest Service is embarking on a five-year process to determine how to maximize recreation opportunities for the public with limited funding. Known as Recreation Site Facilities Master Planning, this process will help each forest determine its unique recreation niche, and identify sites that best help them fill that niche.

 

“This study will look at the operation and maintenance of the campgrounds, picnic areas, trailheads, lookouts, visitor centers, and other facilities” on the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie, said Rob Iwamoto, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Supervisor. Although trails are not included in this list, many of these sites are regularly used by hikers in the course of our trips, so it behooves us to let the forest know how they can best manage facilities for the hiking public.

 

You can do just that by attending a planning workshop. Three workshops are planned for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie region. Please plan on attending one of them! This is an important opportunity to get your voice heard on a process that will affect hikers for many years to come.

 

The dates and locations of the meetings are:

 

July 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m., REI Flagship Store, 222 Yale Ave. North, Seattle, WA

July 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Mt. Baker Ranger District, 810 State Route 20, Sedro-Woolley, WA

July 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Algona-Pacific Library, 255 Ellingson Road Pacific, Algona, WA

 

This information was sent to me by the Washington Trails Association.