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<br />;"J~ ~e:"7 <br />'J ~....._ <br /> <br />The Forest sent a letter to everyone on the Forest Plan mailing list (about 1,500 people) <br />asking for comments on travel management and informing them of open houses to <br />discuss this issue. Open houses were held at each White River National Forest district <br />office to answer questions and receive comments. About 150 people attended these <br />open houses; many more were contacted through presentations on travel management <br />to groups and organizations. Many of the comments received during scoping for the <br />Forest Plan Revision addressed site-specific travel management concerns. <br /> <br />Vacant allotments. There are 51 vacant range allotments on the Forest. The Forest is <br />evaluating whether to retain these allotments in their present vacant status (until a more <br />comprehensive site-specific analysis can be conducted), to close the vacant allotments <br />to livestock grazing, or to partially close them. A letter sent to individuals on the Forest <br />Plan mailing list asked for comments on the vacant allotments and informed them of <br />three open houses to discuss them. Forty-one people attended these open houses. <br />Public involvement to discuss the vacant allotments also included one-on-one contacts <br />and presentations to livestock groups. <br /> <br />How Public Comment Was Used in the DEIS <br /> <br />All written comments the Forest received were read and categorized by subject matter; <br />then the issues were identified. All comments were considered in the formulation of <br />themes for the six forest management alternatives analyzed for the Forest Plan Revision. <br /> <br />The six alternatives were developed using significant issues raised by the public and <br />from input from the four work groups. Also incorporated into the alternative development <br />were resource specialist experience, expertise and professional knowledge; Forest Plan <br />monitoring; and two internal planning documents -Purpose and Need/Development of <br />Planning Criteria (August 1996) and Analysis of the Management Situation (July 1997). <br /> <br /> <br />-- 7- <br />