{"id":6621,"date":"2016-08-30T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2016-08-30T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T01:21:01","slug":"san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-management-plan-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/08\/30\/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-management-plan-released\/","title":{"rendered":"San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Management Plan Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"San<\/a>On August 17, the Forest Service released the remaining chapters of the draft Environmental Analysis (EA) and draft Management Plan. The plan will guide the management of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (Monument) by the Forest Service.<\/p>\n

The biggest changes are those mandated by the Presidential Proclamation, including the development of a Transportation Plan, to address parking and overcrowding. Nothing in the draft plan changes mountain bike access to trails within the Monument or the National Forest. It does however, update the current Management Plan to include the Pleasant View Ridge and Magic Mountain Wilderness areas which were designated after the current Forest Management Plan plan was last updated in 2005.<\/p>\n

Some sources have described the draft plan as “toothless.<\/a>” \u00a0It is short on specifics and lacks details of how many of the objectives and desired conditions will be achieved. However, it isn’t meant to cover specifics.\u00a0Those\u00a0are on-the-ground project-level decisions, that must be in compliance with the Plan. The draft Plan\u00a0takes much of the current Forest Management Plan’s existing language and direction, which provides management guidance that was\u00a0deemed to be in compliance with the mandates of the Presidential Proclamation. Therefore many of those sections weren’t considered to be in need of change. The Plan appears as Appendix C of the draft EA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for improvement and more specific direction. The San Gabriel Mountains Community Collaborative (Collaborative) is undertaking a deep analysis of the plan.\u00a0CORBA will be submitting comments, and will also submit\u00a0comments as a member organization of the Collaborative. We encourage all\u00a0to attend a meeting or the online webinar and submit comments, expressing your support for continued and improved mountain biking recreation.<\/p>\n

Meeting dates and locations:<\/p>\n

September 10, 1 – 3 pm, Online Webinar. Register at http:\/\/bit.ly\/monumentwebinar<\/a><\/p>\n

September 14, 3 – 8 pm, Pico House, 430 N. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012<\/p>\n

September 15, 4 – 8 pm, The Centre, 20880 Centre Pointe Pkwy, Santa Clarita, CA 91350<\/p>\n

September 17, 10 am – 2 pm, ANF Headquarters, 701 N. Santa Anita Avenue, Arcadia, CA 91006<\/p>\n

October 4, 3:30 – 7:30 pm, Big Pines Lodge, Angeles Crest Highway, Wrightwood, CA 92397<\/p>\n

The Collaborative\u00a0have requested that at least one of the public meeting presentations be recorded and made available online for those\u00a0whose schedules don’t allow them to attend one of the public meetings.<\/p>\n

Public comments are due by October 17. <\/strong>Comments can be submitted through the project website at http:\/\/bit.ly\/monumentpublicmeeting<\/a><\/p>\n

The Forest Service aims to have the final plan, addressing any comments received, next spring, followed by a formal objection period for anyone who submitted comments and believes they were not addressed. The proclamation mandates the plan be completed by October 10, 2017.<\/p>\n

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On August 17, the Forest Service released the remaining chapters of the draft Environmental Analysis (EA) and draft Management Plan. The plan will guide the management of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (Monument) by the Forest Service. The biggest changes are those mandated by the Presidential Proclamation, including the development of a Transportation Plan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,13,313],"tags":[380,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6630,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}