The Forest Service has finalized its plan to decommission approximately 50 miles of unneeded and ecologically harmful roads in the Zigzag Ranger District. The Zigzag Ranger District is visited by scores of people every year because it provides access to spectacular hiking trails and campgrounds.On June 16, 2010 Bark and the Forest Service resolved Bark 's appeal of this project. While Bark is hugely supportive of the Forest Service 's plans for road decommissioning, we were forced to appeal the Forest Service 's original plan. Bark appealed the project to help craft a better and more ambitious plan, ensure that the voices of the community members and recreationists such as hikers and equestrians were incorporated in the final plan, and to reduce the influence of timber sale planning in a restoration decision making process. To resolve our appeal the Forest Service added three additional roads that are especially harmful to the City of Sandy 's drinking watershed to the list of roads to promptly decommission despite their potential to access forest stands for logging, agreed to move a trailhead out of a dangerous quarry turned de facto shooting range, and will restore that quarry to a more natural state. Significantly the Forest Service also agreed to recognize Bark as a key stakeholder and proceeded with a series of meetings where they agreed to concretely improve the entire process of crafting road decommissioning processes. This has resulted in guaranteed field days or open houses for every future road decommissioning project, better disclosure of future timber sale plans in the road decommissioning project areas, and improved descriptions of how the roads will actually be decommissioned.Thank you to everyone who submitted comments and let the Forest Service know they have to listen to the public and be ambitious with these projects. We look forward to seeing the results of this restoration effort once the road decommissioning projects get implemented.

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