URGENT ACTION ALERT ON SNOWMOBILES
FOREST SERVICE PROPOSES TO OPEN UP HOOVER WILDERNESS ADDITIONS
TO ILLEGAL SNOWMOBILING!
YOUR LETTERS URGENTLY NEEDED!
 The Sonora Pass area in California's High Sierra boasts some of the state's most magnificent wild places including Yosemite National Park, the Emigrant Wilderness, the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the spectacular proposed Hoover Wilderness Addition on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
The proposed Hoover Addition is an essential, and as yet unprotected, component of the wilderness landscape in this part of the Sierra. Since 1986, when the Forest Service recommended the Hoover Addition for wilderness designation, the agency has been charged with managing the area to protect its wilderness character. The area has been closed to snowmobiling, consistent with the land management plan and the wilderness recommendation.
In the past eighteen years, however, the U.S. Forest Service, has failed to enforce the closure of the proposed Hoover Addition to snowmobiles. As a result, illegal snowmobile use in the wilderness addition has become rampant. Last winter, snowmobilers descended on the areas en masse and the Forest Service did nothing to punish the trespass. Snowmobilers not only violated the Forest Service closure for the Hoover Addition, they roamed miles into northern Yosemite National Park and the Emigrant Wilderness, and rode all over the Pacific Crest Trail.
The Forest Service now proposes, under strong pressure from local, statewide and national e special interest groups, to remove the closure of the proposed Hoover Wilderness Addition to snowmobiling and to make snowmobiling "legal" here!
Take Action Now!
Please write a brief letter to the Forest Service today to be emailed, mailed or faxed. Use your business/professional or personal letterhead. Be sure to include your name and mailing address. If you've visited any of the areas within the proposed Hoover Wilderness Additions, please mention that in your letter.
Please tell the Forest Service to maintain the current closure of the nationally significant Hoover Wilderness Addition to snowmobiles (alternative B), and to protect these special lands by diligently enforcing the closure. Please also express your support for wilderness designation for the Hoover Addition.
TALKING POINTS
* Tell the Forest Service you support Alternative B - keeping the proposed Hoover Wilderness Addition closed to over-snow motorized travel!
* Remind the Forest Service that the proposed Hoover Addition deserves to be permanently protected as wilderness, not opened up to polluting, noisy, snowmobile users who have repeatedly entered Yosemite National Park, the Emigrant Wilderness, and other areas that are legally off-limits to snowmobiles!
* Tell the Forest Service they have a legal obligation to keep snowmobiles away from the Pacific Crest Trail, Yosemite National Park the Emigrant Wilderness and out of the proposed Hoover Wilderness Addition.
* Urge Forest officials to follow its Forest Plan which requires the proposed Hoover Wilderness Addition be kept free from motorized use!
* Tell the Forest Service not to cave in to political pressure led by snowmobile use groups and other motorized recreation organizations.
Address your letter to:
Kathleen Lucich
Bridgeport Ranger District
HCR 1 Box 1000
Bridgeport, CA 93517
E-mail: comments-intermtn-humboldt-toiyabe-bridgeport@fs.fed.us
Fax: (760) 355-5394
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