OPEN HOUSE REGARDING

Albion Basin Transportation Feasibility Study

Monday, July 20th

Our Lady of the Snows

4pm-6pm 

20 min presentation at 4:30pm

The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Service

is conducting the "Albion Basin Transportation Feasibility Study" and wants your input!

The goal is to develop a range of summer transportation alternatives for Albion Basin. The overall effort will include include a study of the existing road and trail system, potential transit modes, a visitor survey, economic analysis, and initial environmental condition review. Data and alternatives will be used to develop a sustainable visitor and resource capacity and initiate further NEPA analysis.

Albion Basin is a small heavily visited land area with special recreation and natural resource attributes concentrated in 1,700 acres with one 2.5-mile road. With summer visitation estimated at 270,000 and average daily traffic counts of 700, there is increasing concern about impacts to natural resources. Albion Basin presents an opportunity to serve as a model for implementing alternative transportation in a small ecologically sensitive area with high visitation. The Forest Service hopes that a successful endeavor will help determine a sustainable distribution of activity, and that these strategies could be applied to other areas in the Tri-Canyons experiencing the same transportation-related issues on a larger more complex land base.

FOREST SERVICE CONTACT PERSON
Name: Carol Majeske Phone: 801-733-2662
Position: Recreation Staff Officer E-mail: cmajeske@fs.fed.us [1]
Address: Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Salt Lake Ranger District
6944 South 3000 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121