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BRC National Land Use Action Alert
Huron Manistee National Forests Revision Affects ROS
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SITUATION:
The 2006 Huron-Manistee NF Forest Plan was challenged in U.S. District Court in July of 2007. The challenge was brought by a anti-access/anti-hunting activist attorney who is seeking to ban all firearm hunting and motorized uses in areas with a Semi-Primitive Non Motorized (SPNM) Recreation Opportunity Spectrum classification.

Initially, the courts ruled in favor of the Forest Service which had allowed firearm hunting and snowmobile use in SPNM areas. However, an appeal was filed with the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals which successfully reversed the prior decision. The appeals court found deficiencies in how the agency applied the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum ...