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Willamette National Forest welcomes visitor input on recreation interests
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Contact(s): Carla Robinson
Share your voice, share your vision in online survey to help guide master planning for recreational sites and post-fire landscapes
Springfield, OR – June 21, 2024 – The Willamette National Forest wants to hear from you. Forest recreation managers have been conducting community outreach workshops in the past several weeks to gather information from visitors about their recreation preferences and post-fire recovery projects. Now an online survey option is available on the Forest website for visitors to share their recreation vision with planners.
The Willamette’s substantial recreation program manages more than 425 recreation sites ranging from remote trailheads to developed campgrounds with flush toilets and showers, and it has fixed resources to maintain and improve this infrastructure.
To improve management of these sites and identify opportunities for investment, the Forest is developing a Recreation Facility Master Plan and wants to hear from you about your preferences and ideas for managing recreation sites into the future and after wildfire impacts. Those who wish to share input can do so by completing the survey and learn more about the project on the Forest website at https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/willamette/recreation/?cid=fseprd1175873.
The purpose of the community outreach campaign, “Planning for the Future: Investing in Willamette National Forest Recreation Sites”, is to help inform where the Forest should invest resources to maintain developed recreation sites and restore access in post-fire landscapes.
The in-person public engagement workshops have allowed community members to share feedback on how they like to recreate and offer ideas for improving recreation sites through a series of Human Ecology Mapping (HEM) sessions that enable planners to understand public values and uses of forest landscapes. The participatory mapping workshops, which have also been used on the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests, have included interactive applications, such as workbooks, paper maps, electronic tablets, and now this survey tool.
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