- TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST E BIKE COMMENTS (Action needed)
The USDA Forest Service Tahoe National Forest is at the beginning stages of planning an environmental analysis for the Tahoe National Forest E-Bike Trail Designation Project. A legal notice to prepare an environmental assessment is anticipated to be published September 6, 2024.The Forest Service proposes to designate select trails, on up to 143 miles of Forest Service system trails, as open to Class 1 E-Bikes throughout Tahoe National Forest in the counties of: Nevada, Placer, Sierra and Yuba.
If you would like to provide scoping input, please submit written comments within 30 days of the date the legal notice is published in Grass Valley’s The Union newspaper. Commenters should not rely upon dates or time frame information provided by any other source. It is the commenter’s responsibility to ensure timely receipt of comments (36 CFR 218.25).
The project is on the Tahoe’s Project web page at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/tahoe/?project=66218 (if link does not work, please copy and paste into your browser). You can also find it on the Tahoe National Forest home page. Refer to the upper tabs under “Managing the Land”, then select “Projects.” Once on the Tahoe Projects web page, scroll down and select “Tahoe National Forest E-Bike Trail Designation”. On that Project’s web page under Project Documents, select the “Scoping” folder for project information. Under the right-hand column heading “Get Connected”, select “Comment/ Object on Project”.
Postal comments may be sent to: Forest Supervisor, Attn: Beth Martinez, Tahoe National Forest Acting Forest Supervisor, c/o Karen Walden, Attn: Forest E-Bike Trail Designation, 631 Coyote Street, Nevada City, CA, 95959.
- BCHA encourages all members to use the E-Bike Reporting Form and the Horse Camp Incident Form when they see problems.