The Tongass National Forest is extending the comment period to give the public additional time to comment on new outfitter and guide allocations.
The Tongass National Forest is proposing new outfitter and guide allocations on the Tongass National Forest marine shoreline zone to be consistent with the 2008 Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan. The Shoreline II Outfitter/Guide project Draft Environmental Impact Statement proposes to allocate 80,305 service days to non-motorized outfitter/guide activities that originate from the marine shoreline zone on the Sitka, Hoonah, Juneau and ranger districts and Admiralty Island National Monument.
The DEIS proposes to incorporate an adaptive management strategy that will allow for flexibility to allocate additional service days based on monitoring efforts and an additional strategy to align cross-district consistency in issuing big game guide special use permits.
For more information, go to the project website at go.usa.gov/Pzi.
