The U.S. Forest Service wants your input on a harmful off-road vehicle plan for the Kaibab Plateau – the iconic plateau that forms Grand Canyon’s North Rim.
A “sky island” in red-rock country, the Kaibab Plateau boasts some of the Southwest’s last, best old-growth forests. It’s also a biodiversity hotspot, harboring endangered California condors, mountain lions, northern goshawks and a subspecies of tree squirrel – the Kaibab squirrel – found nowhere else on earth.
But the Kaibab Plateau is also criss-crossed by more than 3,300 miles of damaging roads – enough to connect Seattle to Miami – a problem the Forest Service’s new ORV plan doesn’t fix. Instead of closing damaging roads, the plan leaves most of them open – even those that the Forest Service’s own analysis shows are too harmful and expensive to maintain.
We need your help to tell the Forest Service that enough is enough.
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