$10 M+
OPEN HOUSE
Planning
for 2020
San Bernardino, California__
February 2019__ For over 20 years, San Bernardino National Forest has been a recipient of over ten million dollars from
California’s Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) grants. The money has gone to creating
and maintaining OHV staging areas and trails, route monitoring and education,
enforcing OHV regulations and restoring lands damaged by OHV use. The forest
has 65 miles of green sticker trails, 169 miles of green sticker roads and an
additional 734 miles of level 2 roads open to SUV/4-WD use, of which 104 miles
are 4-WD routes.
So what’s next for the program? That’s where the public
comes in. Forest officials are encouraging the public to provide suggestions
for grants that will improve the forest’s Off-Highway Vehicle program by either attending an open house or
sending suggestions.
The
agency plans to request grant funds from the State of
California Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVR) to enhance and manage motorized recreation in the
area.
The Southern California Mountains Foundation, a local partner, will also submit a grant to perform work
on Forest Service lands.
The Open House will be held Thursday, February 7, 2019, to
discuss the next opportunity in Off-Highway Vehicle grant funding from the
state. The informal open house will run from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M., in San
Bernardino at the San Bernardino
National Forest Headquarters, located at 602 South Tippecanoe
Avenue.
Interested citizens are invited to drop in at any time
during the Open House. Representatives from the Forest Service and the Southern
California Mountains Foundation will be available to answer questions about
potential grants and to receive ideas about the types of projects and other
opportunities to be funded through the grants.
If you
are unable to attend the meeting, or have any questions, the Forest Service would
like to receive your input about the grants. The preference for receiving
comments is by email.
Please
send comments to Linda Stamer at lstamer@fs.fed.us by February 15th with the words OHV
Grant Application in the subject line.
If you
are unable to send comments electronically, you may send them to the following
address:
OHV Grant
Application
Linda Stamer, USFS Supervisor’s Office
602 South Tippecanoe Avenue, San
Bernardino, CA 92408
Preliminary grant applications will
be submitted to the OHMVR Division on March 4, 2019. The public will be
able to comment on the preliminary applications from March 5 through May 6,
2019.
Final applications will be submitted
by June 3, 2019. For more information about the state grant process and
requirements, visit the OHMVR Division website at www.ohv.parks.ca.gov
If you have questions
about these grants, please write or call Linda Stamer at lstamer@fs.fed.us
or 909-382-2738.