Shasta-Trinity National Forest Announces OHV Tech Position - Applications Due March 14

Popular Single-Track Trail on Shasta-Trinity NF

Let's Get it Designated!

As many of you know, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest is wanting to develop a formal OHV recreation program to work on post-subpart B trail projects that were not part of the original TMR subpart-B planning effort.

HQ wants to thank his friends with the Redding Dirt Riders for sending this employment announcement about a new trail position on the Shasta-Trinity NF.

NOTE below from FS regarding position
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The Shasta-Trinity National Forest is advertising to fill a Recreation Forestry Technician (OHV) GS-0462-09 with a duty station of Redding, California. Please share this information with your network or others who may be interested. If interested in this position, apply to the vacancy announcement number listed below by March 14, 2011.

11-0514140000-02724G-MFS (Current or previous permanent federal employees or excepted hiring status)

11-0514140000-02724DP-MFS (open to the public) The vacancy announcement for this position is listed on the USAJOBS website: http://www.usajobs.gov/

and applications can be completed at http://www.avuedigitalservices.com/usfs/applicant.html

Please contact Brenda Tracy at (530)-226-2430 or btracy@fs.fed.us
for further information.

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HQ asks that you forward this information to your trail network. This is a very good step in the right direction.

Forest Service "Trees and Trails" Concept

Recently key trail and recreation stakeholders were invited to attend a meeting in Fairfield, California with Region 5/Forest Service where they unveiled Randy Moore’s “Trees and Trails” vision for the future. Randy is the regional forester for R5.

Trees and Trails Concept:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/news/2008/trees-trails.shtml

As some of you know, the FS has historically focused on the extractive industry where often "Recreation" is at the bottom of the priority and funding list.

On behalf of the BlueRibbon Coalition, I attended the mid 1990s Forest Congress and the 1999 Recreation Congress where the FS and stakeholders talked about recreation but not much was done.

This Trees and Trails concept is the first FS "recreation" oriented theme/effort of any size/scope that I have seen.

The group voted to move forward with having the agency look at starting a state-wide stakeholders group this year. Also a number of other concepts were voted on.

There was a lot of enthusiasm in the room and it appears the FS and other trail partners want to work together for the good of trails, the forest, and recreation.

I know we have been disappointed in the past with the agency's lack of attention or focus on recreation issues, but I think this appears to be something more substantive and may actually have a chance to succeed. Maybe recreation will no longer be considered as the “crazy uncle in the basement” but rather be invited to sit at the table with the other adults.

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