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decision on the river management portion of the CMP. His determination for 

 the balance of the plan didn't come until April, 1984. Crowell placed no limits 

 on day-use by power boats, but did require assignment of campsites, a directive 

 never implemented. Campsite assignment would have resolved most of the 

 conflict being experienced in the canyon and imposed an indirect limit on 

 power boat overnight use. He called for continued registration of all boaters 

 and monitoring of the effects of boat use on other values. If the Forest Service 

 determined, as a result of monitoring, that adjustments to boating use levels 

 were necessary, it could do so, but not before the 1985 season and only after 

 giving notice and soliciting public involvement. 



• LAC 



The Forest Service did monitor conditions and, in response to a perceived 

 increase in boating activity throughout the river 's length, initiated a University 

 of Idaho study of use and users in 1988 and 89. This study monitored social 

 conditions that were overlooked in the original CMP. A review of the river 

 management portion of the CMP, utilizing the Limits of Acceptable Change 

 Process (LAC), began in 1990. A 22 member task force met 19 times over 22 

 months and, after 250 hours of work, hammered out a compromise 

 recommended river management plan based on goals and objectives. This task 

 force consisted of representatives from all interested groups and was facilitated 

 by the University of Idaho. The plan recommended by the task force included 

 limits for both power boaters and floaters in the wild river. The premise of 

 -plans developed under the LAC process is that desired conditions are defined 

 and standards established. When monitoring shows that standards are about to 

 be exceeded, various management actions are implemented, such as education 

 or site hardening. When all else fails, regulations come into play. 



tine final LAC report was issued in September, 1991 with only two task 

 force members dissenting. 



• The 1994 Plan and EIS 



The next step in modification of the CMP was completion of an EIS in 

 compliance with NEPA. The Forest Service began that process in the fall of 

 1992 with a series of meetings for scoping and issue development. The LAC 

 recommendation was presented as a proposed alternative. Initially the Forest 

 Service had hoped that an EA would suffice and that it could be implemented 

 by spring of 1993. However, it soon became evident that an EIS would be 

 mandatory. 



On August 11, 1993 a Draft EIS was released. The years of effort, intensive 

 public involvement and hours of negotiation represented>by the LAC plan was 

 abandoned in favor of a scheme that the LAC Task Force had considered and 

 rejected as unworkable. As a preferred alternative the Forest Supervisor 



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