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Bighorn National Officials Propose Changes To Climbing And Recreation Within Tensleep Canyon
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Thad Berrett, Powder River District Ranger, is calling for comments on the Tensleep Climbing Management Plan project.
The project proposes to manage climbing and recreation in the Tensleep Canyon project area while protecting natural resources and providing diverse recreation opportunities.
Public scoping is a critical component of the planning process.
Click here to read the proposed action
Two Forest Service hosted public meetings are planned.
A virtual public meeting is set for November 13, 2023, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MST.
An in-person public meeting will be held November 15, 2023, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MST.
The in-person public meeting will be at the Ten Sleep High School cafeteria, 242 Cedar Street, Ten Sleep, WY 82442.
Please submit comments to the Forest Service’s Comment Analysis and Response Application (CARA) web comment form:
Click here to submit comments.
All comments must be received prior to 11:59 p.m. MDT, November 24, 2023, to be considered part of the project record.
Scott Thomas
October 27, 2023 at 12:45 pm
Ten Sleep Canyon went from the pristine natural gem of this area that it is, to being completely overrun. The “dispersed” camping is not so dispersed and the entire canyon is being littered with toilet paper “teepees”. The turnouts are packed and there seems to be not oversight of defacing the cliffs when drilling and adding permanent climbing route aids. Maybe part of the plan should be some marketing of Moab where the BLM seems to have all the answers.
Shawn McDonald
October 28, 2023 at 9:12 am
What these people are doing is no different than a hunting outfitter building bridges across streams, making heliports to land near remote camps, damming up streams for fishing, the rockers are out of hand. It is hard to even go camp nearby. They squat on every access, most are californians or utahans, who preach “save the forest” but come here and in there camper vans, spend very little money locally, and when they do it at a grocery store where they steal as much as they buy. Maybe implement a permits system, limit numbers by weeks just like we have to do to camp.