For Release: October 15, 2004 #CCal-05-07
Contact: John Scull (916) 985-4474/Lorna Dobrovolny (530) 272-0298

South Yuba Planners to Focus on Washington Area

The next meeting of the South Yuba River Planning Project will be held between 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Tuesday evening, October 19 in the L.O.V.E. Building, 660 Minnie Street in Grass Valley. The upper end of the South Yuba, which includes the town of Washington and Lang's Crossing, will be the focus of attention.

Public lands, managed primarily by the Forest Service along this stretch of river, are heavily used for recreation, with many visitors coming from Truckee and Reno. In a previous meeting held in the Town of Washington, local residents and other meeting participants came up with a list of issues to be addressed in the South Yuba River Plan. In the upcoming meeting, recommendations for management actions to resolve these issues will be discussed and voted on.

The meeting will be the 34th in a series of planning meetings sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, the California Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Nevada County Planning Department. The agencies are using the community-based planning process to create the draft comprehensive management plan. This process directly involves interested private citizens in determining the contents of the draft plan by working in cooperation with each other and the land management agencies.

The South Yuba River is a popular outdoor recreation destination for many Nevada County residents as well as people from outside the region who enjoy the opportunities for swimming, hiking, sunbathing, and nature appreciation in the highly scenic river canyon.

For more information, please call the South Yuba River hot line at (530) 272-6356, or log on to the South Yuba River Plan website at http://www.southyubariverplan.com.

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