Okay, I am going to unload a few tid-bits I have been collecting the past few months concerning new actions pending with land management issues.
BLM: State-wide (California), BLM does not have a good inventory of routes nor do they have good mapping data. To their credit, they are working to build a standard database of routes that reflects the management plans developed by the various field offices.
Forest Service: Everyone is painfully familiar with the route designation process and the various gyrations over the past couple of years. Well, the FS is at least trying to build a good database of their actions. I have used the term "database". Specifically, this refers to the respective agencies moving into planning efforts using data that is coded into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) layers.
