Shasta-Trinity National Forest issues recreation restrictions to Panther Basin and Panther Meadow to protect natural and cultural resources
Press release from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service:
Shasta-Trinity National Forest [photo from fs.usda.gov]
The Shasta-Trinity National Forest has issued restrictions to camping, parking, water recreation and other activities for Panther Meadow to protect historic and natural resources.
The restrictions are due to concerns of long-term environmental impacts in the area. Sensitive vegetation continues to be trampled and dispersed camping areas continue to expand in size causing soil compaction and other resource damage. Additionally, Panther Meadows is considered a sacred area by several local Native American groups that use the area for spiritual ceremonies, prayer, and healing
Pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 551 and 36 C.F.R. § 261.50(a), and to protect natural resources, the following acts are prohibited within the Shasta-McCloud Management Unit of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. This Order is effective from August 14, 2024, through August 14, 2026.
- Camping within the Panther Basin area, except within Panther Meadows Campground, as described in Exhibit A and shown on Exhibit C. 36 C.F.R. §261.58(e).
- Parking as follows:
- In the Lower Ski Bowl Parking Lot for more than three consecutive nights.
- At the South Gate Trailhead for more than seven consecutive nights. 36 C.F.R. § 261.58(g).
- Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire, except aportable stove using gas, jellied petroleum or pressurized liquid fuel, with a shut offvalve within the Panther Basin area, as described in Exhibit A and shown on ExhibitC.36 C.F.R. § 261.52(a).
- Being in the Panther Meadows area with a group larger than 10 persons, as describedin Exhibit B and shown on Exhibit D. 36 C.F.R. § 261.58(f).
- Being in a body of water within the Panther Meadows area, as described in Exhibit Band shown on Exhibit D. 36 C.F.R. § 261.58(k).
- Being publicly nude within the Panther Meadows area, as described in Exhibit B andshown on Exhibit D. 36 C.F.R. § 261.58(j).
- Possessing any dog not on a leash of six feet or less in the Panther Meadows area, as described in Exhibit B and shown on Exhibit D. 36 CFR § 261.58(s).
Pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 261.50(e), the following persons are exempt from this Order:
Persons with Forest Service Permit No. FS-7700-48 (Permit for Use of Roads,Trails, or Areas Restricted by Regulation or Order), specifically exempting them from this Order.
Any Federal, State, or local officer, or member of an organized rescue or fire-fighting force in the performance of an official duty.
These prohibitions are in addition to the general prohibitions in 36 C.F.R. Part 261, Subpart A. A violation of these prohibitions is punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for an organization, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. 16 U.S.C. § 551 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 3559, 3571, and 3581.
For more information please contact Public Affairs Officer Kimberly Hill 209-768-0759
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Yep. The agenda is to keep people out of the forest, and national parks. They make it restrictive to hinder your excursion. They want you in your 15 minute city at all times.
Are you referring to Agenda 21? That’s all a bunch of malarkey. The fact that Mike Wilson is listed as Humboldt County’s designated representative for the ICLEI Organization, and that ICLEI’s climate goals have been woven into the Humboldt County General plan since 2007 is merely a coincidence.
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it” is a quote by Henry David Thoreau about authority, conformity, and rules.
I particularly liked the rule against “Being publicly nude within the Panther Meadows area,” One would think that being nude in a nature area would be required.
Right?! I think most modern clothing in a raw natural setting is an abomination to the creator…
There is no such thing as a “native american” no apes or humans evolved on the north or south american continents. We are all immigrants. You could call them first arrivers but not native. We all came from somewhere else….
How about “First Immigrants?” It would certainly oppose the religious beliefs of some peoples about originating a certain place but that’s a consequence that science gives to any religion.
First immigrants is great. Science does tend to negate “religious” beliefs.
Yeah, being here for 20 millennia plus before the Europeans arrived means the first peoples just got here shortly before. So it’s all cool right? No big deal.
Of course not. It’s a big deal to dispossess any group of Americans. But to prioritize which group has a claim on just about every bit of public land based on being here before another group? If last in, first out is really a principle for such governmental decisions, why does not the same government find itself unable to deport even criminal immigrants who just arrived? How can liberal commenters cry “racist” and “xenophobia” when they approve exactly race and native origin being a valid priority when it involves Indians but abhorrent and criminal when it involves people whose ancestors have lived here for only 500 years if they complain about those who arrived yesterday?
There are just so many irrationalities in liberal deliveries of guilt that it leads to the thought creeping in that there are no actual ideals involved. Just that they have a gut reaction giving themselves self importance in that attacking those they see as having power, no matter how cruel, petty and meanly they go about it, is fine because they don’t really vitally damage the powerful and thus never bear same guilt that they dump on others. Too bad the damage they do is that of termites, unnoticed until the house collapses.
Did the European Americans have treaties that were broken time and again? Well they did break the treaties, that’s for sure. European Americans lied, disregarded and flat out did whatever the fuck they wanted, completely ignoring the treaties and then the Federal Government would come in and defend THEM.
I can follow the journey of one of my Ancestors back into the 18th century. The forced removal of the people (it was a kind of Trail of Tears in it’s own right) from Ohio to Kansas, and then when another treaty was broken a group voluntarily removed themselves from Kansas to the NE corner of Indian Territory to join other exiled Iroquoians (writ large as a language family). They wanted to keep the old ways and were called Breechclout Indians for this. My grandmother’s birth certificate says she was born in Indian Territory. You’ll know it as Oklahoma.
When the Boldt Decision came down 50 years ago, a whole lot of European fisherman had to change the way and where they fished. But I was pleased because for once (at the time) a fucking treaty was ruled valid and enforceable.
Though, a few after the Boldt decision, oddly enough, I was fishing with a Washington salmon fleet who had migrated down to northern California to fish. I, being from here, was the one who taught them how to punch bait. And before you say anything, California boats would come north as well. As an aside, we (the Washington fleet) were fishing off of Mendocino when Mt. St. Helens blew. There were no cell phones and the Marie Operator was swamped and all we were hearing were radio rumors about how bad it was so everyone pulled their gear and ran to Eureka so they could find out if their families and homes were safe.
How do you use “punch bait” for salmon fishing?
How to take the public out of Public Lands. It’s always surprising when a government official cites native religious practices as a reason for any regulation considering the Constitution’s Frist Amendment specifies “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act said the government can not restrict religious ceremonies but that’s a far cry from that to restricting others in order to facilitate those ceremonies.
Another phrase I love is “critical cultural resource” I think that means some long dead person may have done something, anything and some other “modern” person finds it adorable. Who cares? Everyplace, everywhere can be considered a “critical cultural resource”. I think where my great grandparents created my parents should be a “critical cultural resource ” and no one should be allowed to do anything at this”sacred” site. Get over it.
I still remember the disorienting shock of the first time a State Park Ranger said there were European artifacts and Indian artifacts when I had thought there were just artifacts of different Americans. Until then I saw myself as an American trying to get along with other Americans. Suddenly the whole world view changed. I was considered a European (who certainly don’t consider me that) and America as an ideal ceased to exist.
It was healthy in a way because it ripped of the illusion that most other Americans thought the same way. But that sort of divisiveness has lead to the bitterness of those who feel abused by other Americans becoming everyone’s universal bitterness. The actuality of the slogan “No peace without justice” when justice is not even definable. It simply leaves behind no peace.
No accommodation can be found. It’s all Pelosi versus Trump war of absolutes and no Quaker like conflict resolution. Maybe it’s good to know utopia doesn’t have a possibility but it’s really awful to settle for living in a giant perpetual homeless camp as the alternative.
Sounds like you’re using you brain and good for you. That’s offensive to a great many people. Critical thinking is a rare gift.
The traffic is astonishing-spent the night up there recently and cars non stop ALL NIGHT LONG.
it was a terrible night’s sleep yo
i used to live up there, living on government peanut butter, dumpsterdived vegetables, and LSD but that was almost 40 yrs ago.. we did homelessness the proper way.
I’m all for protecting nature, but some of these seem over the top and entirely unnecessary-
unless they’re simply designed to keep people from coming in the first place.
I don’t know about this situation, but some parks and public lands are being “loved to death”. I even saw this on a smaller scale when I worked for the BLM on the Oregon coast over 30 years ago. Some people do trample and others do insist on climbing that fence that clearly says “Do not climb this fence”. That fence protected an area where a 3000 year old man’s reburial was kept secret. The person was reburied after being found in an emergency dig because of erosion. Oh and the fence was to protect visitors because the cliffs were eroding.
Personally, because only a few of us knew where the new burial was, I was inclined to let them climb that fence to get closer to the highly eroding cliff and Darwin themselves. Another ranger very politely told some asshole that it wasn’t safe, very nicely, and the climber assaulted him.
Anyway. There probably is an over reaction, but some people are why we can’t have nice things.
I’m laughing. Shortly after I posted this, this came up in my news feed:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article291069285.html
Yellowstone tourist takes stolen tow truck on joyride around Old Faithful, feds say
edited to add a not so fun fact, also at Yellowstone:
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240704.htm
shooting in Yellowstone National Park
Yet again the underlying and root cause of the problem is….Too Many Humans! Ta da! A couple Billion over the Earth’s carrying/sustainable capacity. Got any solutions? I know you’re the guy who wants us to keep all the torture – murderers, rapists and child molesters alive forever …
Keeping people alive forever?
Is that a thing now? That might actually come with some negative implications.
The current method of keeping rapists and murderers in prison also seems to have a secondary benefit of keeping them out of National Parks and Forests.
As for what to do about overpopulation? Breed less.
I have a solution, you know what it is. Makes me unpopular here with some folks….
Some say that Panther Meadows is a vortex, similar to Sedona AZ. I’m ok with keeping the influencers and droves of city folk who don’t know anything about LNT practices out of this area. It is believed by local tribes who have lived there since time immemoria that the spring there is the cradle of creation. The Yurok would do the same to the mouth of the Klamath if it was being destroyed by thousands of visiting people.
I was a video a few years ago of some large natives picking up a meditating hippie and carrying him out of the Meadow. He protested that he comes there every year and silently prays and didn’t disturb a blade of grass, but the FBI (F#*+ing Big Indians) hauled him out. Left me with mixed feelings.
Problem w hippies is if you let them do their thing the next thing you know you’ll have drum circles infesting all around. ONE hippie seems innocent but always know there are hordes of them just waiting to see if it’s a “cool” place to hang out …signed, Cartman
Not sure what resources “being nude” destroys? Maybe visual resources in some cases? I think maybe it’s a nanny-rule slipped in by a sexless civil servant…
Being nude needs to be restricted to people who look good nude.