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Show Salt Lake City Watershed Management Plan ' 99 COMMENTS RESPONSES " Degradation of the watershed lands could Thank you for your comment. be addressed with better off- road enforcement - even though we have many Sheriffs Deputies patrolling, they are of necessity mainly working near the highway corridor. The need is for hiking/ biking/ skiing off- road patrollers to visit the vast areas inaccessible by conventional vehicles." Little Cottonwood Canyon A comment stated the fee station language is Thank you for your comment. too vague. Alta has instituted an information booth that has increased visitor contact and provided information without charging the visitors. " The concerns about the fee station at the Thank you for your comment. mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon are evident. The intersection of S. R. 210 and S. R. 209 has historically created its own traffic congestion problems. If a fee booth were to be added this would only compound that problem. It appears to me that the fee booth is a land use issue and not a watershed issue.... There is no question that more money should be appropriated for improvements within the Salt Lake Ranger District, but is a fee booth restricting use for commercial operations within Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons the answer?" Page 133 |