Recreation Site Facility Master Planning is a 6 year old Forest Service program. Its purpose is to reduce the number of maintained recreation sites and to ensure that those sites which remain open will be the least costly to maintain and/or the most profitable to operate.

RS-FMP, as this program has been called since its inception, became EXTREMELY controversial when brought to the media's attention by Wild Wilderness and the Western Slope No-Fee Coalition. It became SO CONTROVERSIAL that outgoing Chief of the Forest Service Dale Bosworth, as one of his last items of business, temporarily halted the program. Bosworth assured the public that  RS-FMP  would undergo intensive internal review and that changes would be made as required.

This month, the Recreation Site Facility Master Planning program was terminated. RE-FMP was replaced with something called "Recreation Site Analysis" (RSA).

The first RSA has just been released.  This new report appears to be virtually IDENTICAL to older RS-FMP reports. About all that has changed is the program name and logo -- and, to be frank,  the logo has not changed much.

Here are the BEFORE and AFTER comparison. Note that the dollar sign has been removed from the word "Sustainability". Note also that what appears to be writing has been added to the information board.

The implied message is that the Forest Service will no longer keep the public in dark and will no longer focus narrowly upon making recreation into a financially $ustainable business.  I'd suggest that nothing of substance has changed.

Scott 

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