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FSH 2309.11 - RIM HANDBOOK
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CHAPTER 120 - RIM DOCUMENTS
123 - USE AND ACTIVITIES. Only that portion of recreation use which occurs on lands or waters under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service should be reported as National Forest or National Grassland use. The jurisdictional responsibility for many waters within National Forest is not legally established. In the National Forest Recreation Survey, the areas of waters of unknown status were inventoried as part of the National Forest recreation resource on the basis of the proportional percentage of shoreline under Forest Service jurisdiction for each water body. For example, a lake with 50 percent of the shoreline under Forest Service jurisdiction--50 percent of the total water acreage was inventoried.
This same principle of proportional shoreline applies in reporting recreation use. That part of the use of lakes or streams represented by the percentage of shoreline which is National Forest land should be reported. Such use should be attributed to a water element (Code 33.1 - 33.5) and coded to the appropriate water recreation activity (e.g. 12.1, 12.2, 22.1, 22.2). A special use calculation system which considers both proportional shoreline and other land ownership factors may be needed in special instances such as at Lake Billy Chinook.
This same procedure applies to roads and trails (Population Element Kind Codes 12.0 and 13.0). Recreation use along roads passing through the National Forests and National Grassland should be reported in proportion to the percentage of Forest Service ownership along the right-of-way.
The following guide for reporting recreational use of roads and trails will assist in serving as a "reasonableness test" where other firm data is lacking.
Trails - Generally, trails can be classed light, medium, and heavy by observation of local annual use rates. When rates are developed, you should consider the conversion of visits to visitor days including only that time actually spent on the trail. For example: If it takes one hour to hike into a lake for fishing and then one hour out, the result is 2 visitor hours of trail use per visit. Other time spent by the visitor should be reported by the activity in which he participated such as fishing, camping general, camping tent, etc.
Road use should be handled about the same as trails except it is easier to separate highway from forest roads because of the nature of the traffic, speed, etc. We realize that there are many problems related to use of road traffic information but one approach which may be useful is as follows:
Federal, State and County Highways - These routes are characterized by a diversity of traffic, and higher speeds. Basic use information on number of vehicles and type of traffic can often be obtained from State or County Highway Department. Calculate using formula:
M X N X K = Visitor Days
M = Miles within Ranger District (usually by county)
N = Annual traffic count (# vehicles) discounted for commercial or
other non-recreation traffic.
K = Constant (.0055)
The constant is based on 45 mph and 3 passengers per vehicle.
Forest Service Roads
M1 X N1 X K1 = Visitor Days
M1 = Miles within Ranger District (usually by county)
N1 = # Annual recreation vehicle
K1 = Constant (variable depending on road condition)
Lowest standard - .0111
Highest standard - . 166
In developing a constant other than shown in this letter use the travel per mile (T), number Passengers (P), and total number of minutes per visitor day (720).
TP
K = 720
For example:Ranger District "B" contains 14.7 miles of State Highway 222 all in same county. Average daily traffic equals 3700 vehicles of which 1200 are recreational. Using fourmula as follows:
M = 14.7
N = 1200 ADT = 438,000 vehicles annually
K = .0055
14.7 X 438,000 X .0055 = 35,412 Visitor Days
Other roads could be sorted into like groupings. County breakdowns can often be best determined after the total use is calculated.
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124.2 - Production and Posting of Source Documents. Winter Sports area recreation use report will utilize information entered on form R6-2300-12, Weekly Winter Sports Use (exhibit 1). It is the purpose of this form to provide Forest staffmen with sufficient information to prepare the Recreation Use Report on 2300-1 for winter sports areas in addition to being a tool for the manager.
Form R6-2300-12 will be posted by hand with daily figures whenever use occurs and will continue until the end of the winter sports season or the site is closed to skiing and related activities. One machine or carbon copy of each weekly report will be transmitted to the RO as soon as it is prepared. There is no need to retype forms. No transmittal letter is necessary. The RO will use the information to observe use trends and fill requests from other RO Divisions and numerous outside sources about winter sports sites.
On or before December 29, Forest staffmen will phone use figures to the Division of Recreation for reporting winter sports sites on 2300-1. Utilize the most recent R6-2300-12 available and estimate any use that may occur on the site up to and including December 31.
R6-2300-12 may be used for dispersed areas in addition to developed winter sports sites; however, this weekly sheet when used for dispersed areas is not required for submission to the RO. It is required that R6-2300-12 be submitted for the following sites:
SITE NAME FOREST NO.
ALPENTAL 13
ANTHONY LAKES 16
ARBUCKLE MOUNTAIN 14
BACHELOR BUTTE 1
COOPER SPUR 6
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN 13
MT. HOOD MEADOWS 6
HOODOO SKI BOWL 18
HYAK 17
LEAVENWORTH 17
LOUP LOUP SKI BOWL 8
MISSION RIDGE 17
MT. ASHLAND 10
MT. BAKER 5
MT. PILCHUCK STATE PARK 5
MULTORPOR-SKI BOWL 6
SKI ACRES 17
SNOQUALMIE SUMMIT 13
SNOW BUNNY 6
SPOUT SPRINGS 14
STARR BOWL 4
STEVENS PASS 13
SUMMIT 6
TAFT MTN. 15
TIMBERLINE 6
TOMAHAWK SKI BOWL 20
WARNER CANYON 2
WHITE PASS 13
WILLAMETTE PASS 18
Exhibit 1
SEE PAPER COPY
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124.23 - Additional Guidelines
5. Ski Area Use - Reporting of recreation visits is mandatory in Region 6 for ski areas (kind code 51.0). Two source documents are received when a ski area is located on both private and National Forest lands. Report visits in Block 1 (11-17) on the source document for National Forest lands (Block 1, item P, ownership code 1). Do not report visits on the source document for private lands (Block 1, item P, ownership Code 9). (See Section 124.24-1, 124.32a-4, and 124.32c.)
Visits at ski areas represent daily lift tickets or equivalents. Skiers with tickets for any portion of the day or night, complimentary tickets, or season pass tickets, skiing any portion of a calendar day should all be counted as a visit. Where one-ride tickets are sold, convert to visits by estimating the average number of one-ride tickets used by the average one-ride-ticket skier in a day and divide that number into the total number of such tickets sold. Do not report spectators or nonticketed visitors as visits; they are included when reporting visitor days. This skier visit definition matches the definition adopted by the National Ski Areas Association.
Where car-count records rather than lift-ticket records are used, the equivalent in visits must be calculated locally.
Do not report skier visits at "Other Winter Sports Sites" - Kind Code 51.1.
Report visits by skiers using lifts during the summer. Do not report visits of nonskiers using lifts during the summer.