The Forest Service has the Federal responsibility for national leadership in forestry. It's mission is to provide a continuing flow of natural resource goods and services to help meet the needs of the Nation and to contribute to the needs of the international community. To accomplish this, it has adopted the following objectives:

• Provide a sustained flow of renewable resources--outdoor recreation, forage, wood, water, wilderness, wildlife, and fish--in a combination that best meets the needs of society now and in the future.
• Administer the nonrenewable resources of the National Forest System to help meet the Nation's needs for energy and mineral resources.
• Promote a healthy and productive environment for the Nation's forests and rangelands
• Develop and make available scientific and technological capabilities to advance renewable natural resource management, use, and protection.
• Further natural resource conservation through cooperation with other Federal agencies and State and local government.

Meeting this mission requires the Forest Service to constantly balance the many uses and needs of the people and the Forest.

For Local Information Contact:
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
925 Weiss Drive
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 tel: (970) 870-2299
Web: Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District