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Report on Chattahoochee Forest roads hits obstacle
Number of overdue projects growing in national forest
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A car moves along Dicks Creek Road last spring in the Chattahoochee National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service is pushing off completion of a public roads plan in the forest from spring to probably summer because of leadership transition in the Gainesville-based district.
Completion of a study of the Chattahoochee National Forests’ road system has been slowed by a leadership change in the Gainesville-based Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. The previous U.S. Forest Service supervisor, George Bain, who had been named 2012 Federal Land Manager of the Year, left soon after the award in October to take a director’s position in Montana, said Judy Toppins, spokeswoman for Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. “We’re hoping to have a new forest supervisor by the end of the spring,” she said.