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An additional carrot for a plan favorable to OHV recreation is the fact that agencies managing OHV parks similar to this receive annual grants of sums that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for operation, maintenance, and law enforcement. Forest Service managers in this day and age of tight funding are encouraged to be innovative in seeking and constructing partnerships that bring additional funding to maintain their organization. The due date for comments was April 15, 2005, but the ranger district has indicated that to be a flexible date and will accept late FRPPHQWV7KHGLVWULFW¶VLQWHUGLVFLSOLQDU\WHDPZRUNRQWKHSURSRVDOKDVH[SHULHQFHGGHOD\VFDXVHGE\SHUVRQQHOFKDQJHVDQGZLOd-