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Forest Service drops Herbert Glacier cabin plans, proposes trail reroute and scenic overlook instead

In a Jan. 24 draft decision, the U.S. Forest Service said it would not move forward with constructing the Herbert Glacier cabin due to “the complexity of the cabin location and ongoing capacity challenges.”


Though the area where the cabin is proposed is under federal mining claims, the Forest Service says that those claims did not influence the decision not to move forward with the cabin…(Read full story)

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