Is the Forest route inventory complete?
The Forest began using global positioning system (GPS) technology to field verify roads and trails in 1999. Though substantially complete by 2003, additional routes have been added from 2004 through 2006 based on additional field inventory and validated contributions from the public and Sevier County. The forest has intensively updated and corrected the transportation atlas in a Geographic Information System (GIS) since 2003. However, the inventory of authorized and most unauthorized routes is now essentially complete. A thorough inventory is not required by the travel management rules in 36 CFR parts 212 and 261.