At a public meeting, some participants reiterated concerns that had been circulating in Plumas and Lassen counties about fire hazards, crime, and damage to natural and cultural resources.
2006 file photograph: Rainbow Family members arrive in the Routt National Forest north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., for the annual Rainbow Family gathering. Amid community resistance to the unlicensed Rainbow Family gathering near Susanville, the U.S. Forest Service issued an order barring anyone from entering an area that includes that group’s campsite.
The Forest Service brought in an incident management team and sent patrols on walk-throughs as the site was being set up by about 500 Rainbow Family members, the agency’s employees said during a public meeting on Tuesday, June 25. Since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light has converged each summer on undeveloped public land for what the blog described as “a non-commercial backcountry camping experience where we practice how to live in peace.
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