Bowmannate2000
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That's kind of what I was getting at. Looking up this info keeps them from getting their regular work done. Also, it would be good for these departments to invest in technology that would make this kind of information available through an online portal going forward. I know that is not likely to happen anytime soon though.Every BLM and Forest Service office is way understaffed and everyone is doing the job of three or four people. The information you want, more than likely, has never been put on any kind of data base so who ever needs to get it for you will have to go through every single permit individually and tabulate it for you. Those permits may not even be digitized so that person will have to drag the paperwork out of some old file cabinet. All the time they are spending on that is taking away from the time they want to be spending on that other project that their supervisor has been giving them sh*t abut because it is three weeks overdue. If you want the information for more than one forest or BLM district you will have to piss someone off in each office because that kind of info is not shared between offices.
After that person gets all that info together and gives it to you It would be very easy to then give it to the GIS person in the office, to be put on a database, so that the next person who wants the info would have it with a mouse click. But he or she won't because they are so pissed off and hurried that it won't even cross their mind to do so.