The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, is committed to making its web sites accessible to all customers and employees. All of the region's web sites are undergoing review and redesign as necessary to ensure that they meet or exceed the requirements of Section 508 Amendments of the Rehabilitation Act of 1998.
Many of our web sites currently meet the Section 508 accessibility standards. Furthermore, the Pacific Southwest Region continues to work on making all web sites accessible. Thank you for your patience through this redesign process. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement, please contact the Web Manager of this page.
Most of the documents on our web server are in HTML format. This format is generally accessible to persons using assistive technology devices, such as screen reading software. We also have a number of documents as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Persons using screen reading devices generally cannot directly read documents in PDF format that were prepared in pre- Acrobat 5.0 software.
Adobe Systems, Inc. provides an online conversion service through their Access web pages which will translate PDF files to web pages (HTML documents) or ASCII text.
You may download software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Make Accessible plug-in, from the Adobe web site through this link.