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• The information in this presentation is current
  as of 7/08. Updates may be needed.
• Local images and wilderness specific 10YWSC
  accomplishments, barriers, and solutions may be
  needed.
• Slides for adding regional strategy or emphasis
  and forest accomplishments appear near the end of
  this presentation.

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• This document is contained within Wilderness
  Awareness Toolbox on Wilderness.net. Since other
  related resources found in this toolbox may be of
  interest, you can visit this toolbox by visiting
  the following URL http//www.wilderness.net/index
  .cfm?fusetoolboxessecawareness. All toolboxes
  are products of the Arthur Carhart National
  Wilderness Training Center.

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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
_______National Forest Wilderness
Workshop ______, 200x
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Origins of the 10YWSC Chiefs Wilderness Advisory
Group
Regional Representative add name and location
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Origins of the 10YWSC Chiefs Wilderness Advisory
Group

• 2002 - 2003 WAG Task from the Chief
• What elements of wilderness stewardship are and
  are not getting done ?
• Why and why not ?
• How can we do a better job of wilderness
  stewardship ?

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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
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10YWSC Accountability Elements for
Wilderness
Meet 6 of 10 elements minimum stewardship level

• Fire Management
• Non-Native, Invasive Plants
• Air Quality Monitoring
• Wilderness Education
• Solitude/Primitive Recreation Standards
• Recreation Site Inventory
• Outfitter Guide Management
• Resource Protection Standards
• Information Management
• Baseline Workforce

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10-Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
National Wilderness Program Update 1. 10
Elements represent measurable stewardship
objectives 2. 10 years to achieve goals (2005
2014) 3. Applies to wilderness designated before
2004. 4. Score of 60 points for all elements
represents minimum stewardship level 5. Regions
have developed strategies 6. Forests may select
and emphasize elements to fit each unique area
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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge

• Each of the 10 Elements has
• Objective
• Definitions
• Incremental scoring (2 10 points)
• Counting Instructions
• Leveling review by units and regions
• Annual reporting through INFRA-Wild

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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge Goals
2005
2011
2012
2013
2004
2010
2006
2007
2008
2009
Improve at least 10 of wilderness areas each
year in order to achieve 100 to minimum
stewardship level by the 50th Anniversary of the
Wilderness Act in 2014.
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National Scoring Goal - 406 Wilderness Areas
Managed to Minimum Standard
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National Scoring (406 Wildernesses)
16.5 2007
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National Scoring (406 Wildernesses)
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Integrated Approach Needed
Wilderness encompasses a myriad of resources
that are integral to its whole, including
recreation, heritage, air, water, soil, wildlife,
fish, range, and fire. It will be essential
that our employees from these resource staffs
fully engage in the 10YWSC. - Chief Dale
Bosworth
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Integrated Approach Neededto Implement the 10YWSC

• Barriers
• Lack of awareness of wilderness as both a social
  and biophysical resource
• Misconceptions about primary purpose and BLI
  constraints limit integrated wilderness
  stewardship
• Inadequate coordination between resource areas
  for wilderness projects
• Solutions
• Information and training for all resource
  specialists
• Clarify primary purpose definition and budget
  advice
• Improve integration and coordination at all
  levels, especially during project planning phase

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Forest Service Management of Wilderness

• 10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge Update
• Resource integration needs
• NFRW should not fund all stewardship activities
  in wilderness.
• Examples
• Noxious Weed treatments - NFVW
• Wildland Fire Use planning - WFPR or WFHF
• Air Quality monitoring - NFVW or NFIM.

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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge

• RESOURCES for an Integrated approach
• - Partnerships
• - Information/Examples
• Toolboxes
• http//www.wilderness.net/toolboxes/
• Guidebook
• http//www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuseNWPSsec
  manageFS

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Suggestions for Achieving the Minimum
Stewardship Level for Wilderness

• Recognize that regardless of other priorities
  and constraints
• By law, wilderness stewardship is the
  responsibility of the FS and the 10YWSC is the
  national FS strategy.
• Select items from the 10YWSC that are important
  and achievable for your area
• Keep it simple do what you can do
• Take advantage of other priority work
  projects to integrate wilderness
• Fire, invasive species, air, fish and
• wildlife, etc.

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10-Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
National Wilderness Program Update Questions ???
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10-Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
The Elements

• Fire Management
• Non-Native, Invasive Plants
• Air Quality Monitoring
• Wilderness Education
• Solitude/Primitive Recreation Standards
• Recreation Site Inventory
• Outfitter Guide Management
• Resource Protection Standards
• Information Management
• Baseline Workforce

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Element 1 - Fire Management

• Forest fire plans consider a full range of
  responses in wilderness
• Includes Wildland Fire Use, Prescribed Fire
  Wildland Fire Suppression

Congress defined wilderness as undeveloped
landscapes that are preserved and protected in
their natural conditions with the least amount of
human influence or control and to allow fire to
play, as nearly as possible, its natural role in
wilderness.
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Element 2 - Invasive Plants

• Successfully treated for non-native, invasive
  plants

• The invasion of an alien species in the basin
  and plains may prove in the long run to be the
  most hazardous and expensive problem in the
  intermountain West.
• Geoffrey OGara Dan Whipple,
• Casper Star Tribune 9/10/03

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Element 3 - Air Quality Monitoring

• Air quality monitoring is conducted and baseline
  is established

"The Clean Air Act provided special protection
for our National Parks, Monuments, and most of
our Wilderness Areas. We would be remiss to not
use all the tools at our disposal to ensure that
they are preserved for future generations."
Ted Porwoll, Bridger Wilderness
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Element 4 - Wilderness Education Plan

• Education plan prepared and implemented

If future generations are to remember us with
gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave
them more than the miracles of technology. We
must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was
in the beginning, not just after we got through
it. - President Lyndon B. Johnson (Upon
signing of the Wilderness Act, 1964)
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Element 5 - Adequate Forest Plan Direction
Opportunities for Solitude or Primitive Recreation

• Opportunities for solitude or primitive or
  unconfined recreation are protected with
  adequate standards

If we knew a word for the dark spaces between
pebbles on the river bottom, if we had a name for
the nests of dried grass deposited by floods high
in riverside trees, if there were a word apiece
for the smell of pines in the sunshine and in the
shadows, we would walk a different trail.
-Kathleen Dean Moore, Riverwalking, Reflections
on Moving Water 
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Element 6 - Recreation Site Inventory

• Recreation Site Inventory
• is completed

• Monitoring campsites regularly helps track some
  of the physical impacts in wilderness such as
  deterioration and proliferation of campsites and
  helps determine strategies to offset those
  impacts.-Rod Fahl, Charles C. Deam Wilderness

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Element 7 - Outfitters Guides

• Outfitter/guides model Wilderness practices and
  incorporate appreciation for wilderness values to
  clients

The Outfitters Guides are a partner an
extension of the Forest Service to help educate
and allow the wilderness visitors the opportunity
to experience the wilderness and better
understand the special and wild values that exist
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Element 8 - Adequate Forest Plan Direction for
Wilderness Resource Protection

• Degradation of the wilderness resource prevented
  by full range of adequate standards

Management direction for each wilderness must be
stated in the forest plan as management area
prescriptions with associated standards and
guidelines. -- FS Manual 2322.03
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Element 9 - Information Management

• Wilderness information
• needs are met

Information management, by its very nature, must
be centralized but it must serve a
decentralized organization - Jim Sanders Forest
Supervisor, Superior NF  
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Element 10 - Baseline Workforce

• Baseline workforce is in place

While this element measures the workforce
primarily funded by NFRW dollars the key to
an adequate workforce is to have it integrated
funding means (weeds, wildlife, fish, wilderness,
trails, fire, etc.) and in the workforce
composition (employees, volunteers, partners, and
retirees). - Deb Mucklow, District Ranger
Spotted Bear RD, Flathead NF
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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship ChallengeRegion
__ Strategy
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10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge____
Forest Accomplishment
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