Leslie Jones Wilderness Review

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Leslie JonesWilderness Review Recommendation
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Wilderness ActReview and Recommendation 16
U.S.C. 1132

• agencies inventory and review
• agencies give public notice and hold
  public hearings
• President makes recommendations to Congress

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Forest Service16 U.S.C. 1132

• Act made immediate designation of 9.1 million
  acres
• ten-year review of primitive areas
• All but one primitive area designated 5.4
  million acres

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Forest Service Roadless Area Review Evaluation

• Rare I 1971-1973
• ruled inadequate

• Rare II 1977-1979
• 62 million acres studied
• ruled inadequate
• legislation introduced

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Forest Service Current Process

• wilderness review requirements of National Forest
  Management Act (NFMA)
• Require review of all roadless areas during
  revision of forest plans
• Revisions to NMFA?

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BLMFLPMA 43 U.S.C. 1782

• Federal Land Policy Management Act enacted in
  1976
• 15-year process
• prevent impairment and unnecessary or undue
  degradation
• over 17 million acres of Wilderness
  Study Areas

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BLMApril 2003 Change in Policy
Settlement resulted in

• absolute prohibition of additional WSA
  designation - 150 million acres potentially
  affected
• repeal of guidance for inventory and
  recommendation procedures

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National Park Service Fish and Wildlife
Service16 U.S.C. 1132(c)

• Wilderness Act directed 10-year review of every
  roadless area of suitable size
• reviews substantially complete
• significant recommendations pending
• NPS--nearly 10 million acres
• FWS --3.4 million acres

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ALASKA

• 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
  Act (ANILCA)
• 56 million acres added to NWPS
• 5-year review/recommendations for additional
  acreage
• further progress stalled

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