Revised Special Areas Section for Fishlake and Dixie NF
Here are the revised Special Areas section for the Dixie and Fishlake NFs. We anticipate many more changes leading up to our draft Revised Forest Plans in January 06.
We still need to do some work on the boundaries for special areas. We hope you can help us think through this question over the next several months.
We’d love your feedback on these documents. We have done some significant work on our definition of backcountry. Please let us know what you think….
Changes to Dixie Special Areas Section
Description of Changes from Version 1.0 to 2.0
• Edited for clarity
• The use of mountain bikes and snowmobiles has been clarified.
• Column on ORV’s for Eligible WSR has been added.
• Language on backcountries has been changes to depict intentions and uses. This is also reflected in a suitability summary table. Unlisted uses (e.g. grazing) that are consistent with desired conditions (or forest-wide suitability) are suited.
• The table about botanical and geological areas has been expanded to better describe suited uses (I have a glitch in my computer – mountain biking and fire use boxes should say OK, snowmobiling boxes should read NO). Both Red Canyon North and Red Canyon South are changed to geological/botanical areas.
• Additional comments that were missed in the first pass through from the Powell RD were incorporated into this version.
Additional Anticipated Changes
• Adjustment to boundaries for individual areas based on MDP comments, field trips, discussions with cooperating agencies, internal workshops, changing desired conditions (e.g. backcountry).
Comment by Kenton Call — September 30, 2005 @ 6:13 pm• Future meetings internally and externally on ROS, SMS, Special Areas, Geographic Area management and direction, and additional comments we may receive in the near future may also change our direction.
Description of Changes to Fishlake Special Areas Section
Changes to this section include:
Comment by Kenton Call — September 30, 2005 @ 6:14 pm• Text edited for clarity
• Boundaries of the Proposed Delano recommended wilderness have been changed resulting in an increase of 6,000 acres.
• The use of mountain bikes and snowmobiles in the recommended wilderness areas has been clarified.
• A column was added to the table of Eligible Wild and Scenic rivers to show outstanding remarkable values.
• Language describing backcountry areas was changed to depict intentions and uses. This is also reflected in the suitability summary table. Unlisted uses consistent with desired conditions are suited.
• The white mountain backcountry areas was expanded to the west adding about 7,000 acres.
• The table about botanical and geologic areas was expanded to better describe suited uses.
• Suited uses for Research natural Areas was further described from FSM direction.