Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

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Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy SD 1 - Wilderness September 2005 Protect and manage wilderness to improve the capability to sustain a desired range of benefits and values, and so that changes in ecosystems are primarily a consequence of natural forces. Protect and manage areas recommended for wilderness designation to maintain their wilderness values: • Within the life of the forest plan manage all wilderness areas to standard, including areas designated as new wildernessess when they are established. • Upon designation of new wilderness areas and wilderness additions, implement legislative direction as specified by law. • Ensure that historic, current and future issues and management needs, including adequate biophysical and social monitoring, are addressed in all wilderness planning. Identify all use that results in adverse impacts and develop measures to alleviate those impacts to an appropriate level using current processes, such as limits of acceptable change. • Prescribed fire may be used in wilderness to retain wilderness values and meet wilderness fire management objectives or where community protection needs exist due to development on private lands near the wilderness. • Emphasize Minimum Impact Suppression Tactics in all wilderness wildand fire responses (see Appendix B in Part 3). All wildland fire suppression strategies (control, contain and confine) may be utilized in the 10 wilderness areas and in any subsequent wilderness additions within the Los Padres National Forest. • Wilderness resource advisors will be assigned as necessary to all wilderness fires. • Due to the large size and remote locations of wilderness areas on the Los Padres National Forest, helispots may be maintained for non-emergency T&E species recovery efforts. • Implement "minimum tool" requirements as necessary to accomplish management activities. A minimum tool is defined as "a tool or method that should be used to complete the project that results in the least impact to the wilderness values or physical resource." • When new wilderness is recommended, include legislative wording that identifies "where a wilderness area is adjacent to or is in close proximity to inhabited areas, the Secretary may take appropriate measures to control or prevent wildland fire through federal, state, and/or local agencies and jurisdictions." Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals, objective 3. Page 124
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy SD 2 - Wild and Scenic Rivers Manage designated wild and scenic river segments to perpetuate their free-flowing condition and designated classifications, and to protect and enhance their outstandingly remarkable values and water quality. • For those designated wild and scenic rivers, a Comprehensive River Management Plan and boundary declaration will be prepared and implemented as specified in the designation language. Manage recommended wild and scenic river segments to perpetuate their free-flowing condition and proposed classifications, and to protect and enhance their outstandingly remarkable values and water quality through the suitability study period, and until designated or released from consideration: • For those recommended wild and scenic river segments, interim protection measures will be applied to the bed, bank, and one-quarter mile on either side of the ordinary high-water mark. SD 3 - Research Natural Areas Pro tect and manage research natural areas to maintain unmodified conditions and natural processes. Identify a sufficient range of opportunities to meet research needs. Compatible uses and management activities are allowed: • Submit Establishment Reports for designated research natural areas to the Regional Forester. Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals, objective 3. SD 4 - Special Interest Areas Protect and manage special interest areas (SIAs) for the values and features for which they are esta blished. Uses and management activities, including access, that complement or are subordinate to the values and features are allowed: • Update current management plans, implementation schedules and monitoring protocols for existing designated SIAs. Prepare management plans, implementation schedules and monitoring protocols for newly designated SIAs and for existing SIAs without this documentation. Page 125
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