Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

Land Management Plan Part 2
Los Padres National Forest Strategy
ME 1 - Minerals Management
September 2005
Administer minerals and energy resources to afford commodities for current and future
generations commensurate with the need to sustain the long-term health and biological diversity
of ecosystems:
• Limit withdrawals from mineral entry in order to maintain opportunities to access mineral
and energy resources.
• Assure long-term access and availability for leasing of oil and gas resources from
environmentally suitable lands, for regional,
statewide and national energy needs.
• Use terms and conditions of the operating plan to offset the effects of mining consistent with
conservation of habitats for threatened, endangered, or sensitive species.
• Eliminate unapproved and noncompliant minerals operations.
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Facilitate environmentally and culturally sensitive exploration, development, and production
of mineral and energy resources on National Forest System lands open to these activities or
on withdrawn lands consistent with valid existing rights, and integrate these activities with
the planning and management of other resources.
• Work with California Department of Fish and Game to prohibit suction dredging in areas
where needed to protect threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species.
• Work with the Bureau of Land Management to formalize the status of abandoned and idle
wells and ancillary facilities and the restoration of the land to natural conditions.
• For approved mining operations within occupied threatened, endangered, proposed,
candidate, and sensitive species habitat, riparian habitat, or other areas with species of
concern monitor mining operations as needed to ensure compliance with plans of operation.
ME 2 - Biomass Utilization
Seek opportunities to use by-products from forest thinning and mortality removal for production
of energy.
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