Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

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Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy September 2005 federal laws and regulations on national forest and adjacent land. These officers carry firearms and can make arrests. (3) Special Agents are the investigative arm of the agency and are responsible for the staff work related to the arrest and prosecution of criminals and for the development of reports that address claims made for and against the government. The Campgrounds Program encompasses the care and maintenance of the national forest's 122 campgrounds. The largest and most highly used facilities are operated by concessionaires. Maintenance includes two major categories: routine maintenance and deferred maintenance. Routine maintenance work includes cleaning and repairing restrooms, picnic tables, fire rings and grills, signs, renting portable toilets, pumping vault toilets, removing graffiti from facilities and natural features, testing and maintaining water systems, posting kiosks with current information, and picking up and hauling trash. Deferred maintenance includes major repair and/or replacement of constructed features such as kiosks, water systems, toilets, picnic tables, grills, and fire rings due to lack of routine maintenance. Despite the developed site infrastructure provided by the national forest, many visitors like to congregate in undeveloped areas, such as road turnouts or along creeks which have few to no facilities. Concentrated Use Area (CUA)-based activities include hunting, fishing, wildlife watching, scenery viewing, picnicking, camping, snowplay, and waterplay. Facilities in these areas are limited to portable toilets (often seasonally placed), trash cans, signs and kiosks. These facilities require cleaning, pumping, graffiti removal, and repair of vandalism. Increased patrols are necessary due to the concentrated visitor use, which often results in impacts such as litter, soil compaction, and erosion. Scenic All American Road Highway 1 and paragliders, Big Sur Place Page 26
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy Wilderness is managed to maintain and improve the wilderness resource and its open space value; and monitoring wilderness conditions such as visitor use, campsite and trail conditions. Attention focuses on the social, ecological and managerial conditions of the wilderness. To address social conditions, attention focuses on party size, stay limits, campsite carrying capacity, and encounter levels. To address ecological conditions, attention focuses on wildland fire, air quality, and invasive species. To address managerial conditions, attention focuses on structures, and outfitters and guides. Many types of recreation special-use authorizations, such as recreation residences, organization camps, outfitters and guides, recreation events, motorcycle enduros, and other activities provide a varied recreation opportunity to the public. The national forest provides balanced, environmentally sustainable recreation opportunities to meet the needs of a growing, urban, culturally diverse population. Community outreach efforts lead to an involved citizen population that is representative of the communities the Forest Service serves. Adaptive management measures are applied to all high-use recreation areas and developed sites that have conflicts among users and/or with sensitive resources. Dispersed camping will continue outside of restricted use areas; keeping vehicles within fifty feet of classified roads (as identified on the forest map) (see also: REC 1 - Recreation Opportunity; REC 2 - Sustainable Use and Environmental Design; and REC 3 - Recreation Participation). Recreation special-uses (e.g., concession campgrounds, organization camps, recreation events, and outfitter-guides) are part of an important program that will be emphasized to address growing demand. Complete recreation residence permits consistency review and continuation determination process by 2008. Investment emphasis focuses on Forest Service recreation facilities and related infrastructure. Opportunities are developed through partnerships and special funding to reduce the backlog of facility maintenance and to expand capacity. Develop recreation infrastructure to guide use away from resource and social conflict. This is accomplished through creation of new sites and the decommissioning of existing sites. Reduce the facilities maintenance backlog by two sites per year (see also: Fac 1 - Facilities Maintenance Backlog). Recreational target shooting is restricted to designated areas with an emphasis on ranges under special-use authorizations. Hunting will continue as regulated by state law. Scenic resources emphasize conserving or restoring aesthetic, recreation, and open space values, especially those of high-valued scenery, such as scenic byways and backdrops for local communities (see also: REC 1 - Recreation Opportunity; LM 1 - Landscape Aesthetics; LM 2 - Landscape Restoration; and LM 3 - Landscape Character). Page 27
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