San Bernardino National Forest Land Management Plan - Part 2
San Bernardino National Forest Land Management Plan - Part 2
San Bernardino National Forest Land Management Plan - Part 2
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September 2005 <strong>Land</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> <strong>Part</strong> 2<br />
<strong>San</strong> <strong>Bernardino</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> Strategy<br />
Silverwood<br />
Theme: The Silverwood Place is a landscape consisting of unique desert-influenced and riparian<br />
ecosystems, from the Mojave River to Silverwood Lake to Deep Creek. Rapidly growing, high<br />
desert urban communities flank the lower reaches sending visitors in search of leisure<br />
opportunities at the Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area. Important habitat exists here in the<br />
north-facing hillsides for the bald eagle and spotted owl.<br />
Setting: The Silverwood Place is a land of unique<br />
desert-influenced ecosystems, extending from the<br />
intermittent Mojave River to the popular<br />
Silverwood Lake State Park over to the perennial<br />
Deep Creek watershed. Rising to the south of the<br />
desert communities of Victorville and Hesperia,<br />
the chaparral-covered mountains gradually climb<br />
in elevation to form rounded summits with<br />
patches of montane conifer and narrow canyons<br />
with critical riparian habitat. The diverse physical<br />
and biological resources found here are<br />
increasingly influenced by human activities. The<br />
primary access to Silverwood Place is California<br />
State Highway 138 (the Rim of the World Scenic<br />
Byway). The area is rich in heritage resources.<br />
The Deep Creek Grazing Allotment occurs here.<br />
This Place has a diverse landscape. The climate varies from a warm temperate with marine<br />
influence (Mediterranean) to transitional high desert (Mojave) to a vertically differentiated<br />
complex mountain climate. Annual precipitation is as low as four inches of rain in the desert to<br />
as high as 10 to 25 inches of rain and snow at higher locations. The land has steep mountains<br />
with rounded summits and narrow canyons. Elevations range from 3,000 feet to 6,500 feet. The<br />
Mojave River, Silverwood Lake and Deep Creek are the dominant watershed features. Some<br />
surface and<br />
groundwater<br />
extraction occurs<br />
on<br />
and off the national<br />
forest. Oil and gas<br />
development occurs<br />
to the north of the<br />
Place, and there<br />
may be potential for<br />
future exploration<br />
and development<br />
within this Place.<br />
Utility rights-ofway<br />
cross <strong>National</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> System<br />
lands.<br />
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