San Bernardino National Forest Land Management Plan - Part 2

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Land Management Plan Part 2 San Bernardino National Forest Strategy September 2005 The national forest business plan divides the Management & Administration category into General Management, Financial Management, General Administration, District Management, Planning, Public Affairs, and Information Technology programs. The forest plan addresses two of these programs: general and district management. General Management Vision, leadership, performance reporting, legislative contacts and priority setting are the tasks of the Forest Supervisor, Deputy Forest Supervisor, and their immediate support staff. From the Forest Supervisor's Office in San Bernardino, human resources, engineering, recreation, resources, public relations, information technology and other staff functions provide technical and administrative support to the Ranger Districts. District Management Administratively, the national forest is divided into three Ranger Districts: Mountaintop, Front Country, and San Jacinto, which are managed by three District Rangers who are responsible for managing all aspects of their assigned Ranger Districts. Operations, such as hazardous fuels reduction, archeological surveying, and special-use permitting, must go through the appropriate District Ranger prior to implementation. Finally, the Forest Supervisor and Deputy Forest Supervisor generate and communicate the vision, maintain government-to-government relationships with federally recognized tribes and notify non-federally recognized tribes, organizations and individuals, interact with external stakeholders, and prioritize forest-wide initiatives. Effective Management The national forest will enlist the support of local communities, partners, and volunteers to promote land stewardship by jointly developing and implementing a broad range of conservation activities (see the http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/business-plans). Tribal Relations Tribal relations touch virtually every aspect of Forest Service business. The objective of the Tribal Relations Program is to blend knowledge of American history, the ways tribal governments conduct business, and federal laws and legislation to shape national forest interaction into mutually benefiting working relationships with tribal governments. Emphasis will be placed on further developing relationships with tribal governments; working together to resolve issues; and to facilitate the continued traditional and cultural tribal use of the national forest. Partnerships The national forest will emphasize the use of partnerships (internally and externally) to enhance public services and ecosystem management on public lands; through integrating this emphasis on partnerships into the culture and function of the entire organization. Page 22
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 San Bernardino National Forest Strategy Resource Management Deep Creek Adopt-a-Trail volunteers The management of the San Bernardino National Forest's resources is divided into six programs: wildlife, fish, rare plants and invasive species; vegetation; soil, geology, water and air; land ownership and adjustment; specially designated areas (including wilderness); and heritage resources. It also includes managing the data of these resources. Wildlife, Fish and Plant Management The Wildlife, Fisheries and Plant Program manages habitat to help meet the needs of threatened, endangered, and sensitive species, along with other species such as black bear, mule deer and rainbow trout. Management includes prevention and eradication efforts to reduce the effects of invasive nonnative species within these habitats. The Wildlife, Fish and Plant Program will stabilize and improve the health and diversity of species habitat to achieve more natural conditions, including the use of fire in appropriate habitats (FH 3 - Restoration of Forest Health). The primary focus areas will be Critical Biological Zones, riparian and meadow habitats, carbonate and pebble plain habitats, forest health, bighorn sheep and maintaining landscape level habitat conditions for wildlife. The national forest will emphasize long-term habitat health from the threat posed by increasing human population and use (Lands 1 - Land Ownership Adjustment). Habitat loss and fragmentation (WL 2 - Management of Species of Concern) will be reduced through continued participation in regional efforts to create and preserve an interconnected open space network (Link 1 - Landscape Linkages). Declining trends in threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species populations are expected to be stabilized or reversed by maintaining or improving habitat capability (WL 1 - Threatened, Endangered, Candidate, Proposed, and Sensitive Species Management), removing invasive nonnative species (IS 1 - Invasive Species Prevention and Control) and by reducing conflicts with other activities such as recreation and resource or community development (REC 2 - Sustainable Use and Environmental Design). Program emphasis includes implementing the 10 priority recovery tasks Page 23
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