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 Inventory), analyze groundwater resources for sustainable development (WAT 1 - Watershed Function, and WAT 2 - Water Management), reduce environmental impacts from unstable or poorly drained roads, and to improve watershed restoration and mine reclamation (WAT 1 - Watershed Function). The Air Resources Program cooperates with state and local air pollution control authorities to gain approval for important air quality related national forest activities, such as prescribed fire, mining and recreation. This program also encourages and helps direct research studies on the impacts of air pollution on national forest resources. The program will emphasize prescribe fire smoke management techniques and work with control authorities to recognize the long-term trade offs between prescribed fire and wildland fire (Air 1 - Minimize Smoke and Dust, and Air 2 - Forest Air Emissions). The impacts of Ozone and Nitrogen on forest terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems will continue to be evaluated. Human health risks may be considered in approved activities, including prescribed fire, by meeting the smoke management requirements of State Title 17, federal and local air quality permitting authorities. Visibility monitoring will continue with the operation of the National Improve Network and landscape view cameras to monitor effects to wilderness values. The overall Physical Resources Program emphasis will be three fold: 1) support and help facilitate fuels and vegetation management efforts designed to maintain or restore watershed health and protect life and property (WAT 1 - Watershed Function); 2) repair soil and watershed degradation; and 3) provide burned area emergency rehabilitation treatments after wildland fires to reduce potential flood damage to downstream resources and communities (WAT 1 - Watershed Function). Land Ownership and Adjustment Thinning project near North Shore Arrowhead community The Lands Program handles land exchanges and purchases, rights-of-way acquisitions, and boundary and title management. Program emphasis will be to acquire lands that enhance public use, allow for continued public access, improve habitat linkage, or contain special resources, such as threatened or endangered species, or riparian habitat. Staff expect to implement one land adjustment and acquire Page 28
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 San Bernardino National Forest Strategy approximately 500 acres per year (Lands 1 - Strategic Acquisition). The program will also emphasize retaining and restoring clear title to National Forest System land by resolving encroachment from adjacent private lands. Staff expect to survey approximately three to five miles of boundary annually to identify encroachment problems (Lands 3 - Boundary Management) with high priority given to recently burned areas and areas with substantial tree mortality and fuel buildup. Once identified, early resolution will be given to these encroachments. Special Area Management The Special Area Management Program will emphasize managing for all existing, recommended, and new special designations to conserve those unique values and features for which the area is protected. Special designations include: wilderness, eligible wild and scenic rivers, research natural areas, and special interest areas. • SD 1 - Wilderness • SD 2 - Wild and Scenic Rivers • SD 3 - Research Natural Areas • SD 4 - Special Interest Areas Heritage Resources Pile burning, San Bernardino NF The Heritage Resource Program has the mission to protect significant heritage resources, to share their values with the American people, and to contribute relevant information and perspectives to natural resource management so that future generations will have an opportunity to discover the human story etched in the national forest. Page 29
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