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 Heritage Resource Program emphasis includes identifying all activities that have the potential to adversely affect, or do not complement known significant cultural properties. Staff expect to develop and implement management plans to address adverse effects for approximately 25 percent of the affected sites within five years (Her 1 - Heritage Resource Protection). Program emphasis will also focus on interpretation opportunities and public participation programs, (designed to facilitate evaluation of sites for the National Register of Historic Places), (Her 2 - Public Involvement Program). Program priorities include survey and site record maintenance within the recent burned areas, and areas around communities with fuels problems (Her 3 - Forest-wide Heritage Inventory). Table 2.4.5 Resource Management Performance Indicators, SBNF Performance Indicators for Resource Management Current Level Estimated Forest Capability and Need Acres of Terrestrial Habitat Enhanced 206 2,800 Miles of Aquatic Habitat Enhanced 4 25 Acres of Noxious Weeds Treated 38 130 Acres of Vegetation Improved (also see Hazardous Fuels Reduction) 188 2,000 Acres of Watershed Improved 125 1,450 Acres of Land Ownership Adjusted 1,381 2,500 Number of Heritage Resources Managed to Standard 65 77 Public Use and Enjoyment Public use and enjoyment includes the management of visitor centers, public information, interpretive services and education, concessions and recreation special-uses, recreation fee collection, law enforcement, visitor safety and protection. The recreation budget has gradually dwindled to less than half of what it was in the late 1970s, while at the same time demand for recreation opportunities has increased. The budget decrease has created an extremely resourceful and lean organization; one that is too lean in some areas to fully leverage the tremendous energy and skills of the nearby communities to more effectively manage the Recreation Program. The public use and enjoyment function demonstrates what can be accomplished by creative, collaborative efforts to create a healthy recreation forest. National Forest staff is responsible for visitor education, volunteer programs, and forest protection. Forest Protection Officers work with volunteers to leverage their time. Professional volunteer organizations use fee money to hire managers for several large volunteer programs. It is important to note that without the fee program, all the programs listed here would suffer dramatically. The law enforcement budget is also less than it was ten years ago, while the amount and types of unlawful activities have increased. Effects of this lean organization have resulted in a lack of ability to respond to incidents, to assist other programs, and to provide safe access across the national forest. Page 30
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 San Bernardino National Forest Strategy Campgrounds and Developed Sites There are nine picnic areas, 25 trailheads, and 46 campgrounds with the capacity to accommodate approximately 4,350 campers on the San Bernardino National Forest. Arrowhead North Shore Campground—dead tree removal Maintenance is planned in two major categories: routine and deferred. 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 small projects that do not qualify as capital improvement projects, such as the replacement of a toilet that is past its useful life. Deferred maintenance is an unusual category, it is essentially facilities that have fallen into disrepair, because there has been no budget available to fix or replace the facility as it begins to deteriorate. Concentrated Use Areas (CUAs) A concentrated use area is an undeveloped area where maintenance and management time and money are invested, because recreation use leaves evident impacts, including litter, vandalism, and/or soil compaction. There are 83 of these areas identified on the San Bernardino National Forest. Activities at such sites include: hunting, fishing, wildlife watching, scenery viewing, picnicking, camping, snowplay, and waterplay. Facilities in these areas are limited to portable toilets, minimal parking, trashcans, signs and kiosks. These facilities require cleaning, pumping, graffiti removal, and repair of vandalism. Graffiti and trash removal is required along heavily used roads, as well as in CUAs. Heavy use near rivers and streams requires watershed restoration. Recreation The Recreation Program will make available a wide array of balanced, environmentally sustainable quality recreation opportunities to meet most of the needs of a growing, urban, culturally diverse population (REC 1 - Recreation Opportunity and REC 3 - Recreation Participation). Community outreach efforts lead to an involved citizen population that is representative of the communities the national forest serves. National Forest staff anticipate higher investment levels in order to provide maximum resource protection, including a greater Forest Service field presence, effective facility design, more intensive management, and improved monitoring and follow-up. National Forest staff expect to identify the existing areas of concentrated, developed, and dispersed recreation use in which unacceptable threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species, resource or social impacts are occurring. The national forest anticipates implementing adaptive management measures on approximately Page 31
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