Appendix D BLM NLCS ACEC SRMA Part2 ACEC 6

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Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
in the Draft DRECP and EIR/EIS. This document is not a substitute for or early version of the official Draft DRECP and EIR/EIS.
Superior-Cronese DWMA
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Mojave Monkeyflower
Pisgah Expansion
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Ord-Rodman DWMA
Rodman Mountains Cultural Area
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Northen Lucerne Wildlife Linkage
Bendire's Thrasher
Upper Johnson Valley Yucca Rings
Granite Mountain Corridor
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US Forest Service
National Park Service
Bureau of Reclamation
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Military
Other Federal
US Fish and Wildlife Service
State
County/State/Regional
Reservations and Rancherias
Private/Other
Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)
ACEC Layers
Roads
Proposed Wildlife Allocation
Wilderness
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DRECP Boundary
Interstate
US Hwy
Existing ACEC
BLM Field Office Boundary
CA Hwy
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Ord-Rodman DWMA
Pinto Mountain Description/Location: The boundaries of this unit correspond to the general boundaries identified by the Desert Tortoise (Mojave Population) Recovery Plan (Recovery Plan) and consist of 183 square miles. It is surrounded on three side by Joshua Tree National Park. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation: Established in WEMO, March 2006. The West Mojave Plan would serve as the ACEC management plan so that a future ACEC plan would not be required. Relevance and Importance Criteria This area provides high density Desert tortoise habitat and encompassed designated desert tortoise critical habitat. This area provides critical tortoise habitat linkage. Relevant wildlife resource values. The ACEC contains Category I Desert Tortoise Habitat ‐ habitat capable of sustaining viable tortoise populations and the highest value critical habitat. Overarching Goals: Tortoise DWMAs would be managed for tortoise conservation and recovery until which time the tortoise may be delisted as per criteria given in the Recovery Plan. Manage area in accordance with the Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan. Protect biological values , including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. To protect desert tortoise and significant natural resources including special status plant species, animal species and natural communities. Manage area in accordance with the Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan. Protect biological values , including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. Alternatives: No Action: No Action – this existing DWMA would continue to be managed as it currently is. All Action Alternatives: This DWMA would be designated as an ACEC. There is a tremendous amount of overlapping designations within this conservation area. In order to aid BLM in the tracking of conservation lands, the BLM plans to remove dual designations. All wilderness areas, and site specific ACECs that are located within this conservation area will be removed from this particular designation, but will keep their other designation. Acres: 117,232 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions List by alternative if they vary Special status species: Resource Program Soil, water, air Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Desert tortoise Public lands administered by the BLM within Tortoise DWMAs would be designated as ACECs All BLM‐administered public lands within Tortoise DWMAs would be managed as BLM Category I tortoise habitat. A line distance sampling program (or other scientifically credible method, if distance sampling proves ineffective) would be implemented in the Pinto Mountain DWMA special status species) Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources.
Cultural Resources
Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Objective: Provide dispersed opportunities for enjoyment of the ACEC qualities Action: Restricted vehicle camping to within 100ft of BLM‐designated OHV trails. There is a 1% cap of new ground disturbing activities that are allowed within this area. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Rights of Way Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers Objective: Linear Right of Ways that cannot be aligned to avoid the ACEC will be allowed. Site Right of Ways should be consistent with or not impinge upon the purpose of the ACEC. Not available for renewable energy development Open mineral entry w/ stipulations Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Barstow Important Tribal Lands
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Pinto Mountains DWMA
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Rodman Mountains Cultural Area Description/Location – South of Interstate 40 and almost completely within the Rodman Mountain Wilderness Area. It is approximately 23 miles east‐southeast of Barstow. A portion of the ACEC is within the Rodman Wilderness. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– CDCA amendment #1, 1988; WEMO Amendment D.1.20 Relevance and Importance Criteria: Important cultural and wildlife values. Rock art sites within this area have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an Archaeological District. The petroglyphs are significant to the religious and spiritual concerns of Native Americans. This area is also included in the Ord‐Rodman tortoise DWMA because it includes limited Desert tortoise habitat. Most of this area is within the Rodman Mountains Wilderness. Overarching Goals: Preserve and protect important cultural resources. Alternatives – No Action – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. All Action Alternatives: This Unit of the ACEC almost completely overlaps the existing Ord‐Rodman DWMA. To resolve this dual designation, all action alternatives will remove this unit from Ord‐Rodman. 101,355 acres Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Special Status Species: Desert Tortoise Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources.
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Limited Motorized vehicle. Refer to the Stoddard/Johnson Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Restricted vehicle camping to within 100ft of designated open roads. Competitive speed events prohibited. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Rights of Way Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Closed to renewable energy development. Open mineral entry w/ stipulations Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing No ACEC plan was written however this area falls under the management prescriptions Notes applicable to Wildlife Management Areas and Wilderness Areas. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Ord-Rodman DWMA
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CA Hwy
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Soggy Dry Lake Creosote Rings Description/Location – Located in section 17 of township 4 North, Range 3 East, in San Bernardino County. Access is from State Highway 247 which travels south from Barstow. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ Plan 47/1982 Relevance and Importance Criteria: This area was designated to protect an Unusual Plant Assemblage. The largest know creosote rings on public lands administered by the federal government are situated within the ACEC. The uniqueness, high research value, and susceptibility to damage from intensive recreation uses are the principle reasons for its designation. Overarching Goals: To provide high level protection to the creosote rings while providing compatible recreational opportunities. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres: 186 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Proposed actions with this ACEC will comply with all Federal and State statutory and Soil, water, air regulatory requirements under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and will maintain and enhance soil productivity characteristics. Objective: Protect sensitive creosote rings. Action: Change land classification from “unclassified” to “limited” Fence a representative group of creosote rings covering about six acres. Prohibit harvest of vegetation Maintain restrictions on vehicle use Post interpretive signs Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources.
Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Closed to vehicle use. Closed to renewable energy development. No mining claims. No locatable. Leasable, or saleable minerals. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Located within a proposed ephemeral sheep lease. Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Soggy Dry Lake Creosote Rings
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Soggy Dry Lake Creosote Rings
Upper Johnson Valley Yucca Rings Description/Location – Located along the southwestern slope of the Fry Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. Access is provided from State Highway 247 by a series of dirt roads. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ Plan 46/1982 Relevance and Importance Criteria: Designated to provide protection of an Unusual Plant Assemblage. The yucca rings present within the ACEC are the largest and oldest Mojave Yucca rings known, with an estimated age up to 2,250 years. The uniqueness, high research value, and susceptibility to damage from intensive recreational uses are the principle reasons for designation. Overarching Goals: To increase protection of sensitive biological resources while continuing use of lands for compatible recreational opportunities. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres: 320 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Proposed actions with this ACEC will comply with all Federal and State statutory and Soil, water, air regulatory requirements under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and will maintain and enhance soil productivity characteristics. Objective: Protect sensitive yucca rings. Action: Fence a specific group of yucca rings covering approximately 7 acres. Prohibit harvest of vegetation. Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources.
Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Multiple use Class I Designated as an OHV Open Area. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Southern California Edison Company. Rights of Way Closed to renewable energy development. No mining claims. Renewable Energy Located within a proposed ephemeral sheep lease.
Livestock grazing Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Bigelow Cholla Garden Expansion
(covered in Bigelow Cholla, see below)
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Existing ACECs (within DRECP boundary)
Bigelow Cholla
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Chemehuevi
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Dead Mountains
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Mopah Spring
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Whipple Mountains
Bigelow Cholla RNA Description/Location of ACEC – Located on both sides of interstate 40 in the Sacramento Mountains adjacent to land owned by the University of California as part of its Natural Reserve System. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– CDCA amendment #6, 1989‐90 Relevance and Importance Criteria: This area was designated due to relevant and important vegetation values. It contains the northern‐most population and the densest‐known concentration of Bigelow cholla in the CDCA. The area is designated as a Research Natural Area and will be managed primarily for research purposes in coordination with the University of California. The area is proposed for expansion to capture more of this unique vegetation resource. Additionally the area is important for desert tortoise. Overarching Goals: To preserve area for the protection and study of the Bigelow cholla. Alternatives – No Action – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. All Action Alternatives: This ACEC would be expanded 5,775 acres. . 80 acres (existing), 5,775 acres added. Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air UPA: Sacramento‐Stepladder Mountains Teddy‐Bear Cholla Assemblage
Vegetation (incl. special Northern limit of the range of Bigelow cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) status species) Prescription: Develop a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of California to address cooperative research activities. Objective: Maintain or Improve condition of vegetation Action: Remove invasive plants, rehabilitate/revegetated disturbed areas. Action: Protect populations of special status plants and UPAs Desert Tortoise. Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes.
Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to the public for appropriate uses. Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Restore all undesignated roads or trails. Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Right of way avoidance zone Unavailable for Renewable Energy Development
Open mineral entry w/ stipulations N/A Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness overlaps the part of the ACEC south of Interstate 40.
The Memorandum of Understanding with the University of California will serve as the ACEC management plan. Recreation Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Overlapping land designations Notes Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Chemehuevi Description/Location – The north edge of the unit intersects CA Highway 95 11.75 miles SSE from Needles and I‐40, near the Clipper Mountains Wilderness Area and Freeway I‐40. There are 3 expansions areas proposed for this ACEC Mgmt. Plan/Date of Original Designation– ACEC Plan No. 99, 2002 Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant wildlife resource values. The ACEC contains Category I Desert Tortoise Habitat ‐ habitat capable of sustaining viable tortoise populations and the highest value critical habitat. The expansion areas have the following Relevance and Importance Criteria making them worthy of inclusion into the ACEC. West Expansion: The area provides habitat and supports important populations of BLM sensitive plants, including white‐margined beardtongue (Penstemon albomarginatus). The area provided habitat and supports regionally important populations of desert bighorn sheep, desert tortoise, and burrowing owls. Northeast‐East Expansions: The area provides habitat and supports regionally important populations of desert bighorn sheep, desert tortoise, and prairie falcons. These expansion areas are also identified as critical to maintaining wildlife connectivity within the desert region. Overarching Goals: To protect desert tortoise and significant natural resources including special status plant species, animal species and natural communities. Manage area in accordance with the Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan. Protect biological values , including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. Alternatives – No Action‐‐the ACEC would not be expanded and management focus would be for the benefit of the desert tortoise. A 1% disturbance cap on new (as of 2002) ground disturbance) ALL Action Alternatives: Name changes from Chemehuevi Desert Wildlife Management Area to Chemehuevi ACEC. The ACEC will be expanded as identified on the following map. A 1% disturbance cap on total ground disturbance (new and existing, permitted and unauthorized) within the ACEC. There is a tremendous amount of overlapping designations within this conservation area. In order to aid BLM in the tracking of conservation lands, the BLM plans to remove dual designations. All wilderness areas, and site specific ACECs that are located within this conservation area will be removed from this particular designation, but will keep their other designation. Acres: 874,843, Expansion areas add 66,665 acres. Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Chemehuevi Wash is one of the largest desert wash systems in the US portion of the Soil, water, air Sonoran Desert. Prescriptions: ‐ Limit cumulative total surface disturbance on lands managed by federal agencies within ACEC to 1% of the federal portion of the ACEC ‐ Compensation for disturbance of public lands within ACECs is required at a 5:1 Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
ratio UPAs: Crucifixion Thorn Assemblage Sacramento / Stepladder Teddy Bear Cholla Northernmost Sonoran Desert Thorn Woodland in California full of old‐growth trees Emory’s Crucifixion Thorn (Castela emoryi) Cryptantha clokeyi (Ditaxis claryana) (Juncus nodosus) Mentzelia tricuspis (Opuntia wigginsii) (Psorothamnus fremontii var. attenuatus) Prescription : Create fenced areas for palo verde regeneration so that burros don’t munch all the treelets until such time as the tree canopies are substantially above the reach of the burros. ‐ Permits for live vegetation harvest may be issues after EA review only within salvage areas where surface disturbance has been authorized Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) – BLM California Sensitive Species
Elf Owl – possibly irregular nester Arizona Bell’s Vireo – nesting in Sonoran Desert wash woodland Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) – BLM California Sensitive Species Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma crissale) – BLM California Sensitive Species Loggerhead Shrike – CDFG Species of Concern Lucy Pyrrhuloxia Yuma Myotis (Myotis yumanensis) BLM California Sensitive Species (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) American Badger (Taxidea taxus) Desert tortoise Prescriptions: ‐ Remove ravens that are known predators to tortoises where there is evidence of predation in or within 1 mile of desert tortoise habitat ‐ Main paved roadways within and adjacent to the DWMA will be fenced, signed and patrolled ‐
Also: Prairie Falcon, LeConte’s Thrasher, Pyrrhuloxia, Prescription: Keep the Chemehuevi burro herd outside the Chemehuevi ACEC. Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Wild Horse and Burro Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with the adopted VRM Classes.
Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to the public for appropriate uses. Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Refer to the National Trails Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) and the Ward Valley Extensive Recreation Management Area (ERMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers
Objective: Linear Right of Ways that cannot be aligned to avoid the ACEC will be allowed. Site Right of Ways should be consistent with or not impinge upon the purpose of the ACEC. Closed to renewable energy development. Open mineral entry w/ stipulations Piute and Turtle Mountain Wilderness. Livestock grazing Overlapping land designations Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Dead Mountains Description/Location of ACEC – Located between 8 and 20 miles north‐northeast of Needles, California along the Colorado River, adjacent to the Nevada and Arizona state lines. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ ACEC Plan 34/1989 Relevance and Importance Criteria: This area was designated to provide protection of Native American values. It has been identified by both the Mojave and Chemehuevi tribes to be of religious and cultural significance. It contains areas of both sacred and ritual importance that are associated with traditional cosmogony, delineate religious events, embody religious figures, and define burial places. These important values are subject to the provisions of the American Indian Religious Act. Overarching Goals: To ensure that the Native American cultural resources are provided protection in accordance with FLPMA and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres: 21,853 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Arizona pholistoma (Pholistoma auritum var. arizonicum) [CNPS 2].
Vegetation (incl. special The flora of this area is just beginning to become known. status species) BLM CA Sensitive Species: Ovis canadensis nelsoni
Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources
Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: Ensure that the Native American concerns are fully considered in all BLM management decisions Action: Apprise and solicit the comments of indigenous tribal representatives regarding all undertakings within the ACEC Objective: Protect and monitor cultural resources Action: Increase ranger patrol Assess nature and extent of visitation, unauthorized use, and condition trends. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes.
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Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Rights of Way NA Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐energy Leasables Validity exam and PO required for mining. NA Dead Mountains Wilderness Livestock grazing Overlapping Land Designations Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Mopah Spring Description/Location of ACEC – Located in the Mopah Range of the Turtle Mountains between Vidal Valley and Chemehuevi Valley. The spring is approximately 8 miles west of Hwy. 95, 12 miles north of Vidal Junction. It includes Mopah Peaks and Mopah Spring. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ Plan 75/1982 Relevance and Importance Criteria: An incremental loss of cultural resources has prompted the designation of this area. Relevant cultural resources include portable petroglyphs, prehistoric habitation sites, trails, trail shrines and markers, and the Mopah Peak which is of Native American concern. The outstanding scenic quality at Mopah Spring and the fact that this spring is a crucial watering place for wildlife, including Big Horn Sheep, add to the cultural values by being partly responsible for the use of the spring by prehistoric populations. Overarching Goals: To protect the vulnerable and non‐renewable resources within the ACEC. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres:1,290 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Objective: provide a steady supply of uncontaminated water for wildlife Action: Develop and protect spring Unusual Plant Assemblage: Desert Fan Palm Oasis Woodland Rare Species: Coues’s Cassia (Senna covesii) [CNPS 2.2] Big horn Sheep habitat: BLM sensitive species. Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: Protect and preserve the integrity of the archaeological sites. Action: Establish a foot path to the ACEC by barring vehicle access at the entrance to the canyon Increase surveillance and patrol Nominate to the National Register of Historic Places Continue existing mineral withdrawal Designate and post the area for no shooting Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and Paleontology Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
educational use of paleontological resources as needed.
Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes.
Mopah Peaks are designated as VRM class I Since wilderness designation in 1994, only hiking access.
Wilderness appropriate Recreation NA NA No registered mining claims A portion of the ACEC in the southeast quarter of section 28 of T. 3N, R. 21E was withdrawn from agricultural and mineral entry. PO required for mining. NA Found within Turtle Mountain NNL/ACEC/Wilderness Area
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Whipple Mountains Description/Location of ACEC – Located 13 miles southeast of Lake Havasu City, Arizona and 13 miles north of Parker, Arizona in southeastern San Bernardino County. Accessible solely through Bowman’s Wash Road, along the inner eastern boundary. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ ACEC #53/1989 Relevance and Importance Criteria: The Whipple Mountains are important in Chemehuevi and Mohave traditional values and beliefs – contains areas of sacred and ritual importance. The Whipple Mountains are source locations of ceremonial materials, rock art, dance platforms, vision quest and power stations and cairn markers. Overarching Goals: Protect cultural resources and cultural values. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this ACEC would continue to be managed as it has been. Acres: 3,431 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Establish an erosion control plan with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to minimize sedimentation moving from public lands into Copper Basin Reservoir. Soil, water, air UPA: Foothill paloverde saguaro woodlandRare Plants:
Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) [CNPS 2.2] Narrow‐leaved psorothamnus (Psorothamnus fremontii var. attenuatus) [CNPS 2.3
Desert germander (Teucrium glandulosum) [CNPS 2.3]Note: This region is the core of the saguaro range in California – likely the only area where the species remains in California – no current information is available for populations historically known from Imperial County. Objective: Protect saguaros. Actions: Patrol saguaro sites (BLM locations are now mapped) Document excavation and vandalism of saguaros Enhance saguaro germination sites under foothill paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla) Experiment with seeding sites suitable for saguaro germination Objective: Protect foothill paloverde woodland from burro predation Actions: Enhance regeneration of foothill paloverde by fencing exclosures to prevent burro browse. Vegetation (incl. special status species) Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Remove burros to keep the population within established population targets.
Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) – DFG State Listed
Fish and Wildlife (incl. Lucy’s Warbler (Oreothlypis luciae) – BLM Species of Concern (likely – found in Whipple special status species) Wash in Whipple Mts. Wilderness) Cultural Resources Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes
Objectives: Protect cultural resources Action: Consider approved travel to serve valid existing rights Manage for wilderness appropriate recreation opportunities.
Allocation: Prohibit collection of firewood Closed to renewable energy development Validity determination and PO required for mining
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Santos Manuel Description/Location: Connects Cleghorn Lake on the north to Pinto Mountains on the south approximately 10 miles east of Twnetynine Palms. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation: New Relevance and Importance Criteria: Recently an important archaeological site has been discovered in the area. The site is similar to the Topok Maze site near Needles CA and is an example of an extremely rare site type. This site meets criteria for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places. The James Ramos, Tribal Chairman from San Manuel requested of the Barstow Field Manager that this area be listed as a cultural ACEC to protect the site and cultural landscape. This area is in close proximity to the Pinto Basin which is within Joshua Tree National Park and is of great importance archaeologically to the prehistory of the area. Historically this area has many historic mining districts within the area such as the Dale and New Dale mining districts. Overarching Goals: Protect culturally significant area identified by San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. Alternatives: Under the No Action – this conservation area would not exist, as it does not exist currently. Alts 1 and 6 – an area of 56,682 acres would be set aside to protect cultural resources. Some variance lands overlap this area. Alts 2, 3, 4, and 5‐‐ an area of 56,682 would be set aside to protect cultural values and resources. This would be a right of way exclusion zone. Acres: 56,682 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Vegetation (incl. special status species) Desert Tortoise Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources.
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Closed to renewable energy development, except in Alt 1 and 6 on variance lands.
Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Rights of Way Renewable Energy Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Bristol Mountains Description/Location – south of Hwy 40 between the military lands to the south and the Mojave National Preserve to the north. It spans from Cady Mountain Wilderness on the west to the Trilobite and Clipper Mountain Wildernesses on the east. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– new proposal Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant biological resources including wildlife and plant assemblages. The area is high value for desert tortoise habitat and connectivity between the Ord‐Rodman and Chemehuevi ACECs. Additionally, the area is critically important for bighorn sheep, Mojave fringed toed lizards, burrowing owl, and several bat species. Additionally, numerous rare and sensitive plants such as Emory’s crucifixion thorn and white margined penstemon, have major populations in the valley, making the area regionally significant. This area has critical wildlife movement corridors that maintain connections for regional metapopulations. Overarching Goals: Protect biological values, including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. Alternatives – No Action – this conservation area would not exist, as it does not exist currently. Alts 1 and 6‐‐ this area would be identified as an ACEC with 230,560 acres protected. For Alt 1, there would be a 1% disturbance cap (existing and new). For Alt 6, there would be a 1% disturbance cap (existing and new). Alt 2 and 4–this area would be identified as an ACEC with 240,842 acres protected, there would be a 1% disturbance cap (existing and new). Alt 3—this area would be identified as an ACEC with 240,842 acres protected, there would be a 0.25 % disturbance cap (existing and new). Alt 5—this area would be identified as an ACEC with 212,633 acres protected, there would be a 0.25 % disturbance cap (existing and new). Acres – see alternative discussion. Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Objective: Retain existing flow regime and volume
Soil, water, air Action: Secure Federal Reserve Water Right Objective: Maintain or Improve condition of vegetation
Action: Remove invasive plants, rehabilitate/revegetated disturbed areas. Action: Protect populations of special status plants Special Status Species: Nelson Desert Bighorn Sheep
Action: Evaluate water sources and determine if artificial water sources should be Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
developed. Special Status Species: Desert Tortoise Action: Maintain viable populations and connections between other ACECs and critical habitat. Special Status Species: Mojave fringed toed lizard Action: Maintain viable populations; ensure connectivity between occupied habitat Protect habitat and source of sand. Special Status Species: Burrowing Owl (in Bristol Expansion Area) Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources. Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes
Paleontology Visual Resources Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to Trails and Travel the public for appropriate uses. Management Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Refer to the National Trails Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) and the Lava Hills Extensive Recreation Management Area (ERMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers
New proposals will need to be analyzed on a case‐by‐case basis and cumulatively, to assess whether they can be accommodated within the ACEC and its management goals. Wildlife connectivity may not be impaired. Closed to renewable energy development. Recreation Rights of Way Renewable Energy Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Open mineral entry w/ stipulations Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables NA Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Pisgah Expansion
Pisgah
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Chemehuevi DWMA
Bristol Expansion
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Amboy Crater
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4
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Cadiz Corridor
Cadiz Valley
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Bristol Expansion
Castle Mountain Description/Location – Surrounded by the Mojave National Preserve to the north, west and south, and along the California –Nevada border to the east. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– new proposal Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant biological resources including wildlife and plant assemblages. The area is critical for bighorn sheep containing the Castle Mountain deme and providing habitat connectivity between Castle Peaks to the north and Piute Range to the south. The area supports an excellent representative population of Joshua Tee Woodland and has a unique plant assemblage of desert grassland. Additionally, the area has regionally significant populations of scrub lotus (Acmispon argyraeus var. multicaulis) [CNPS 1b.3] and rosy two‐toned beardtongue (Penstemon bicolor ssp. roseus) [CNPS 1B.1]. and important habitat for prairie falcons, gray vireo, and Bendire’s thrasher – all special status bird species. Overarching Goals: Protect biological values, including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. Alternatives – No Action‐‐ this ACEC would not be created. ALL Action Alternatives: This ACEC is established. A 1% disturbance cap on new ground disturbance (new and existing, permitted and unauthorized) with the ACEC. Acres: 28,827 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Objective: Retain existing flow regime and volume
Soil, water, air Action: Secure Federal Reserve Water Right UPA: Lanfair Valley Desert Grassland Objective: Maintain or Improve condition of vegetation Action: Remove invasive plants, rehabilitate/revegetated disturbed areas. Action: Protect populations of special status plants Other rare plant species: Nevada onion (Allium nevadense) [CNPS 2.3] Purple‐nerve cymopterus (Cymopterus multinervatus) [CNPS 2.2] Nine‐awned pappus grass (Enneapogon desvauxii) (CNPS 2.2] Parish’s club‐cholla (Grusonia parishii) [CNPS 2.2] Plains flax (Linum puberulum) [CNPS 2.3] Red four o’clock (Mirabilis coccinea) [CNPS 2.3] Lobed ground‐cherry (Physalis lobata) [CNPS 2.3] Abert’s Sanvitalia (Sanvitalia abertii) [CNPS 2.2] Special Status Species: Nelson Desert Bighorn Sheep
Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action: Evaluate water sources and determine if artificial water sources should be developed. Cultural Resources Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Paleontology Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes.
Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to the public for appropriate uses. Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Refer to the Castles Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers
Objective: Linear Right of Ways that cannot be aligned to avoid the ACEC will be allowed. Site Right of Ways should be consistent with or not impinge upon the purpose of the ACEC. Closed to renewable energy development. Open mineral entry w/ stipulations NA Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Nevada
Castle Mountain
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Castle Mountain
Patton’s Iron Mountain Division Camp Description/Location – Located in southeastern San Bernardino County approx. 55 miles east of Twentynine Palms, California and 55 miles west of Parker, Arizona and the Colorado River. It is a triangular shaped area bounded on the south by the San Bernardino‐Riverside County line, on the northwest by a power line road and on the northeast by the Colorado River Aqueduct owned by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation‐ Plan 52/1985 Relevance and Importance Criteria: This area was designated in recognition of the cultural values of Iron Mountain Division Camp as an historic military camp. Camp Iron Mountain is one of the most significant and best preserved remnants of the WWII historical period. It has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. Overarching Goals: To protect and interpret the historic resources and value of the site. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres: 3,606 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: Stabilize, protect, and maintain the historic resources in the condition of “arrested decay” Action: Extend vehicle enclosure fence to the entire length of the camp Withdraw site from mining location and mineral entry Provide additional information requested to complete nomination in the National Register of Historic Places Re‐grade and maintain existing berm on the northwest slope of the camp Increase patrol Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Paleontology Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM class.
Visual Resources Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to Trails and Travel the public for appropriate uses. Management Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities, and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Procedures will be completed to acquire an easement from the Metropolitan Water District across the transmission line corridor. No Renewable Energy Development Procedures will be completed to withdraw area from all forms of appropriation under public land laws and mining location and mineral entry under mining laws. NA Recreation Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐energy Leaseables Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Piute-Fenner infill
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Piute-Fenner DWMA Dead Mountains
Bigelow Cholla
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66
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Chemehuevi DWMA
Cadiz Corridor
Cadiz Valley
Mopah Spring
Whipple Mountains
Turtle Mountains
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Amboy Crater NNL Description/Location of ACEC – Located in San Bernardino County 2.5 miles west of the community of Amboy near the intersection of Amboy Road and Historic Route 66. Amboy Crater is a National Natural Landmark ACEC. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– ACEC Plan No. 87, 1989 Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant natural resource values. Amboy crater cinder cone and lava flow. Overarching Goals: Protect significant cultural, and natural resources, found within the ACEC while providing for compatible recreation and interpretive opportunities. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Acres: 640 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Prescription: Restore north face of cinder cone
Soil, water, air No special status plants are known from the NNL/ACEC.
Vegetation (incl. special status species) No special status plants are known from the NNL/ACEC.
Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Cultural Resources Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Manage visual resources consistent with the adopted VRM Class.
Paleontology Visual Resources Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to Trails and Travel the public for appropriate uses. Management Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name.  All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Refer to the National Trails Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use. Recreation Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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NA Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Marble Mountain Fossil Bed Description/Location of ACEC – Northeast of Cadiz and within the southern portion of the Marble Mountains Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– ACEC Plan No. 48, 1980 Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant geological/paleontological resources. Overarching Goals: Protect paleontological resource values, including the Marble Mountain Trilobite Site, Latham Shale and any others within the ACEC. Alternatives – All Alternatives – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. 44,160 acres Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Vegetation (incl. special status species) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources
Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources including the identification of non‐
commercial hobby beds for public collecting Manage visual resources consistent with adopted VRM Classes. Paleontology Visual Resources Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to Trails and Travel the public for appropriate uses. Management Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails. Refer to the National Trails Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities, and to ensure public health and safety; Action: Recreation Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
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Mojave Fringed–toed Lizard Description/Location – This ACEC consists of 10 separate units, 8 of which are in the Barstow FO, and one each in Ridgecrest and Needles. The unit in Needles Field office is in San Bernardino County, bounded by the Sheephole Mountains on the northeast and east, California Highway 62 on the south, the Pinto Mountains on the southwest, and Dale Dry Lake on the northwest (part of this unit crosses into Barstow Field Office). The unit in Ridgecrest FO is south of Edwards Airforce Base approximately 5 miles. The remaining units are in the Barstow Field office and are located in the vicinity of the Mojave River They start east of Barstow and run east northeast south of Interstate 15 and end just before Afton Canyon ACEC. Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant Biological and geological values and processes. These units have active and functioning ecological process of sand transport by flooding followed by sand sorting into smaller particle sizes and deposition onto occupied habitat by wind must be maintained where these processes are still present. Sand dune ecosystems, including their source sand and sand corridors, are necessary for the long‐term survivorship of aeolian sand specialists, such as, fringe‐toed lizards. These areas protect this limited habitat type. Protected land includes areas for source sand, wind and sand corridors, as well as the sand dune habitat and its associated shade plants. The conservation of the Mojave fringe‐toed lizard requires protection of the dune, hummock,and sand sheet habitat occupied by this species as well as of the sand sources and sand transport. The Mojave Fringe‐toed Lizard (Uma scoparia) is endemic to southern California and a small area of western Arizona, where it is restricted to aeolian sand habitats in the desert. These units represent regionally important habitat. Mojave Fringe‐toed Lizards are restricted to areas with fine, aeolian sand including both large and small dunes, margins of dry lakebeds and washes, and isolated pockets against hillsides. Overarching Goals: Conservation of blow sand and Dune Habitat of Mojave Fringe‐toed Lizard. Alternatives – All Alternatives – This ACEC remains and continues to be managed as it has been. Acreage=24,695 Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary 1 % or less surface disturbance of dune surface annually; no disturbance of non‐
Soil, water, air dune surfaces The following rare species are present in the ACEC:
Borrego Milk‐Vetch (Astragalus lentiginosus var. borreganus) (CNPS 4.3) Ribbed Cryptantha (Cryptantha costata) (CNPS 4.3) Harwood’s Eriastrum (Eriastrum harwoodii) (CNPS 1B.2) – a BLM Sensitive Species Vegetation (incl. special status species) Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Invasive weedy plants such as Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii) may degrade dune habitat quality for the Mojave Fringe‐toed Lizard. Mojave Fringe‐toed Lizard (Uma scoparia) (BLM Sensitive Species)
Fish and Wildlife (incl. special Information about endemic invertebrate dune species appears not to be available status species) at present. Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Document paleontological resources within the ACEC through a paleontological sensitivity records inventory. Closed to motorized travel Objective: provide dispersed opportunities focuses on enjoyment of the ACEC attributes Allocation: Dispersed camping Objective: Acquire inholdings from willing sellers
Exclusion zone for all ROW Closed to renewable energy development. Closed to all new mineral entry No surface occupancy No new allotments. Partial intersection with the Pinto Mountain DWMA. Also, the eastern portion of the ACEC is inside the Sheephole Valley Wilderness. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Land Tenure Rights of Way Renewable Energy Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Overlapping Jurisdiction
Shadow Valley Expansion
Jawbone/Butterbredt Western Rand Mountains
Desert Tortoise Natural Area
Middle Knob
Coolgardie Mesa
Calico Early Man Site
395
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Fremont-Kramer DWMA
40
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18
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138
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330
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10
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79
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215
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38
30
10
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Other Federal
38
215
US Forest Service
Pisgah
40
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Chemehuevi DWMA
Bristol Expansion
66
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Amboy Crater
Cadiz Corridor
18 18 Soggy Dry Lake Creosote Rings
189
15
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10
Pisgah Expansion
Bighorn West
Granite Mountain Corridor
Carbonate Plant Expansion
Old Woman Springs Wildlife Linkage
173
215
210
Mesquite Hills/Crucero
Bendire's Thrasher
18
Big Rock Creek Wash
14
Afton Canyon
Ord-Rodman DWMA
Northen Lucerne Wildlife Linkage
Brisbane Monkey Flower Expansion
138
Manix
Mojave Monkeyflower
Mojave Fishhook Cactus
15
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Parish's Phacelia
Harper Dry Lake Rainbow Basin/Owl Canyon
58 58
Cronese Basin
Superior-Cronese DWMA
Barstow Woolly Sunflower
58
West Paradise
Black Mountain
ACEC Layers
38
62
Cadiz Valley
Bighorn East
38
Pipes Canyon
62 Big Morongo Canyon
Whitewater Canyon 62
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243
111
Roads
Wilderness
Interstate
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DRECP Boundary
US Hwy
Existing ACEC
CA Hwy
Barstow Important Tribal Lands
62
Joshua Tree to Palen Corridor
Chuckwalla DWMA Extension
Palen Ford
FIGURE X
Pisgah RNA Description/Location – This ACEC is situations along Interstate 40 south of the Cady Mountains, west of Mojave National Preserve and east of Ord‐Rodman DWMA The expansion area has the following Relevance and Importance Criteria making it worthy of inclusion into the ACEC. The area provides habitat and supports important populations of several BLM sensitive plants. The area provided habitat and supports regionally important populations of desert tortoise between tortoise populations. Relevance and Importance Criteria: Relevant biological resources including wildlife and plant assemblages. The area is critical for bighorn sheep, golden eagles, desert tortoise, prairie falcons, Mojave fringed toed lizards and several other species. Additionally, numerous rare and sensitive plants have major populations here, including white‐margined penstemon, making the area regionally significant. Stabilized sand dunes are an important geomorphic feature of the area. The area provides critical links for wildlife populations to the north and south of this linkage area. Overarching Goals: Protect biological values, including habitat quality, populations of sensitive species, and landscape connectivity while providing for compatible public uses. Alternatives –No Action – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. Alt 1 and 4 – 29,748 acres would added to this conservation area and a disturbance cap of 1% (existing and new) would be established, the area would be designated as an ACEC. Alt 2‐‐ 29,746 acres would be added to this conservation area and a disturbance cap of 1% (existing and new) would be established. The area would be designated as an ACEC. Alt 3and 6 – 36,731 acres would added to this conservation area a disturbance cap of 0.25% (existing and new) would be established, , the area would be designated as an . Alt 5 – 26,541 amount of acres would added to this conservation area a disturbance cap of 0.25% (existing and new) would be established, the area would be designated as an ACEC . Acres: See descriptions above Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Objective: Maintain or Improve condition of vegetation Vegetation (incl. special status Action: Remove invasive plants, rehabilitate/revegetate disturbed areas. species) Action: Protect populations of special status plants Objective: Protect populations of the white‐margined beardtongue within the ACEC. Action: Designate routes within the ACEC as open or closed and restore or block Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
routes to be closed. Fence known populations of white‐margined beardtongue.
Objective: Protection of white‐margined beardtongue on public land. Action: Acquire private parcels where white‐margined beardtongue occurs within the Pisgah ACEC. White‐margined penstemon (Penstemon albomarginatus) Objective: Maintain habitat for species of concern. Ensure animal movement Fish and Wildlife (incl. special within and across the ACEC. status species) Objective: Protect occupied habitat of the Mohave Fringe‐towed Lizards. Action: Prohibit vehicles on conserved habitat of the Mohave Fringe‐toed Lizard. Deseret tortoise‐ Manage the area to be consistent with the desert tortoise recovery plan Golden Eagle Burrowing owl Bighorn sheep American badger Bendires’ thrasher Mojave fringe‐toed lizard Cultural Resources Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources. Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC is consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase). Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 3: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Limited Motorized vehicle. Action: All legal open routes will be signed, all routes identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored. Restore all undesignated OHV routes. Objective: Protect the flora within the ACEC. Action: Change the CDCA Multiple Use from Class M to class L. Limited use, designated routes only. Objective: provide dispersed opportunities focuses on enjoyment of the ACEC attributes Allocation: Dispersed camping Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers
Objective: Acquire all inholdings from willing sellers
Objective: Linear Right of Ways that cannot be aligned to avoid the ACEC will be allowed. Site Right of Ways should be consistent with or not impinge upon the purpose of the ACEC. What about the railroad ROW and accompanying service roads? Closed to renewable development. Paleontology Visual Resources Trails and Travel Management Recreation Land Tenure Rights of Way Renewable Energy Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Close to all new mineral entry No surface occupancy Objective: Protect the lava and lava tubes. Action: Restrict mining and other permitted used from impacting the lava and lava tubes. No new allotments. Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐Energy Leasables Livestock grazing Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Pisgah Expansion
Bristol Expansion
40
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40
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Ord-Rodman DWMA
66
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2
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4
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Military
US Forest Service
Other Federal
Private/Other
State
ACEC Layers
Proposed ACEC
Alts 1 & 6
Proposed ACEC
Alts 2, 3, & 4
Proposed ACEC
Alt 5
Existing ACEC
Wilderness
DRECP Boundary
Roads
Interstate
US Hwy
CA Hwy
Pisgah & Expansion
Piute‐Fenner Description/Location – Located within the Piute Valley Tortoise Management Unit. It is contiguous with lands managed for viable Desert Tortoise populations to the west in Mojave National Preserve and to the east on public lands managed by the Las Vegas BLM Field Office. Mgmt. Plan/Date of Designation– NEMO Plan Amendment 2002 Relevance and Importance Criteria: This area is a critical portion of the Piute Valley Tortoise Management area which provides examples of the best Desert Tortoise habitat remaining in the southern portion of the East Mojave Desert. This area provides critical tortoise habitat linkage between the Mojave National Preserve and the land managed by the BLM Las Vegas Field Office. Overarching Goals: Manage area in accordance with the Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan. Alternatives – No Action – this existing ACEC would continue to be managed as it currently is. All Action Alternatives: The portion of this area that overlaps with the Dead Mountain Wilderness would be removed from this ACEC. The portion of this ACEC that is identified as being part of the Patton Camps would be removed from this ACEC. These actions will remove dual designations; these areas will still remain protected under a single protective designation. An area within this ACEC had been originally excluded because it was deemed not tortoise habitat. This area contains a unique plant assemblage (ocotillo) and will be added to this ACEC. The disturbance cap for this ACEC will be 1% (existing and new). 36,975 acres Objectives/Allocations (allowable uses), management actions Resource Program List by alternative if they vary Soil, water, air Unusual Plant Assemblages: Vegetation (incl. special Piute Valley Smoke Tree Assemblage status species) Playa milk‐vetch (Astragalus allochrous var. playanus) [CNPS 2.2] Howe’s hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var. howei) [CNPS 1B.1] BLM Sensitive Species Emory’s crucifixion‐thorn (Castela emoryi) [CNPS 2.3] Spiny‐hair blazing star (Mentzelia tricuspis) [CNPS 2.1] Special Status Species: Desert Tortoise Species of Concern: Summer Tanager Cumulative new surface disturbance cannot surpass 1,300 acres within the ACEC boundary (limitation of 1% new disturbance). Proposed Change: Cumulative surface disturbance cannot surpass 1% within the ACEC boundary. (total disturbance) Fish and Wildlife (incl. special status species) Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Objective: General Management of Cultural Resources
Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Ensure that management of cultural resources within the ACEC are consistent with agency responsibilities provided in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Action Item 2: Ensure that federal actions that may affect historic properties within the ACEC are properly reviewed and considered consistent with the requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA. Action Item 3: Ensure confidentiality of information about sensitive cultural resources consistent with Section 304 of the NHPA and Section 9 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Objective: Establish Baseline Resource Information/Identify and Document Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Survey, identify and record new cultural resources within the ACEC boundaries. Action Item 2: Update records for existing cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 3: Integrate survey information into BLM cultural resources management systems (cultural GIS geodatabase) Objective: Evaluate and Nominate Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Utilizing the eligibility criteria of the National Register of Historic Places, complete an evaluation of all cultural resources in the ACEC for eligibility either as an individual historic property or determine whether there significant resources might comprise a district. Action Item 2: Complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for significant historic properties. Objective: Identify Threats to Cultural Resources Action Item 1: Develop baseline assessment of specific natural and man‐made threats to cultural resources in the ACEC (i.e., erosion, looting and vandalism, grazing, OHV). Objective: Monitoring/Protective Measures Action Item 1: Provide on‐going monitoring for cultural resources based on the threat assessment. Action Item 2: Identify, develop or incorporate standard protection measures and best management practices to address threats. Action Item 2: Where specific threats are identified, implement protection measures consistent with agency Section 106 responsibilities. Objective: Interpretation/Public Awareness Action Item 1: Facilitate research, scientific study, and general study of cultural resources within the ACEC. Action Item 2: Where appropriate and with consideration of site protection and confidentiality, develop and provide interpretation to the public about cultural resources, including signs, interpretive panels, web‐based information. Paleontology Objective: General Management and Protection of Paleontological Resources Action Item 1: Manage and protect fossil resources consistent with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Action Item 2: Develop plans for the inventory, monitoring, and scientific and educational use of paleontological resources as needed. Visual Resources Goal: Provide for the use of a designated system of roads and trails to ensure access to Trails and Travel the public for appropriate uses. Management Action:  All legal open roads and trails will be signed including road or trail number/name. All roads and trails identified as closed will be rehabilitated/restored.  Restore all undesignated roads or trails.  Provide routine maintenance of the designated roads and trails system including installation of routine signs, markers, culverts, ditches, water bars, barriers, gates, or cattle guards on/or adjacent to system roads and trails.  All DWMA lands bordering Interstate freeways and major highways shall be fenced. Portals need to be developed to accommodate route network. Refer to the National Trails Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) write‐up for detailed objectives, allocations, and management direction. Goal: Manage recreation consistent with established conservation goals, while providing a broad range of recreation opportunities, and to ensure public health and safety; Action:  Provide interpretive, directional, and regulatory signs and materials as necessary to provide public information and reduce impacts from recreational use.  Prohibit competitive special recreation events.  Allow stopping and parking within 25 feet, and camping within 100 feet of designated routes.  Manage recreational shooting consistent with state and local laws.  Issuance of Special Recreation Permits for day use or overnight use up to 14 consecutive nights; that impact no more than 3 staging area acres; and/or for recreational travel along roads and trails designated open in the land use or accompanying activity level plans. Recreation Rights of Way New proposals will need to be analyzed at on a case‐by‐case basis and cumulatively, to assess whether they can be accommodated within the ACEC and its management goals. Closed to renewable energy development Renewable Energy Please note this comparative evaluation provides an illustrative view into the data, information and type of analyses that will be presented
Open mineral entry w/ stipulations Locatable Minerals Mineral Materials Non‐energy Leaseables Livestock grazing

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