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National Landscape Conservation SystemNational Landscape Conservation SystemTheThe
Conservation, Protection, and RestorationConservation, Protection, and Restoration
Rattlesnake Arches, McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area
Conservation …
What does it mean to you?
Definition:
Con-ser-va-tion – n., v.
1.the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
2. official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management.
3. the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion.
- Random House unabridged dictionary, © 2006
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
Anton Chekov, Uncle Vanya , 1897
Objective:Objective:
After returning to their home office, After returning to their home office, students will be able to discuss and students will be able to discuss and explain the differences between explain the differences between NLCS designations to a non-BLM NLCS designations to a non-BLM audience in accordance with Federal audience in accordance with Federal law and Bureau policy. law and Bureau policy.
Route:Route:
• What, why, and how?What, why, and how?
• DesignationsDesignations
• The FutureThe Future
Why should we care about the NLCS?Why should we care about the NLCS?
The mission of the NLCS is to conserve, protect and restore
nationally significant landscapes recognized for their outstanding cultural, ecological and scientific
values.
Why should we care about the NLCS?Why should we care about the NLCS?
BMPs, Director’s Priority, Career Opportunities, Current legislative action…
The NLCS is BLM’s opportunity to showcase its most spectacular areas and highlight its achievement in progressive and cooperative land management.
In competencies!In competencies!5.8 Use appropriate work practices for managing special designations and/or special management areas, including, but not limited to, wilderness study areas (WSAs), wild and scenic rivers, cave and karst systems, national scenic and historic trails, and watchable wildlife areas.
5.8.1 Facilitate land use plan decisions for Congressional designations. (a, b)
5.8.2 Facilitate land use plan decisions and determinations for administrative designations consistent with goals and objectives for the planning area. (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)5.8.3 Make recommendations for river management. (a, b, c, d, e)5.8.4 Make effective planning and management recommendations for cave and karst management. (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)5.8.5 Develop state and national policy for visitor use and management of special designations including wilderness study areas (WSAs), wild and scenic rivers, cave and karst systems, and national scenic and historic trails.
Let’s take a walk through the NLCS!
Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
… … after we take a quiz!!!after we take a quiz!!!
What do you know
about the NLCS?
The individual before the whole…The individual before the whole…
King Range National Conservation Area - 1970
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument -
1996
led to the National Landscape led to the National Landscape Conservation System!Conservation System!
“to conserve, protect, and restore these nationally significant landscapes that have outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations."
McInnis Canyons NCA
The National Landscape The National Landscape Conservation SystemConservation System
• WO-170
• Elena Daly, Director
• Vacant, Deputy Director
• Mala Malhotra, Project
Manager
McInnis Canyons NCA
National Conservation AreaNational Conservation Area
• Designated by Congress
• conservation, use, enjoyment, and enhancement of certain natural, recreational, paleontological, and other resources, including fish and wildlife habitat.
•13 NCAs, ~14 million acres
Las Cienegas NCA
National Conservation AreaNational Conservation Area
• Jeff Jarvis, Division Chief
• Rob Hellie, Senior Natural Resource Specialist
Red Rock Canyon NCA
Monuments and NCAs Group
BLM’s BLM’s National National
Conservation Conservation AreasAreas
National MonumentNational Monument
• Sec. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments
Canyons of the Ancient NM
• Designated by the President under the Antiquities Act of 1906 or by Congress (one time)
National MonumentNational Monument
Monuments and NCAs Group
• to protect objects of “historic or scientific interest”
•15 NLCS NMs, 4.8 million acres
National MonumentsNational MonumentsAgency No.
NMsNames
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
15 Agua Fria, Grand Canyon-Parashant, Ironwood Forest, Sonoran Desert, Vermillion Cliffs, California Coastal, Carrizo Plain, Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, Canyons of the Ancients, Craters of the Moon, Pompeys Pillar, Upper Missouri River, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, Cascade-Siskiyou, Grand Staircase-Escalante
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) 3 Becharof, Yukon Flats, Hanford Reach, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine
National Park Service (NPS)
90 Monuments List: <http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/sites/Antiquities/MonumentsList.htm>.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
1 Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine
Forest Service 4 Admiralty Island, Giant Sequoia, Misty Fjords, Old Kasaan
Cooperative management
NPS and BLM 2 Grand Canyon-Parashant, Craters of the Moon
FWS and NOAA 1 Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine
BLM National BLM National MonumentsMonuments
15 NMs, 4.8 15 NMs, 4.8 million acresmillion acres
Wilderness AreaWilderness Area
• Designated by Congress
• “outstanding opportunities for solitude and a primitive and unconfined type of recreation”
• “where man is a visitor who does not remain”
• NLCS – 183 Wilderness areas encompassing 7.7 million acres (~ Maryland)
Paria-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness
Wilderness AreaWilderness Area
• Wilderness Act of 1964
• FLPMA, Section 603
• BLM Handbooks
• H-8560 - Management of Designated Wilderness Areas
• H-1601-1 - Land Use Planning Handbook
Pollock Canyon, Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
Wilderness AreaWilderness Area
Dave Harmon, Manager
• Peter Mali, Wilderness Specialist
• Chris Barnes, BLM Rep, Carhart NWTC
•Training (Carhart):
• National Stewardship• Regional Stewardship• Unit Workshops
•Training (VPI)• Wilderness Stewardship• Free to BLM’ers until May
Wilderness, Rivers, and Trails Group
Mee Canyon, Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
Wilderness Study AreaWilderness Study Area
Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (BLM-MT)
• designated by BLM as having Wilderness characteristics
• managed to preserve its Wilderness character until Congress acts on it
• NLCS – 604 WSAs totaling ~14 million acres (just smaller than W.Va)
Wilderness Study AreaWilderness Study Area
Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (BLM-MT)
• H-8550-1 - Interim Mgmt Policy for Lands Under Wilderness Review (IMP)
• Training (Carhart)
• Interim Mgmt Policy
BLM BLM Wilderness Wilderness Areas and Areas and
WSAsWSAs
National Scenic and Historic TrailsNational Scenic and Historic Trails
• designated by Congress under the National Trails System Act
• NST – extended trail that provides enjoyment of scenic, historical, natural, and cultural resources
• NHT – extended trail that follows (as closely as possible) the original trail or routes of travel with national historic significance
• NLCS – 4,264 miles Continental Divide NST
National Historic and Scenic TrailsNational Historic and Scenic Trails
• Deb Salt,
NHST Lead
• H-8351 -
WSRs, Policy
and Program
Direction
Continental Divide NST
Wild and Scenic RiversWild and Scenic Rivers
• WSR Act of 1968
•Designated by Congress or the Secretary of Interior/Ag. (on behalf of a state)
• a river or section of river designated to protect outstanding scenic, recreational, and other values and to preserve the river or river section in its free-flowing condition.
• NLCS – 38 WSRs, 2,052 miles
Merced Wild and Scenic River
Wild and Scenic RiversWild and Scenic Rivers
• “wild” = acccesible by trail, essentially primitive
• “scenic” = accessible by road but largely undeveloped
• “recreational” = easily accessible by road or trail with some development
Merced Wild and Scenic River
Wild and Scenic RiversWild and Scenic Rivers
• Jason Robertson, WSR Lead
•BLM Manual 8351, Wild & Scenic Rivers Policy and Program Direction for Identification, Evaluation and Management
Merced Wild and Scenic River
BLM’s BLM’s Wild and Wild and Scenic Scenic RiversRivers
Other NLCS Special DesignationsOther NLCS Special Designations
• Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (OR) – 428,000 acres
• Headwaters Forest Reserve (CA) – 7,400 acres
• White Mountains National Recreation Area (AK) – 998,000 acres
• Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (OR) – 100 acres
Other NLCS Other NLCS Special Special
DesignationsDesignations
So just how So just how big is the big is the NLCS?NLCS?
NLCS = 66,808 sq. mi.
Florida =65,755 sq. mi.
The NLCS and you!The NLCS and you!
• Discuss what NLCS units your office manages
• What attracts visitors to this area? Why is it unique?
• Planning status? (RMP, RAMP, other, none)
• Primary management challenges and opportunities
• Opportunities to develop partnerships, interpretation, environmental education
• Select one unit to discuss with the class
Current Legal StatusCurrent Legal Status
H.R. 2116 Section 3(a):
… In order to conserve, protect, and restore nationally significant landscapes that have outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations, there is established in the Bureau of Land Management the National Landscape Conservation System.
• April 24, 2007 – H.R. 2116 introduced
• June 7, 2007 – subcommittee meetings held
• Identical bill introduced in the Senate (S. 1139)
• March, 2008 – out of committee (?)
Managing for ExcellenceManaging for Excellence
NLCS Reorganization
• Division of the National Landscape Conservation System (Jeff Jarvis, Division Chief)
• Division of Education, Interpretation, and Partnerships (Mary Tisdale, Division Chief)
- Partnerships: Helene Aarons
- Interpretation: Amy Galperin
NLCS and the “Purple Book”NLCS and the “Purple Book”
• Obj 2: support sustainable economic growth; help diversify and stabilize local communities
•Obj 6: enhance and expand interp, info, and EE
• Obj 7: collaborative partnerships and volunteers
• Obj 1: enhanced recreation experiences and quality of life
Director Caswell’s Priorities for BLMDirector Caswell’s Priorities for BLM
“… and the fourth is NLCS. There's legislation in play right now, and I'm going to be quite vocal about my support for NLCS lands within the bureau, and I'm hoping we can get that legislation passed. I think it's very critical long term to the bureau and managing the public's resources.”
(interview with People, Land, and Water, 9/27/07)
Rerun!Rerun!
• What, why, and how?What, why, and how?
• DesignationsDesignations
• The FutureThe Future
Life is good…
… so is the NLCS!