Alternative 4
R.70W.
R.69W.
This multiple-use alternative would feature natural processes and
restoration of impaired native ecosystems.
R.67W.
R.66W.
R.65W.
R.64W.
R.63W.
It would demonstrate
the role that national grasslands and forests have in sustaining rare
animal and plant communities within the Northern Great Plains.
T.55N.
DRAFT
T.48N.
T.54N.
Environmental
Impact Statement
T.47N.
Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest
Thunder Basin National Grassland
T.46N.
Alternative 5 on reverse
1999
PLEASE NOTE: Management areas are defined as parts
of the grasslands that are managed for a particular
emphasis.
T.45N.
R.73W.
R.72W.
R.71W.
R.70W.
R.69W.
R.68W.
Each management area has a prescription that
consists of a theme, desired conditions, and standards and
guidelines that apply to it. The management area prescriptions are grouped into eight major categories, based on a
continuum from least evidence of disturbance (Category
1) to most (Category 8).
T.44N.
The management areas on this map are further explained
in Chapter 3 of the Revised Land and Resource Management Plan. The differences between alternatives may be
better understood if the reader compares alternative maps
while reviewing the accompanying Environmental Impact
Statement.
The management area boundaries on this map were
T.43N.
computer generated. These lines and their locations
are only approximate at this scale.
T.42N.
N
W
E
S
5
T.41N.
0
5
10
Miles
1 : 253,440
1/4 inch = 1 mile
T.40N.
T.39N.
Management Areas
1.2
T.38N.
Acres
- Recommended for Wilderness
59279
1.31- Backcountry Recreation Non-motorized
4200
2.1
- Special Interest Areas
6588
2.2
- Research Natural Areas
3521
3.63- Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
112510
3.65- Rangelands with Diverse Natural-Appearing Landscapes
17921
4.32- Dispersed Recreation: High Use
1929
T.37N.
5.12- General Forest and Rangelands: Range Vegetation Emphasis
6.1
- Rangeland with Broad Resource Emphasis
8.4
- Mineral Production and Development
89631
212842
44065
Upton
Osage
Spring Creek
Vicinity Map
Cellar
Rosecrans
Fairview
Clareton
Management Areas
1.2
Legend
Administrative Boundaries
Desired Vegetation Condition
- Recommended For Wilderness
1.31 - Backcountry Recreation Non-motorized
Township & Range Lines
Vegetation
Matrix
. Key
Vegetation
Acres
Acres
Composition
|-Residual Vegetation Structure-|
. seral
mid to late
High
2.1
- Special Interest Areas
2.2
- Research Natural Areas
State Lands
3.63 - Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
Concurrent Management
3.64 - Special Plant and Wildlife Habitat
3.65 - Rangelands with Diverse Natural-Appearing Landscapes
4.32 - Dispersed Recreation: High Use
- National River System: Recreation Rivers Recommended
Broken
Bill
Hills
Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
Concurrent management areas exist when two compatible management
areas exist for the same piece of ground.
area will show up in the colored legend.
4.4
Highlight
The dominant management
The other management area or
areas will showup as cross-hatching over the colored legend.
80%
b
92344
85%
c
2870
90%
d
294725
e
21430
Variable
f
111563
Variable
- Mineral Production and Development
Low
90%
Variable
Vegetation Composition is the mix of plant species found on a site. Composition
Desired Vegetation Condition
is used to describe a seral (successional) stage in relation to the site's potential
to grow vegetation.
For example, a buffalo grass/blue grama grass composition
is an early seral stage compared to the site's potential to grow western
by Geographic Area
wheatgrass/ green needlegrass (mid to late seral stage).
Vegetation structure is the height and density of the herbaceous (grass, sedge
Concurrent Management Areas
Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat (3.63)
Acres
5
0
5
10
16546
15
Miles
density of standing herbaceous vegetation following the grazing season.
Areas labeled "e" are lands not suitable for domestic livestock production.
1/8 inch = 1 mile
8.4
Moderate
and forb) community. Residual vegetation structure is the height and
Legend
- Rangeland with Broad Resource Emphasis
29553
Desired Vegetation condition is described in terms of composition and structure.
5.12 - General Forest and Rangelands: Range Vegetation Emphasis
6.1
a
1 : 506,880
Areas labeled "f" are ferret reintroduction areas.