Management Areas
Alternative 4
- Wilderness: Soldier Creek
1.2
- Recommended For Wilderness
Legend
Management Areas
Township & Range Lines
1.31 - Backcountry Recreation Non-motorized
Acres
1.1 - Wilderness: Soldier Creek
1.31a-Backcountry Recreation Non-motorized (Pine Ridge NRA)
This multiple-use alternative would feature natural processes and
restoration of impaired native ecosystems.
1.1
Administrative Boundaries
It would demonstrate
1.2 - Recommended For Wilderness
Badlands National Park
2.1
- Special Interest Areas
2.2
- Research Natural Areas
3.4
- National River System: Scenic Rivers Recommended
Concurrent Management
the role that national grasslands and forests have in sustaining rare
3.51 - Bighorn Sheep
animal and plant communities within the Northern Great Plains.
Research Natural Area
3.63 - Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
Scenic Rivers
Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
3.66 - Ecosystem Restoration
DRAFT
- National River System: Recreation Rivers Recommended
Environmental
6.1
areas exist for the same piece of ground.
The dominant management
area will show up in the colored legend.
The other management area
Impact Statement
8.6
- Administrative Sites
2.1 - Special Interest Areas
2818
2.2 - Research Natrual Areas
5272
3.4 - National RIver System: Scenic Rivers Recommended
1794
3.51- Bighorn Sheep
5949
109934
3.64- Special Pland and WIldlife Habitat
15584
3.66- Ecosystem Restoration
22406
1109
144
6.1 - Rangeland with Broad Resource Emphasis
Concurrent Management Areas
Acres
National River System: Scenic Rivers Recommended (3.4)
27002
670135
2606
8.5 - Nursery
36
Research Natural Areas (2.2)
- Nursery
6540
7.1 - Residential/Forest Intermix
- Residential/Forest Intermix
8.5
1.31a-Backcountry Recreeatikon Non-motorized (Pine Ridge NRA)
5.12- General Forest and Rangelands: Range Vegetation Emphasis
- Rangeland with Broad Resource Emphasis
Legend
7.1
1834
4.4 - National River System: Recreation Rivers Recommended
or areas will showup as cross-hatching over the colored legend.
5.12 - General Forest and Rangelands: Range Vegetation Emphasis
1.31- Backcountry Recreation Non-motorized
4.32- Dispersed Recreation: High Use
Concurrent management areas exist when two compatible management
4.32 - Dispersed Recreation: High Use
174975
3.63- Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat
3.64 - Special Plant and Wildlife Habitat
4.4
7814
17
8.6 - Administrative Sites
T.109N.
195
4056
Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Habitat (3.63)
11450
T.3N.
T.108N.
Nebraska National Forest and Associated Units
R.10E.
R.11E.
R.12E.
R.13E.
R.14E.
R.15E.
R.16E.
R.17E.
R.18E.
R.19E.
R.20E.
R.21E.
Buffalo Gap National Grassland
T.2N.
Fort Pierre National Grassland
T.1S.
T.1S.
Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest
T.107N.
Nebraska National Forest
Oglala National Grassland
T.2S.
Alternative 5 on reverse
T.1N.
T.2S.
1999
T.106N.
R.8E.
R.9E.
PLEASE NOTE: Management areas are defined as parts of the grasslands or
forests that are managed for a particular emphasis. Each management area
has a prescription that consists of a theme, desired conditions, and standards
and guidelines that apply to it.
T.3S.
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.3S.
The management areas on this map are further explained in Chapter 3 of the
Revised Land and Resource Management Plan. The differences between
R.31E.
alternatives may be better understood if the reader compares alternative maps
R.79W.
R.78W.
R.77W.
while reviewing the accompanying Environmental Impact Statement.
The management area boundaries on this map were computer generated.
T.4S.
These lines and their locations are only approximate at this scale.
N
Desired Vegetation Condition
E
W
S
0
5
10
15
Fort Pierre
by Geographic Area
T.5S.
5
Wall North
Miles
1/4 inch = 1 mile
1:253,440
Fall River Northeast
T.6S.
R.1E.
R.2E.
R.3E.
R.4E.
R.5E.
R.6E.
R.7E.
Wall Southeast
Wall Southwest
T.7S.
Desired Vegetation Condition
Vegetation
Vegetation
T.8S.
Acres
Acres
Matrix
Key
_.
Fall River West
Composition
._
mid to late
seral
a
3504
80%
b
42978
85%
c
3850
90%
d
854231
95%
e
50829
variable
f
100590
variable
T.9S.
Fall River Southeast
|--
Residual Vegetation Structure
High
Moderate
--|
Low
Variable
Desired Vegetation condition is described in terms of composition and structure.
Vegetation Composition is the mix of plant species found on a site.
in relation to the site's potential to grow vegetation.
T.10S.
Composition is used to describe a seral (successional) stage
For example, a buffalo grass/blue grama grass composition is an early
seral stage compared to the site's potential to grow western wheatgrass/ green needlegrass (mid to late seral stage).
Vegetation structure is the height and density of the herbaceous (grass, sedge or forb) community.
Residual
vegetation structure is the height and density of standing herbaceous vegetation following the grazing season.
Areas labeled "e" are lands not suitable for domestic livestock production.
T.11S.
Areas labeled "f" are ferret reintroduction areas.
McKelvie
Oglala
T.12S.
Desired Vegetation Condition
for the Nebraska Sandhills
Vegetation
.Key
Matrix
T.35N.
Vegetation
Composition
.
mid to late seral
a
80%
c
90%
d
95%
e
variable
|-Residual Vegetation Structure-|
High
Bessey
Moderate
Variable
T.34N.
Pine Ridge
5
0
5
1/8 inch = 1 mile
1:506,880
T.33N.
R.34W.
R.57W.
R.56W.
R.33W.
R.32W.
R.31W.
R.30W.
R.55W.
Vicinity Map
T.23N.
T.32N.
T.32N.
T.22N.
T.31N.
T.31N.
Ft. Pierre NG
T.21N.
Buffalo Gap
NG
Oglala NG
Samuel R. Mc
Kelvie NF
Nebraska NF
T.30N.
R.27W.
T.30N.
R.54W.
R.53W.
R.52W.
R.51W.
R.50W.
R.49W.
R.48W.
R.26W.
R.25W.
10
15
Miles