Forest Service, USDA § 294.40

Forest Idaho roadless area # WLR Primitive BCR GFRG SAHTS FPSA

Salmon ...... Napoleon Ridge ...... 501 ...... X X ...... X Salmon ...... Oreana ...... 516 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... Perreau Creek ...... 511 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... Phelan ...... 508 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... Sal Mountain ...... 513 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... Sheepeater ...... 520 ...... X X ...... X Salmon ...... South Deep Creek ...... 509 ...... X X ...... Salmon ...... South Panther ...... 504 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... Taylor Mountain ...... 902 ...... X ...... Salmon ...... West Big Hole ...... 943 ...... X X X ...... X Salmon ...... West Panther Creek ...... 504 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Black Pine ...... 003 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Blackhorse Creek ...... 039 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Boulder-White Clouds.... 920 X X X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Buttercup Mountain ...... 038 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Cache Peak ...... 007 ...... X X ...... Sawtooth ...... Cottonwood ...... 010 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Elk Ridge ...... 019 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Fifth Fork Rock Creek ... 023 ...... X ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Hanson Lakes...... 915 X X X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Huckleberry ...... 016 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Liberal Mountain...... 040 ...... X ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Lime Creek ...... 937 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Lone Cedar ...... 011 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Loon Creek ...... 908 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Mahogany Butte ...... 012 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Mount Harrison...... 006 ...... X X X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Pettit ...... 017 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Pioneer Mountains...... 921 X X X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Railroad Ridge ...... 922 ...... X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Smoky Mountains ...... 914 ...... X X ...... X Sawtooth ...... Sublett ...... 005 ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Third Fork Rock Creek .. 009 ...... X ...... X ...... Sawtooth ...... Thorobred ...... 013 ...... X ...... Targhee ...... Bald Mountain ...... 614 ...... X X ...... Targhee ...... Bear Creek ...... 615 ...... X X ...... X Targhee ...... Caribou City ...... 161 ...... X X ...... Targhee ...... Diamond Peak...... 601 X X X X ...... X Targhee ...... Garfield Mountain...... 961 ...... X X X ...... X Targhee ...... Garns Mountain ...... 611 ...... X X ...... X Targhee ...... Italian Peak...... 945 X ...... X ...... X Targhee ...... Lionhead ...... 963 X ...... X ...... X Targhee ...... Mt. Jefferson...... 962 ...... X X X ...... X Targhee ...... Palisades ...... 613 X ...... X ...... X Targhee ...... Poker Peak ...... 616 ...... X ...... X Targhee ...... Pole Creek ...... 160 ...... X ...... Targhee ...... Raynolds Pass ...... 603 ...... X ...... Targhee ...... Two Top ...... 604 ...... X ...... Targhee ...... West Slope Tetons ...... 610 ...... X ...... X Targhee ...... Winegar Hole ...... 347 ...... X X ...... X Wallowa-Whitman Big Canyon Id ...... 853 ...... X ...... Wallowa-Whitman Klopton Creek—Corral 854 ...... X ...... Creek Id.

[73 FR 61489, Oct. 16, 2008, as amended at 76 FR 17342, Mar. 29, 2011]

Subpart D—Colorado Roadless management, State-specific direction Area Management for the protection of roadless areas on National Forest System lands in Colo- rado. The intent of this regulation is to AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 472, 529, 551, 1608, 1613; protect roadless values by restricting 23 U.S.C. 201, 205. tree cutting, sale, and removal; road SOURCE: 77 FR 39602, July 3, 2012, unless construction and reconstruction; and otherwise noted. linear construction zones within Colo- rado Roadless Areas (CRAs), with nar- § 294.40 Purpose. rowly focused exceptions. Activities The purpose of this subpart is to pro- must be designed to conserve the vide, within the context of multiple use roadless area characteristics listed in

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§ 294.41, although applying the excep- by the applicable local government, tions in § 294.42, § 294.43, and § 294.44 may local fire department, and State agen- have effects to some roadless area cy responsible for forest management, characteristics. in consultation with interested parties and the Federal land management § 294.41 Definitions. agencies managing land in the vicinity The following terms and definitions of the at-risk community; apply to this subpart. (2) Identifies and prioritizes areas for At-Risk Community: As defined under hazardous fuel reduction treatments section 101 of the Healthy Forests Res- and recommends the types and meth- toration Act (HFRA). ods of treatment on Federal and non- Catchment: A watershed delineation Federal land that will protect one or beginning at the downstream point of more at-risk communities and essen- occupation of native cutthroat trout tial infrastructure; and and encompassing the upstream bound- (3) Recommends measures to reduce ary of waters draining in the stream structural ignitability throughout the system. at-risk community. Colorado Roadless Areas: Areas des- Condition Class 3: As defined under ignated pursuant to this subpart and section 101 of the HFRA the term identified in a set of maps maintained at the national headquarters office of ‘‘condition class 3’’ means an area of the Forest Service. Colorado Roadless Federal land, under which: Areas established by this subpart shall (1) Fire regimes on land have been constitute the exclusive set of National significantly altered from historical Forest System lands within the State ranges; of Colorado to which the provisions 36 (2) There exists a high risk of losing CFR 220.5(a)(2) shall apply. key ecosystem components from fire; Colorado Roadless Areas Upper Tier (3) Fire frequencies have departed Acres: A subset of Colorado Roadless from historical frequencies by multiple Areas identified in a set of maps main- return intervals, resulting in dramatic tained at the national headquarters of- changes to: fice of the Forest Service which have (i) The size, frequency, intensity, or limited exceptions to provide a high- severity of fires; or level of protection for these areas. (ii) Landscape patterns; and Community Protection Zone: An area (4) Vegetation attributes have been extending one-half mile from the significantly altered from the histor- boundary of an at-risk community; or ical range of the attributes. an area within one and a half miles Fire Hazard: A fuel complex defined from the boundary of an at-risk com- by volume, type, condition, arrange- munity, where any land: ment and location that determines the (1) Has a sustained steep slope that ease of ignition and the resistance to creates the potential for wildfire be- control; expresses the potential fire be- havior endangering the at-risk commu- havior for a fuel type, regardless of the nity; (2) Has a geographic feature that aids fuel type’s weather influenced fuel in creating an effective fire break, such moisture condition. as a road or a ridge top; or Fire Occurrence: One fire event occur- (3) Is in condition class 3 as defined ring in a specific place within a specific by HFRA. period of time; a general term describ- Community Wildfire Protection Plan: ing past or current wildland fire As defined under section 101 of the events. HFRA, and used in this subpart, the Fire Risk: The probability or chance term ‘‘community wildfire protection that a fire might start, as affected by plan’’ means a plan for an at-risk com- the presence and activities of causative munity that: agents. (1) Is developed within the context of Forest Road: As defined at 36 CFR the collaborative agreements and the 212.1, the term means a road wholly or guidance established by the Wildland partly within or adjacent to and serv- Fire Leadership Council and agreed to ing the National Forest System that

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