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Part 1—Vision­ Part 1—Vision Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan 5 Part 1—Vision Management Plan Giant Sequoia National Monument 6 Part 1—Vision Purpose of the Monument Plan The purpose of the Giant Sequoia National Monument decision making, while guiding resource management Management Plan (Monument Plan) is to provide programs, practices, uses, and projects. It will overall strategic guidance for managing the Giant guide the development and analysis of resource Sequoia National Monument (Monument). The unique management activities in future site-specific projects and special features of the Monument—the giant to move resources toward the desired conditions for sequoia groves, the ecosystems that support them, the Monument. and the other objects of interest—are what make the Monument what it is: a special area that merits careful This plan does not include any decisions on specific management, protection, and preservation. This plan projects or activities. Those decisions will be made provides for the protection of the objects of interest later, after more detailed analysis of specific project while encouraging continued public and recreation sites and additional public involvement on site- access and use consistent with the purposes of the specific proposals. Compliance with the National Monument (Clinton 2000, p. 24097). It contributes Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is required for to social, economic, and ecological sustainability by any project-level decision that may have an effect guiding the restoration or maintenance of the health of on the environment. Project-level decisions must be the land in the Monument. informed by site-specific analysis through an open, public process. This Monument Plan was developed for the selected alternative, Alternative B, as identified in the Giant The Monument Plan is adaptive in that new Sequoia National Monument Final Environmental knowledge and information can be analyzed and Impact Statement (FEIS). The FEIS describes the the plan changed, if appropriate, at any time. It analysis used in formulating the Monument Plan. A provides overall intent and guidance, but provides the Record of Decision is also available that identifies the flexibility needed for the responsible official to work selected alternative and the rationale used in making with the public and adapt management strategies to the decision. the constantly changing demands that are inherent to natural resource management. It defines the The Monument Plan provides the strategic parameters (limits) for management but allows for direction at the broad program level for managing the adjustment of future project-level decisions to the Monument and its resources over the next 10 accommodate rapidly changing social and resource to 15 years. It includes the direction required by conditions. This allows the latest science and public the Clinton proclamation (Proclamation), and it input to be employed at the time a decision is to be replaces, in its entirety, all previous management made. direction for the Monument, including the direction in the 1988 Sequoia National Forest Land and The Monument Plan was prepared according to the Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) for this requirements of the National Forest Management Act part of the Sequoia National Forest. It is the single (NFMA), its implementing regulations at 36 Code of comprehensive management plan for this area. While Federal Regulations (CFR) 219 (77 FR 21260, April the Monument Plan is a stand-alone document, it is 9, 2012), the National Environmental Policy Act of also a subset of the entire Forest Plan. 1969 (NEPA), and the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations at 40 CFR 1500-1509. This strategic direction was developed by an NFMA’s current implementing regulations at 36 interdisciplinary planning team working with forest CFR 219.17(b)(3) (77 FR at 21270) allow the use staff, making use of extensive public involvement of the provisions of the prior planning regulation, and collaboration, and the best science available. including its transition provisions (2000 Planning The Monument Plan implements the Proclamation Rule at 36 CFR 219.35(a) and (b) [2010], December by providing guidance to protect the objects of 18, 2009). The transition provisions of the 2000 interest, restore ecosystems, and provide opportunities planning rule allow the use of the prior planning for public use. It provides a context for informed regulation promulgated in 1982. The Monument Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan 7 Part 1—Vision Plan was developed using the process outlined in Unless otherwise noted, all subsequent citations to the 1982 planning regulations, while considering the “36 CFR 219” in this document refer to the 1982 best available science as required by the 2000 rule planning process: see 36 CFR Part 219 (2000). transition provisions (36 CFR 219.35(a) (2010)). Organization of the Monument Plan This Monument Plan consists of four interrelated parts for the Monument. It then lays out the management that work together to facilitate the use of adaptive strategies and objectives (36 CFR 219.11 (b)(2)) that management and the development of management the Forest Service will strive to achieve in order to activities that will move the Monument toward the move the Monument toward the desired conditions desired conditions. Part 1—Vision paints the picture described in Part 1. Part 2 also identifies special areas of the conditions desired in the long term. Part 2— in the Monument (36 CFR 219.17(3)), as well as the Strategy contains the strategic management direction. land allocations and management areas (36 CFR Part 3—Design Criteria contains the guidance for 219.11(c)(4)) for the Monument. designing actions and activities in order to make progress toward the vision and desired conditions Part 3 is the Design Criteria for the Monument. The described in Part 1. Part 4 contains the Transportation design criteria include the laws and regulations, Plan for the Monument. treatment and clear need criteria, the decision tree, standards and guidelines (36 CFR 219.11(c) and Part 1 is the Vision for the Monument. It includes the 219.13 through 219.29(5)), and monitoring and purpose of the Monument Plan, the relationship of the evaluation procedures that will be used during site- Monument Plan to other documents, and a description specific project planning and implementation. Design of the Monument. Part 1 discusses the Monument criteria are sideboards for subsequent projects and niche (the Monument’s uniqueness on a national and activities to help achieve the desired conditions. regional level) and its recreation niche. Part 1 also describes the desired conditions (36 CFR 219.11(b)(1)) Part 4 is the Transportation Plan for the Monument. for the resources of the Monument. Required by the Proclamation, it provides a framework by which to manage the transportation Part 2 is the Strategy for the Monument. It begins by system and make future decisions concerning changes identifying generally suitable land uses and activities to it. 1. These are 1982 regulations that are no longer in the CFR, but 3. Ibid. are still applicable to this plan amendment. 4. Ibid. 2. Ibid. 5. Ibid. Management Plan Giant Sequoia National Monument 8 Part 1—Vision Relationship of the Monument Plan to Other Documents Figure 1 Management Direction and Guidance for the Monument The Record of Decision (ROD) for the Monument Agreement (MSA) and is constrained by that which is Plan EIS amends the existing 1988 Forest Plan, as applicable to the Monument and consistent with the amended by the 1991 Kings River Wild and Scenic Proclamation. The Monument Plan also considers the River and Special Management Area Implementation 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (2004 Plan (KRSMA), the 2001 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan SNFPA), but is not constrained by its management Amendment (2001 SNFPA), and the 2007 Sierra recommendations. The Monument Plan was guided Nevada Forest Management Indicator Species by the best available science, a thorough review Amendment (SNF MIS). The Monument Plan was of relevant scientific information, and practical developed using the guidance and management experience, as required by national forest planning direction provided by the 1990 Mediated Settlement direction and the Proclamation. Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan 9 Part 1—Vision Monument Description The Giant Sequoia National Monument (Monument) the Giant Sequoia National Monument holds a diverse is located in south-central California and covers array of scientific and historic resources. Magnificent 328,315 acres administered by the United States groves of towering giant sequoias, the world’s largest Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, trees, are interspersed within a great belt of coniferous Sequoia National Forest (see location maps in Appen- forest, jeweled with mountain meadows. Bold granitic dices A and B). Created by presidential proclamation domes, spires, and plunging gorges texture the land- on April 15, 2000, the “rich and varied landscape of scape” (Clinton 2000, p. 24095). Vision The Monument is set apart and reserved for the pond turtle; and other species listed as threatened, purpose of protecting the objects of interest identified endangered, or sensitive by the Endangered in the Proclamation, for their proper care and Species Act or the Forest Service. management (Clinton 2000). The objects of interest ● The paleontological resources in meadow were generally identified in the
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