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Areas of Critical Environmental Concern Cedar City Resource Management Plan DRAFT EVALUATION REPORT for Areas of Critical Environmental Concern Cedar City Resource Management Plan Cedar City Field Office Bureau of Land Management April 2013 Draft ACEC Evaluation Report TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................. I INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................................................... 1 The Law: FLPMA ................................................................................................................................................ 1 The Regulation: 43 CFR 1610.7-2 ....................................................................................................................... 1 The Policy: BLM Manual 1613 ........................................................................................................................... 1 SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION PROCESS ....................................................................................................... 3 EXISTING ACECS ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 ACEC NOMINATIONS ................................................................................................................................................ 3 POTENTIAL ACECS ................................................................................................................................................... 4 CONSULTATION WITH COOPERATORS ....................................................................................................................... 4 ACECS IN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS ..................................................................................................................... 5 CONSIDERATION OF POTENTIAL ACECS IN THE DRAFT RMP/EIS ............................................................................ 5 RELEVANCE AND IMPORTANCE CRITERIA ........................................................................................................ 6 THE TASK .................................................................................................................................................................. 6 1) Identifying Potentially Relevant Values .......................................................................................................... 6 2) Determining Relevance .................................................................................................................................... 6 3) Determining Importance .................................................................................................................................. 7 4) Special Management ........................................................................................................................................ 8 5) Mapping Potential ACECs ............................................................................................................................... 8 6) Evaluation of Existing ACEC .......................................................................................................................... 8 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................................................................... 1 APPENDIX A MAP OF NOMINATED ACECS .............................................................................................................. 1 APPENDIX B POTENTIAL ACECS ............................................................................................................................... 1 APPENDIX C NOMINATED, CONSIDERED AND POTENTIAL ACECS ............................................................................ 1 APPENDIX D EVALUATION REPORTS ........................................................................................................................ 1 Black Mountains ACEC ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Buckskin Valley ACEC ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Frisco ACEC ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Gold Spring and Stateline ACEC ....................................................................................................................... 13 Granite Peak (Mineral Mountains) ACEC ......................................................................................................... 17 Great Basin Core ACEC .................................................................................................................................... 24 Mineral Mountains Obsidian ACEC .................................................................................................................. 29 Modena, Beaver River, Tusher Slopes ACECs .................................................................................................. 33 Parowan Gap ACEC .......................................................................................................................................... 36 Parowan Gap ACEC Cultural ............................................................................................................................ 43 Parowan Gap Wildlife ACEC ............................................................................................................................ 48 Pine Valley ACEC ............................................................................................................................................. 52 Pinyon Penstemon ACEC .................................................................................................................................. 57 Sand Cliff Springs ACEC .................................................................................................................................. 61 South Central Utah ACEC ................................................................................................................................. 64 South Wah Wah Mountains ACEC .................................................................................................................... 69 Wah Wah Ponderosa Pine ACEC ...................................................................................................................... 80 Bureau of Land Management Cedar City Field Office Draft ACEC Evaluation Report INTRODUCTION This report documents the process used to evaluate nominations for Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) considered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in completing the Cedar City Field Office Resource Management Plan (RMP). BLM staff evaluated 23 nominations for ACECs, totaling 1,036,655 public land acres within the Cedar City Field Office. Of these, 8 areas totaling 516,013 acres were determined to contain relevant and important values and were identified as potential ACECs to be considered further in the RMP. BACKGROUND BLM is directed by law, regulation, and policy to consider designating and protecting ACECs when developing land use plans. The Law: FLPMA In the development and revision of land use plans, the Secretary shall…give priority to the designation and protection of areas of critical environmental concern. —Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Title II, Sec 202(c) 3 The term “areas of critical environmental concern” (often referred as “ACECs”) means areas within the public lands where special management attention is required (when such areas are developed or used or where no development is required) to protect and prevent irreparable damage to important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or other natural systems or processes, or to protect life and safety from natural hazards. —FLPMA, Title I, Sec 103(a) The Regulation: 43 CFR 1610.7-2 To be a potential ACEC, both of the following criteria shall be met: • Relevance: There shall be present a significant historic, cultural, or scenic value; a fish or wildlife resource or other natural system or process; or a natural hazard. • Importance: The above described value, resource, system, process, or hazard shall have substantial significance and values. This generally requires qualities of more than local significance and special worth, consequence, meaning, distinctiveness, or cause for concern. The Policy: BLM Manual 1613 BLM Manual 1613 provides direction for identifying, analyzing, designating, monitoring, and managing ACECs. Key points include: • The ACEC designation indicates to the public that the BLM recognizes that an area has significant values and has established special management measures to protect those values. Bureau of Land Management -1- Cedar City Field Office Draft ACEC Evaluation Report • Designation of ACECs is only done through the resource management planning process, either in an RMP itself or in a plan amendment. • To be designated as an ACEC, an area must require special management attention to protect the importance
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