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Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands Travel Management Environmental Assessment Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands Travel Management Environmental Assessment Recreation Specialist Report (Unit K-109 accessed by National Forest System Road K107, Harding County, New Mexico) Prepared by: John G. Baumchen Recreation Specialist for: Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands Cibola National Forest February 6th, 2012 Background The Kiowa and Rita Blanca Ranger District is comprised of two National Grasslands: The Kiowa National Grasslands (NG), which covers 137,157 acres and is located within Mora, Harding, Union, and Colfax Counties, New Mexico, while the Rita Blanca NG, which covers 92,989 acres located in Dallam County, Texas and in Cimarron County, Oklahoma The district office is located in Clayton, New Mexico. It is just west of the eastern portion of the Kiowa, while the villages of Roy and Mosquero, New Mexico are south of the western part of the Kiowa. The small unincorporated community of Felt, Oklahoma is within the Rita Blanca NG. Texline, Texas is along the southwest boundary of the Rita Blanca. Dalhart, Texas is south of the Rita Blanca while Stratford, Texas is just east of the Rita Blanca. The district is located in the southern portion of the North American Great Plains region in the short grass prairie. It is located in a sparsely-populated rural area, that is away from population centers, is isolated, and only has a few developed recreational facilities. The district receives a low to moderate amount of motor vehicle use related to recreational activities. There are several larger communities in the three-state region near the district office, including: Raton, New Mexico, approximately 83 miles to the northwest, Guymon, Oklahoma, approximately 105 miles to the east, Tucumcari, New Mexico, about 112 miles to the southwest, Amarillo, Texas, about 131 miles southeast, and Las Vegas, New Mexico, about 150 miles to the southwest. Recreational activities occur year-round and include: Day use activities such as: sightseeing, bird watching, fishing, hunting, hiking, horseback riding, picnicking, rock climbing, pleasure driving and wildlife and scenery viewing. Overnight use is primarily camping — either in a campground or at dispersed locations. Developed Recreation Developed recreation is limited on the Grasslands, but there is no charge to use the sites and they are open year-round. The recreation sites are as follows: Developed campgrounds: . Mills Rim Campground, located on top of the rim of the Canadian River Canyon on the south side of NFSR K600. Mills Canyon Campground, located on the west side of NFSR K600 in the bottom of the Canadian River Canyon. Developed picnic areas: . Felt Picnic Area, located south of Felt, Oklahoma. Thompson Grove Picnic Area, located east of Texline, Texas. Developed interpretive site: . Santa Fe Trail Interpretive site, located north of Clayton, New Mexico on the south side of the historic Santa Fe Trail. Dispersed Recreation Several dispersed recreation opportunities exist on the district. Activities include: hiking, biking on roads, rock climbing, fishing, wildlife viewing, sightseeing, dispersed camping (both backpacking and motorized), picnicking, hunting, gathering forest products, Off-highway-vehicle (OHV) riding, and pleasure driving. Exemptions and Permits Page | 2 Some motorized activities, including driving on non-designated routes or off-road motorized use have been and will continue outside of those routes and areas designated through the Travel Management Rule process. This activity was addressed in the Travel Management Rule by providing exemptions for some motorized activities as shown below in 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 212.51(a) and (b). § 212.51 Designation of roads, trails, and areas. (a) General. Motor vehicle use on National Forest System roads, on National Forest System trails, and in areas on National Forest System lands shall be designated by vehicle class and, if appropriate, by time of year by the responsible official on administrative units or Ranger Districts of the National Forest System, provided that the following vehicles and uses are exempted from these designations: (1) Aircraft; (2) Watercraft; (3) Over-snow vehicles (see §212.81); (4) Limited administrative use by the Forest Service; (5) Use of any fire, military, emergency, or law enforcement vehicle for emergency purposes; (6) Authorized use of any combat or combat support vehicle for national defense purposes; (7) Law enforcement response to violations of law, including pursuit; and (8) Motor vehicle use that is specifically authorized under a written authorization issued under Federal law or regulations. (b) Motor vehicle use for dispersed camping or big game retrieval. In designating routes, the responsible official may include in the designation the limited use of motor vehicles within a specified distance of certain forest roads or trails where motor vehicle use is allowed, and if appropriate within specified time periods, solely for the purposes of dispersed camping or retrieval of a downed big game animal by an individual who has legally taken that animal. The exemptions under 36 CFR 212.51(a) for cross-country or undesignated route travel is primarily administrative. These are mainly activities such as emergency situations, agency, and authorized use or issuance of a federal permit. Administrative use may include motorized use by state agencies or the Forest Service to monitor, enforce, manage, or pursue other activities as necessary to accomplish management goals. Travel allowed by authorized use or issuance of a federal permit would be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the authorization. Permitted activities are part of the existing condition and are not going to result in a change in motorized use. For example; permits for gathering of forest products such as firewood will continue to allow for off- road motor vehicle use for cutting and loading wood as is currently practiced. Language to allow this off- road motor vehicle use is included in the language of the permit. A written authorization or a federal permit may also exempt motor vehicle use on undesignated route, closed roads or for cross-country travel as defined in the authorization. This would include but not be limited to travel to meet the conditions of grazing permits, special use permits such as power lines or pipelines. State permits for collection of big game species (hunting licenses and hunt tags) will continue to be issued by the state but retrieval of game taken by a hunter will be subject to the conditions approved for motorized big game retrieval in the Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands Travel Management Environmental Analysis decision. The exemption under (b) is for public motorized cross-country or undesignated route travel that is designated on the MVUM. Under (b) it is not so much an exemption but a designation of cross-country or undesignated travel in a designated corridor as shown on the MVUM. The district is currently open to cross-country motorized travel. Presently there no exemptions to a travel rule. Page | 3 The Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands presently manage motorized use through administrative means by temporarily closing roads during periods of wet conditions or extreme fire danger by issuing closures. This system would continue to be in place even after the implementation of the Travel Management Rule. Motorized Activities Currently the district is open to motorized cross-country travel. There are 387.6 miles of Maintenance Level (ML) 2 and ML3 National Forest System (NFS) roads on the district. Currently, there are no miles of motorized NFS trails designated specifically for OHV riding. The terrain of much of the district is flat to rolling hills, with prairie vegetation that allows for easy cross-country travel by All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), Utility Terrain Vehicles (UTVs) and 4-wheel drive vehicles. Although OHV use occurs across the district, the Canadian River Canyon in the western portion of the Kiowa NG has the highest use. All of the NFS roads on the district are currently open to all vehicles and unauthorized roads listed in the roads database are also still in use. Frequently, there is no obvious difference between system roads and unauthorized roads that are still in use because the majority of the system roads are not marked with route markers or other signs that would indicate they are system roads. Unauthorized routes are often well- defined, receive a moderate amount of use, and are not easily discernible from system routes. Roads provide access to recreation opportunities such as sightseeing, exploring, hunting, and accessing developed and dispersed recreation opportunities. The more primitive roads provide for challenging OHV driving skills. Driving for pleasure is a frequent recreation activity identified by respondents in the Cibola’s National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) surveys. In 2001, 10 percent of the respondents indicated that driving for pleasure was one of the activities they participated in on the Cibola National Forest and Grasslands. In 2006, the grassland districts were analyzed separately from the forest districts and 25.7 percent of the respondents reported that they drove for pleasure on the grassland districts. Most of the OHV use on the district has been primarily for transportation for hunting activities and exploring in the Canadian River Canyon area. However, public comments and research indicated that OHV recreationists desired a system with loop opportunities that offer a variety of destinations, experiences and challenges. Motorized recreationists have different preferences depending on the vehicle they use for OHV recreation. For example: OHV motorcyclists prefer single track trails and can ride between 35 to 80 miles in a day. ATV and UTV riders often prefer trail experiences to driving roads and trails because trails often provide more challenging terrain and the narrower width enhances the connection to the landscape. Most ATVs are less than 50 inches wide and are constructed to accommodate only one rider, while UTVs or “side-by-side” vehicles are a wider (often up to 65 inches wide) and are designed to hold the driver and a passenger.
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