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Cave and Karst Management Through Land Use Planning

This presentation highlights the importance of land use planning in managing cave and karst resources, including the actions needed for implementation, restrictions on adverse uses, budget access, and priorities establishment.

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Cave and Karst Management Through Land Use Planning

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  1. Cave and Karst Management ThroughLand Use Planning Aaron Stockton Cave Specialist Bureau of Land Management James Goodbar Sr. Cave Specialist Bureau of Land Management Cody, Wyoming May 12-16, 2014

  2. Why Land Use Planning? • Provides for Actions Needed to Implement • Restricts Uses That May be Adverse to Significant Cave Resources • Allows for Budget Access • Establishes Priorities • Basis of NEPA-Activity Management Plans

  3. Cave / Karst ManagementThrough Land Use Planning Required by: • Federal Cave Protection Act • FLPMA • Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act • NEPA/CEQ Regulations • Endangered Species Act • Manuals

  4. Cave / Karst Management Through Land Use Planning Purpose: • Primary Mechanism for Guiding Activities to Achieve Mission & Goals • Desired Outcomes (Your Vision) • Allowable Uses/Restrictions & Mgmt. Actions • Collaborative Involvement • Integrates NEPA

  5. Cave / Karst ManagementThrough Land Use Planning Levels of Planning • Resource Management Plan (Field Office) • Activity Level Plan (Cave/ Area) • Project Plan (Specific Action ie. Gate)

  6. Resource Management PlanSTEP 1. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 1. Introduction (Blah, Blah, Blah) • 2. Area Profile (Existing Resource Conditions) • 3. Current Management Direction • 4. Management Opportunities • 5. Coordination with Other Plans • 6. Specific Mandates and Authorities

  7. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 2. Area Profile (Existing Conditions) • Resources • Regional Context - Local, Regional, National • Resource-Specific Information • Indicators - Factors Describing Conditions • Current Conditions - Location, Extent, Condition • Trends - Degree and Direction of Change • Forecast - Predict Changes, Describe Drivers • Key Factors - What Should Guide Mgmt. Decisions

  8. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 2. Area Profile (Existing Conditions) • Resource Use • Current Levels • Forecast • Key Features • Special Designations • Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) • Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) • Socio Economic

  9. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 3. Current Management Direction • Relevant Plans and Amendments • Management Decisions

  10. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 5. Coordination with Other Plans • County/city plans • State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies, State lands plans • Other Federal agency plans

  11. Coordination With Other Programs

  12. Analysis of Management SituationAMS • 6. Specific Mandates & Authority • Laws • Regulations • Policies

  13. Resource Management PlanStep 2.Roll the Information Form the AMS Into the RMP • 1. Introduction (Blah, Blah, Blah) • 2. Area Profile (Becomes Affected Environment) • 3. Current Management Direction (Existing Decisions) • 4. Management Opportunities (Becomes Alternatives) • 5. Coordination with Other Plans • 6. Specific Mandates and Authorities (New Guidance)

  14. Basis for Land Use Planning: • 1601 Manual1601 Land Use Planning Manual: Appendix C, Pg. 13, L • 1. Management (resources, visitors, facilities • 2. Marketing (outreach, education, interpretation • 3. Monitoring (social, environmental, administrative) • 4. Administration (regulatory, permit)

  15. Plans Are Guided By..... • Laws, Rules, Regulations, Policy • Inventory Data/ Caves/ Geology • Available Resources (funds, staff, volunteers) • Land Uses (above cave) • Info/Data from Cave Files • Your Partners • Your Imagination

  16. What’s Included In Land Use Planning Decisions • Objectives for actions: Protections, use, restoration, • Desired future condition: Describe what you are trying to achieve • Allocation: The line on a map. • ACEC determination. • Evaluation of public nominations, • Basis for use: Recreation , Research, Habitat Protection • Monitoring: How do you know when what you are doing is the right thing, or how to measure success?

  17. Key Point • Involve Your Partners Early and Often • Through the EIS Process There are Required Points for Public Involvement • Listen to Your Constituent Groups • Often They Know the Resources Better Than You Do.

  18. ? QUESTIONS ? Where does this passage go? Modified from 2001 Buzz Hummel and 2007 Geoff Middaugh Presentations Photos by : Jim Goodbar, Mat Safford, BLM stock.

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