BLM - Colorado Lands with Wilderness Characteristics
Creator(s):
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Description:
Shapefile Format - BLM Colorado Lands with Wilderness Characteristics is consistent with Section 201 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which requires the Secretary of the Interior to “prepare and maintain on a continuing basis an inventory of all public lands and their resource and other values,” and the BLM Land Use Planning Handbook, BLM Colorado has identified and begun an assessment of BLM-managed lands with wilderness characteristics outside of existing WSAs. BLM Manual 6310 - Conducting Wilderness Characteristics Inventory on BLM Lands, provides the guidance from which BLM Colorado performs the wilderness characteristic inventory process.
The lands in this dataset were found to have wilderness characteristics. In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), through the land use planning process, the BLM is required to consider all available information in order to determine the mix of resource use and protection that best serves the multiple-use and sustained-yield mandate. Under the FLPMA, the BLM has numerous authorities requiring the agency to maintain inventories of all public lands and their resources, including wilderness characteristics, and to consider such information during the land use planning process.BLM Colorado Land with Wilderness Characteristics
Publisher:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
