Revised Land and Resource Management Plan: Sumter National ForestU.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region, 2004 |
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acreage acres allocation Alternative F analysis Andrew Pickens Andrew Pickens Ranger aquatic associated canopy Chattooga River community types counties Creek Cumulative Effects density designated developed early-successional ecosystem Enoree Enoree River Environmental erosion estimated et.al existing Forest Counties forest management forest plan Forest Service gypsy moth habitat habitat element hardwood hemlock heritage resources impacts increase inventory landscape loblolly pine Long Cane maintain maintenance management activities management prescriptions national forest lands National Forest System natural occur old growth Ownership percent Pickens Ranger District piedmont Pine-Oak plant populations potential prescribed burning prescribed fire protection rare communities recreation opportunities regeneration restoration riparian areas riparian corridors risk roadless areas roads SAMAB savanna Scenic River sediment shortleaf pine soil South Carolina stands streams successional forest Sumter National Forest surface Table Mountain pine timber harvest trails trees water quality watershed wetlands Wild and Scenic wilderness wildland wildlife woodlands
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Page 6-55 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 3-73 - Wetlands adjacent to waters identified in paragraphs (i) (1) through (5) of this section ("Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
Page 6-50 - Sustained yield of the several products and services" means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national forests without impairment of the productivity of the land.
Page 6-51 - take" means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. (15) The term "threatened species" means any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Page 6-28 - To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation ; and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality.
Page 6-55 - Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable...
Page 6-29 - Wild and Scenic Rivers Act". (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Page 6-50 - Suitability: The appropriateness of applying certain resource management practices to a particular area of land, as determined by an analysis of the economic and environmental consequences and the alternative uses foregone.
Page 6-51 - Tiering refers to the coverage of general matters in broader environmental impact statements (such as national program or policy statements) with subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses (such as regional or basinwide program statements or ultimately site-specific statements) incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared.
Page 6-40 - Recreational river areas — those rivers or sections of rivers that are readily accessible by road or railroad, that may have some development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone some impoundment or diversion in the past.