Name: Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Boundary
Display Field: WILDERNESS
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: A boundary depicting an area that has been designated as a National Wilderness in the National Wilderness Preservation System. then was edited/updated based on publications with the legal description of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Boundary
Copyright Text: Payette National Forest East Zone GIS Program
Description: The 2003 Payette Land and Resource Management Plan (“Forest Plan”; USDA 2003) provides management direction for resources on the Forest and assigns different components, such as desired conditions, standards, and guidelines, for management areas (MAs). The Forest Plan divides the Forest into 16 different MAs, based on administrative and watershed boundaries.MAs that fall within the project area boundary are:• MA 12. South Fork almon River • MA 13. Big creek/stibnite
Copyright Text: Payette National Forest East Zone GIS Program
Description: Management prescriptions categories (MPCs) are broad categories of management prescriptions that indicate the general management emphasis for a given area. The MPCs that fall within the project area boundary are:• MPC 3.1 - Aquatic/Terrestrial Preservation• MPC 3.2 - Aquatic/Terrestrial Restoration
Copyright Text: Payette National Forest East Zone GIS Program
Description: The RoadlessArea_ID_2008 feature class describes the boundaries of Roadless Areas designated by the Idaho Roadless Rule of 2008 and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The final rule reflects the views and concerns of thousands of people who expressed interest during the rule-making process, which ran from October 2006 to October 2008. The public comment period generated 38,000 comments. The Idaho Roadless Rule takes a balanced approach, recognizing both local and national interests. Five management themes have been established (and are identified in the MgmtClassification attribute) that provide prohibitions, with exceptions or conditioned permissions, governing timber cutting, removing and selling, road construction and reconstruction, and certain mineral activities. These management themes are: Wild Land Recreation, Special Areas of Historic or Tribal Significance, Primitive, Backcountry Restoration, and General Forest, Rangeland, and Grassland. Each theme provides management direction that varies from most restrictive to least restrictive and provides roadless character that varies from higher quality to lower quality. Forest Plan Special Areas are also identified, where management of the area is according to Forest Plan direction, not the Idaho Roadless Rule. These special areas include items such as wild and scenic river corridors, research natural areas, etc. This dataset is a compilation of the most up to date Roadless areas from the National Forests in Idaho. This dataset was compiled by taking the roadless area boundaries from each of the National Forests in Idaho and adding the management area prescription boundaries from each forest. For some forests both the existing forest plan management prescription layer and a "proposed" prescriptions boundaries were used. See the list of these Forests in the metadata for the each forest. Date of last update Date of last update is captured in the Lineage section.The RoadlessArea_ID_2008 feature class describes the boundaries of Roadless Areas designated by the Idaho Roadless Rule of 2008 and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The Idaho Roadless Rule provides management direction for conserving and managing Roadless Areas on the PAF. Idaho Roadless Areas (IRAs) were designated as part of the Idaho Roadless Rule to maintain sections of land with roadless character. The Idaho Roadless Rule established management classifications (also referred to as management themes) which represent a management continuum from less restrictive management direction in areas with lower quality roadless character to more restrictive management in lands with higher quality roadless character (73 FR 61455, 2008). The project area contains two IRAs (French Creek (Primitive and Backcountry Restoration) and Patrick Butte (Forest Plan Special Area and Primitive)) totaling 11,828 acres of National Forest Service Land.Idaho Roadless Areas located within the project area:Caton LakeHorse HeavenMeadow CreekSeceshSugar Mountain
Copyright Text: Data was compiled from the 11 National Forests in Idaho: Boise, Caribou, Challis, Clearwater, Idaho Panhandle, Kootenai, Payette, Salmon, Sawtooth,Targhee, and Wallowa-Whitman.