7386

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7386
• Author: National Park Service.
• Title: Resource/Boundary Evaluation for Lands Adjacent to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: Washington, D.C.
• Copyright Material: NO

conspicuous; prominent. 2. Superior to others of its kind,
distinguished, excellent.

PARK LAND. Land administered by the National Park
Service.

POST-RPMA. After October 21, 1976, the date of approval
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

PRE-RPMA. Before October 21, 1976, the date of approval
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

ROAD. Vehicle routes that have been improved and
maintained by mechanical means to ensure relatively regular
and continuous use.

SIGNIACANT. Representing an outstanding example of a
particular type of resource, possessing exceptional value or
quality, offering superlative opportunity for recreation, pUblic
use and enjoyment, and retaining a high degree of integrity
as a true, accurate and relatively unspoiled example of a
resource.

SOUTUDE. 1. The state of being alone or remote from
habitations; isolation. 2. A lonely, unfrequented, or secluded
place.

THREATENED SPECIES. Any species, or significant
population of that species, likely to become endangered
within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant
portion of its range. Usually includes only those that have
been recognized and listed as threatened by Federal and
State governments.

VAUD EXISTING RIGHTS. Legal interests that attach to a
land or mineral estate that cannot be divested from the estate
until that interest expires or is relinquished.

VISUAL RESOURCE. Land, water, vegetation, animal and
other visible features.

VISUAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (VRM). The inventory
and planning actions taken to identify visual values and to
establish objectives for managing those values; and the
management actions taken to achieve the visual
management Objectives.

VISUAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (VRM) CLASSES. Identify
the degree of acceptable visual change within a characteristic
landscape. VRM classes are assigned to public land through
management decision, using the guidelines of scenic quality,
visual sensitivity, and visibility. The value of land uses that
may be affected plays an important, constraining role in
determining VRM decisions.
CLASS I: Preserve the existing character of the landscape.
Includes congressionally authorized areas (e.g., wilderness)
and areas approved through the RMP where the goal is to
provide a landscape that appears unaltered by man.
ClASS IV: Provide for management activities Which
require major modification of the landscape. The level of
change to the characteristic landscape can be high.
Management activities may dominate the view and be the
major focus of viewer attention. However, every attempt
should be made to minimize the impact of these activities
through careful location, minimal disturbance, and other
landscape management practices.

WILDERNESS. An area formally designated by Act of
Congress as part of the National Wilderness Preservation
System. The definition contained in Section 2(c) of the

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Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 891), "A wilderness in
contrast with those areas where man and his own work
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,
An area of wilderness is further defined to mean.,.an area of
undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character
and influence, without permanent improvements or
habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve
its natural conditions which (1) generally appears to have
been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the
Imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has
outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and
unconfined types of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand
acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its
preservation and use in an unimpaired condition and (4) may
also contain ecological, geological or other features of
scientific, educational scenic, or historical value,"

WILDERNESS STUDY AREA (WSA). A roadless area
determined to have wilderness characteristics as described
in Section 603 of FLPMA and Section 2(6) of the Wilderness
Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 891).

WITHDRAWAL An action which restricts the use of public
land and segregates the land from the operation of some or
all of the public land and mineral laws. Withdrawals are also
used to transfer juriSdiction of management of public lands
to other Federal Agencies,

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