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<br />Wilderness Management <br /> <br />Non-Wilderness Management <br />Timber <br /> <br />13.500 acres of natural mature timber <br />cover will be valuable for watershed, wild- <br />life habitat. recreation use, aesthetics, <br />and scientific research and study. <br /> <br />9,920 acres of seedling-sapling-pole size <br />timber would continue through the natural <br />vegetative succession cycle. <br /> <br />2.155 acres of non-forested sites which <br />would support timber will depend upon <br />natural regeneration. <br /> <br />An estimated 1,500 acres of mature <br />lodgepole pine with 14.890,000 board feet, <br />and 3.390 acres of Engelmann Spruce- <br />subalpine fir with 41.172,000 board feet <br />would become available for consideration <br />for harvest and continued production. An <br />estimated 12,410 acres of inoperable ma- <br />ture timber type would remain in natural <br />condition for watershed, wildlife habitat, <br />recreation use, aesthetics, and scientific <br />research and study. <br /> <br />That part of the 9,920 acres of seedling- <br />sapling-pole size timber which is on oper- <br />able terrain and which became accessible <br />would be available for consideration for <br />harvest and continued production. <br /> <br />Commercial timber sites of suitable site <br />quality, within 2,155 acres of deforested <br />land, could be planted. <br /> <br />Minerals <br /> <br />Prospecting and the operation of unpat- <br />ented mining claims would continue under <br />the provisions of Secretary of Agriculture <br />Regulations in Part 251 of Title 36, Code <br />of Federal Regulations, Sections 251.81 <br />through 251.84 until December 31, 1983. <br />Subject to valid rights then existing, effec- <br />tive January 1, 1984, the minerals would <br />be withdrawn from all forms of appro- <br />priation. <br /> <br />Prospecting and the development of <br />minerals would continue under existing <br />mining laws. <br /> <br />Structures and Activities <br /> <br />Structures and improvements could not <br />be constructed unless they were necessary <br />for the administration or protection of the <br />wilderness resource. <br /> <br />Special use permits would be limited to <br />those authorj.zed by the Wilderness Act. <br />, ,," <br />> <br />., ")' <br /> <br />Structures and improvements could be <br />constructed according to approved man- <br />agement plans. <br /> <br />Special use permits, easements. li- <br />censes, etc. could be issued according to <br />normal Forest Service policies. <br /> <br />18 <br />