Mining claims, Mineral leases, permits, licenses, mineral reservations and rights outstanding, reclamation, mineral materials, Forest Service authorized prospecting and mineral collecting, geologic resources, certification
This is a report on the preliminary eligibility and classification determinations resulting from a comprehensive state-wide inventory of potentially eligible rivers for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Evaluations of efficiency are one of the basic types of economic and social analysis and are an integral part of the planning process at the national, regional, and National Forest levels. Economic efficiency evaluations are required for project selection, functional planning, integrated planning, and budget preparation (FSM 1970.3).
The American people are concerned about the quality of their visual environment. Because of this concern, it has become appropriate to establish the "visual landscape" as a basic resource, to be "treated as an essential part of and receive equal consideration with the other basic resources of the land" (FSM 2380).
Sonoran scrub oak grows in semiarid, lower elevation chaparral, pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.), shrub deserts, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa) and riparian communities of the Southwest.
The abundance of tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima and related species) along the San Pedro and Gila River flood plains varies with differences in stream flow regimes.
Predicting the potential behavior and effects of wildland fire is an essential task in fire management. Mathematical surface fire behavior and fire effects models and prediction systems are driven in part by fuelbed inputs such as load, bulk density, fuel particle size, heat content, and moisture of extinction.
This document shows, by phase, where the 2012 Rule specifies public participation, outreach, and collaboration with minority and low-income populations, referred to collectively in this document as “environmental justice populations.”
