Environmentally Sensitive Areas

Description: Map of Land Access: Environmentally Sensitive Areas sub-attribute. This map represents an activity level of E, with a weighting factor of 3 in the summary Land Access attribute map.

Score Description:

• A Not located in an environmentally sensitive area. 2-3 month staff review.
• B Manageable environmental sensitivities (recreational, geologic, wildlife or scenic value) 3-6 month staff review
• C Environmentally sensitive area complications (Waters of the United States) 6 - 12 month staff resolution. / Flag
• D Difficult environmentally sensitive area complications (Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Wildlife Refuge, National Preserves) Not likely to resolve, 1-2 years or longer if resolution possible. / No-Go
• E Extreme environmentally sensitive area complications (National Park, National Monument, wilderness areas or wilderness study areas, USFS inventoried roadless areas*, private conservation land) Not likely to be resolved, 2+ years / Unallowed

*The 2001 USFS Roadless Rule prohibits on road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System (USFS 2001).