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This section includes forest planning, current projects, information about resource management, and available geospatial data. Here is how land and resources management information is organized in this section:
The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA), as amended by the National Forest Management Act (NFMA), establishes a process for developing, amending, and revising land management plans for units of the National Forest System.
Look here for planning documents that guide how the national forest is managed. The focus is at a broad scale: regional, forest-wide, or landscape (watershed) level. The Cleveland National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, forest plan monitoring reports, and other assessments and planning documents are available.
Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the environmental effects of a proposed activity on National Forest or other federal lands must first be analyzed, with opportunity for public comment, before a decision is made on whether or not to undertake that activity.
Find information here about specific projects that the Cleveland National Forest is evaluating, planning, or actively implementing.
The Forest Service manages the national forests for a number of multiple uses, including recreation, timber, wilderness, minerals, water, grazing, fish, and wildlife.
Follow the link above for more information about how these resources are managed on the Cleveland National Forest.
Geospatial data are georeferenced, or spatially explicit, digital files that can be used in a GIS (Geographic Information System). Click on the link above to view and download geospatial data for Pacific Southwest Region of the USFS, including the Cleveland National Forest.
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