§460nnn–23 Land use authorities

Summary

The Secretary will only allow uses of the Cooperative Management and Protection Area that help meet its goals. No commercial timber harvest is allowed. Trees may be removed only if clearly needed for ecological restoration or public safety, and their sale is allowed except in the Wilderness Area and the wilderness study areas named in section 460nnn–64(a). The Secretary must work to restore the area's historic fire patterns and native plants by managing Western Juniper across the landscape, using natural and prescribed burns. Hunting, fishing, and trapping are allowed under U.S. and Oregon laws, but after talking with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife the Secretary may set zones or times when those activities are closed for safety, management, or public use. BLM grazing rules apply unless this law says otherwise. The Secretary must cancel permitted grazing inside the “no livestock grazing area” shown on the map in section 460nnn–11(a) for the Fish Creek/Big Indian, East Ridge, and South Steens allotments, and future grazing there is banned. The law reallocates certain pastures and 800 animal unit months exactly as named to specific ranches (O’Keefe to Stafford Ranches; Fields Seeding and Bone Creek Pasture east of the county road to Amy Ready; Miners Field Pasture, Schouver Seeding and Bone Creek Pasture west of the county road to Roaring Springs Ranch; 800 animal unit months in Crows Nest to Lowther (Clemens) Ranch). The Secretary must install fencing and water systems needed for those changes. New facilities on Federal lands are allowed only if they are minimal, fit the area’s purposes, and are needed for environmental protection, public information/health/safety, livestock management, or managing recreation (not promoting it). Subject to valid existing rights, the lands are withdrawn from public land entry, appropriation, or disposal, except for land exchanges the Secretary certifies to Congress further the goals in section 460nnn–12.