§460vv–8 Indian Nations National Scenic and Wildlife Area

Summary

The law creates the Indian Nations National Scenic and Wildlife Area inside the Ouachita National Forest to protect and improve key scenery and wildlife. The area follows the boundaries shown on a March 1988 map. The Secretary of Agriculture must file that map and a legal description with the House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and on Agriculture, and with the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, as soon as practicable after October 18, 1988. The filed map and description count the same as if they were written into the law, and small clerical mistakes may be fixed. A copy must be kept for the public at the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service. The Secretary must run the area under the same rules that apply to national forests, always aiming to protect the scenery and wildlife named above. Any work that would hurt the views from Talimena Drive or Holson Valley Road is not allowed. Timber work must favor a mixed hardwood and conifer forest with different ages and species, and must keep trees that make food and shelter for wildlife. Managers should use uneven-aged logging, but they may use even-aged cuts when needed for public safety, to fight fire, insects, or disease, or when the cuts are hidden behind natural barriers so they do not spoil the views.