Limits of Acceptable Change

Vegetation located below the crown level of forest trees which can carry fire from the forest floor to tree crowns. Ladder fuels may be low-growing tree branches, shrubs, or smaller trees.

The topographic relief of a unit of land. Land classes are separated by slope; this coincides with the timber inventory process. The three land classes used in the Forest Plan are defined by the following slope ranges: 0 to 35 percent; 36 to 55 percent; and greater than 55 percent.

The identification in a land use plan of the activities and foreseeable development that are allowed, restricted, or excluded for all or part of the planning area based on desired future conditions.

A set of decisions that establish management direction for land within an administrative area as prescribed under the planning provisions of FLPMA; an assimilation of land-use and plan-level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600 regardless of the scale at which the decisions were developed.

Establishes desired outcomes and actions needed to achieve them. Decisions are reached using the planning process in 43 CFR 1600. When they are presented to the public as proposed decisions they can be protested to the BLM Director. They are not appealable to IBLA.

The process of organizing the use of lands and their resources to best meet people's needs over time according to the land's capabilities.

The entire collection of land use plan decisions resulting from RMP, MFPs planning analyses, the adoption of other agency plans or any other type of plan where land use-plan-level decisions are reached.

Any place where cut timber is assembled for further transport from the timber sale area.

The boundary lines for National Forest land.