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Potential Wilderness Area Inventory and Review

These documents describe the inventory and evaluation of Potential Wilderness Areas. 

Map of Potential Wilderness Areas

Guidance on How to Conduct the "Potential Wilderness Area Inventory" for the Revision tot the Revised George Washington National Forest Plan

Potential Wilderness Inventory

Current Forest Plan Management Areas within Potential Wilderness Areas

Potential Wilderness Area Evaluation DRAFT Sept 2008

Potential Wilderness Area Evaluation Tables DRAFT Sept 2008 (Excel spreadsheet)

Review of the Wilderness Society's "Virginia's Mountain Treasures: The Unprotected Wildlands of the George Washington National Forest"

Comprehensive Evaluation Report

Enclosed is our draft of the Comprehensive Evaluation Report (CER). The CER is designed to evaluate current trends in social, economic and ecological conditions. This Report is a review of the Forest’s progress towards achieving the desired conditions identified in the 1993 Forest Plan. We reviewed monitoring information in the context of the issues used in the development of the 1993 Forest Plan.

The CER is currently in draft form. It represents our first attempt at describing and evaluating the monitoring information to help determine what aspects of forest management might need to change. In many areas we have recommended changes based upon our review of the information.

Now we are requesting feedback from the public on our draft evaluation and our recommendations. The draft CER will hopefully provide a starting point for you to think about changes. From our collaboration at these workshops we will finalize the CER and identify the priority areas that we will address in future workshops as we revise the Forest Plan.

Comprehensive Evaluation Report Documents

Revised Forest Plan – Under Construction - 2009

Enclosed is the Forest Plan Set of Documents.  As documents are drafted (and revised) they will be posted here. 

Plan Documents and Maps

Proposed Forest Plan – Initial Working Copy Version 1 – February 2007

Enclosed is an initial version of the proposed Forest Plan for the George Washington National Forest. There is no requirement for an initial version of the proposed plan to be prepared at this early stage of the revision process. However, the new planning regulations have made substantial changes in the format and design of forest plans.

The Plan will be quite different from the current Forest Plan. It will be more strategic in nature; there will not be as much detail. It will not have management areas like the 1993 Forest Plan. It will have guidelines to help in project development rather than standards.

Since the plan will be quite different, we wanted to give some indication of what the revised plan will look like. We believe that this will help everyone as we go through the process. We want to emphasize that the purpose of the initial version is to provide some context for working through the revision process.

This initial version incorporates much of the 1993 Forest Plan along with some modifications that reflect new information from the Jefferson Forest Plan and some additional information developed during our drafting of the CER.

Plan Documents and Maps

US Forest Service - George Washington and Jefferson National Forest
Last Modified: Friday, 13 March 2009 at 14:53:04 EDT