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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

US Forest Service - George Washington and Jefferson National Forest
Last Modified: Friday, 11 December 2009 at 10:11:18 EST