Bureau of Land Management Agency Resources

Wilderness

Law

• Wilderness Act
• Other laws

Regulations and Policy

• BLM Wilderness Management Regulations (43 CFR 6300)
• BLM Manual 6340 "Management of Designated Wilderness Areas"
• Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Designation Process

Program Initiatives and Aids

Interagency Vision and Strategic Planning Documents

• 2020 Vision
• 1995 Interagency Wilderness Strategic Plan

Monitoring

• Interagency Vision and Strategic Planning Documents

Wilderness Management Topics

Fundamentals of Wilderness Management

Training

• Classroom
• Online
• Webinars
• Technical Core Competencies

Wilderness Study Areas

Regulation and Policy

• BLM Manual 6330 "Management of Wilderness Study Areas"

Programs and Initiatives and Aids

• How Do We Manage?: Managing Wildernesses vs. BLM WSAs
  This narrated Power Point (38.4 MB .pptx) file briefly describes some fundamental differences in the way the BLM manages its Wilderness Study Areas versus how it manages Wilderness Areas. It is about 27 minutes long and, depending on the speed of your Internet connection, may take a while to download.

Lands with Wilderness Characteristics

Regulations and Policy

BLM Manual 6310 - Conducting Wilderness Characteristics Inventory on BLM Lands

• Full document
• Appendix A - Permanent Documentation File
• Appendix B - Inventory Area Evaluation
• Appendix C - Route Analysis Form
• Appendix D - Photo Log

BLM Manual 6320 - Considering Lands with Wilderness Characteristics in the BLM Land Use Planning Process

• Full document

Program Initiatives and Aids

• Flowchart: LWCs and Proposed Projects

Training

Text-based PowerPoint Training

Date of last revision 2012/08/22, overview revision 2013/03/17.

• Overview
• I-A: How the Training Modules Work
• I-B: IM & 5 Misconceptions
• II-A: Inventory Procedures - Background
• II-B: Inventory Procedures - Route Analysis and Boundary Identification
• II-C: Inventory Procedures - Size
• II-D: Inventory Procedures - Naturalness
• II-E: Inventory Procedures - Outstanding Opportunities & Supplemental Values
• II-F: Inventory Procedures - Boundary Adjustments & LWC Documentation
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  III-A: Planning - Background to LWCs in Planning
• III-B: Planning - Factors to Consider When Protecting LWCs
• III-C: Planning - Placing LWCs in the Land Use Planning Process
• III-D: Planning - LWCs and Proposed Projects

Alaska Text-based PowerPoint Training

• II-A: Inventory Procedures - Background
• II-B: Inventory Procedures - Route Analysis and Boundary Identification
• II-C: Inventory Procedures - Size
• II-D: Inventory Procedures - Naturalness
• II-E: Inventory Procedures - Outstanding Opportunities & Supplemental Values
• II-F: Inventory Procedures - Boundary Adjustments & LWC Documentation
• III-A: Planning - Background to LWCs in Planning
• III-B: Planning - Factors to Consider When Protecting LWCs
• III-C: Planning - Placing LWCs in the Land Use Planning Process
• III-D: Planning - LWCs and Proposed Projects