. Canon City District wilderness planning amendment. Wilderness areas; Land use. Range improvement projects (pinon-juniper thinning), off-road vehicle use, and firewood harvest would be permitted. Impacts resulting from these actions would affect solitude, naturalness, and primitive recreation values in the long term on approximately 11 percent of this unit. Mining would adversely affect wilderness values, however, cursory inventories have found little potential for development. By applying the recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) to this unit, 65 percent of the WSA falls into the semiprimiti
. Canon City District wilderness planning amendment. Wilderness areas; Land use. Range improvement projects (pinon-juniper thinning), off-road vehicle use, and firewood harvest would be permitted. Impacts resulting from these actions would affect solitude, naturalness, and primitive recreation values in the long term on approximately 11 percent of this unit. Mining would adversely affect wilderness values, however, cursory inventories have found little potential for development. By applying the recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) to this unit, 65 percent of the WSA falls into the semiprimitive motorized and roaded natural category. Generally this unit is very typical of southern Colorado and is not considered to contain quality wilderness characteristics. Alternative C - Partial Wilderness Designation - I This alternative would include approximately 15,200 acres to be recommended for wilderness designation. Boundary adjustments would make this unit more manageable and would orait two patented mining inholdings, a telephone right-of-way along Highway 50, and a potential firewood sale area along the southern boundary. Alternative D - Partial Wilderness Designation - II Since no resource conflicts nor manageability problems would be changed by a logical boundary adjustment, no Alternative D was studied for this unit. LOWER GRAPE CREEK (CO050-014) Alternative A - All Wilderness Designation Little extensive mineral exploration has been done in this unit, however, there has recently been considerable interest in exploration and possible development of base and precious metals. A wilderness designation could restrict access to 67 mining claims and 75 acres of non-Federal inholdings. This alternative would restrict back-country vehicle use by 100 annual recreation days. Wilderness values would be preserved. Alternative B - No Wilderness Designation (No Action) (Preferred Alternative) Under this alternative development of the mineral potential in this WSA would not be
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