Bureau of Land Management BLM Utah--Utah Wilderness Review

Facts and Figures 1997

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Utah Wilderness Review

	Acreage	Units	% of BLM lands in Utah
Statewide BLM Lands Initially Inventoried)	20,064,748	871	91%
Intensive Inventory Areas (As a result of eliminating areas that obviously and clearly lacked wilderness character)	5,417,510	169	25%
Wilderness Study Areas (as a result of Intensive Inventory Findings)	3,258,250	95	15%
DOI's 1991 Wilderness Recommendation	1,958,339	69	9%

In addition, approximately 22,600 acres administered by the BLM in Utah were designated wilderness as part of the 1984 Wilderness Act for Arizona. This Act included approximately 20,000 acres in Paria Canyon in Utah and approximately 2,600 acres in the Beaver Dam Mountains in Utah. Also, BLM in 1993 identified a new WSA, Scotts Basin, at 6,990 acres.

Remaining Steps:

Congress has rceived BLM's wilderness recommendation from the Secretary of the Interior and the President. In the legislative phase of the wilderness review, there is no deadline or timetable for Congress to act; only Congress can designate areas as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System..

BLM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN SCHEDULE
(As of January 1998)
Expected Completion Dates

Plan	Resource Area	Draft RMP/EIS	Final EIS Proposed Plan	Final Plan
Dixie	Dixie	96	98	98
Henry Mountain	Henry Mountain	98	98	99

Bureau of Land Management
Utah State Office
PO Box 45155
Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155
Phone: (801) 539-4001
Fax: (801) 539-4013

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Last Updated: May 20, 2004

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