The document discusses different types of public lands in the US managed for various purposes. It describes national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, and wild and scenic rivers. These lands make up 35% of the US and are managed by several federal agencies for goals like conservation, recreation, resource use, and preserving ecosystems and biodiversity. Restrictions on uses vary between types of lands from multiple uses in forests to limited activities in national parks and wilderness areas.

1. Sustaining
Ecosystems:
For ests,
Rangelands, Par ks
and W ilder ness

2. First national park in
the world: Yellowstone

3. Public Lands in the US
 35% of land belongs to federal
government
 Large percentage in Alaska
 60% of this land is in the western US

4. Multiple-Use Lands
1. National Forest System
 156 Forests
 20 Grasslands
 Logging, mining, livestock grazing, farming,
oil and gas extraction, recreation, sport
hunting and fishing and commercial fishing,
conservation of watershed, soil, wildlife
 Managed by the US Forest Service
 Principle of sustainable yield
 Principle of multiple use

5. More multi-use lands
2. National Resource Lands
 Managed by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM)
 Provides secure domestic supply of energy
and strategic minerals
 Preserves rangelands for livestock grazing
under a permit system

6. Red Rock Canyon
National Forest

7. Bureau of Land
Management

8. Moderately Restricted-
Use Lands
 National Wildlife Refuges
 508 refuges, containing 95 million acres
 Managed by the US Fish and Wildlife
Service (Department of the Interior)
 Most protect habitats for waterfowl and big
game for hunters
 Other uses such as sport hunting, trapping,
sport and commercial fishing, oil and gas
development, mining, logging, grazing, and
farming permitted (if deemed compatible)

9. Montezuma Wildlife
Refuge, New York

10. Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

11. National Refuge
System

12. Bryce Canyon National
Park
Hoodoos at sunrise
Bristlecone Pine – longest
lived species on earth

13. Restricted-Use Lands
1. National Park System
 Managed by the National Park Service
 Includes parks, recreational areas,
monuments, memorials, battlefields, historic
sites, parkways, trails, rivers, seashores,
and lakeshores.
 Parks allow camping, hiking, fishing, and
boating
 Recreational areas also allow hunting,
mining, and oil and gas drilling

14. Everglades National
Park

15. Zion National Park

16. Giant Sequoias at
Kings Canyon National
Park

17. Sequoia
National
Park

18. Restricted-Use Lands
2. National Wilderness Preservation System
 Roadless areas
 Within National Parks, National Wildlife
Refuges, and National Forests
 Managed by the National Park Service, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S.
Forest Service
 Goal is to leave these areas “unimpaired” for
future use and enjoyment as wilderness”
 Allows hiking, sport fishing, camping, non-
motorized boating, some hunting and
horseback riding

19. Other preserves
 Adirondack Park
Preserve
 Private, non-profit
organizations
 The Nature
Conservancy

20. Adirondack Park
Preserve
View from Mt. Marcy
© 2002 Gary Randorf. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

21. Adirondack Park
Preserve West Branch of
Ausable River
© 2002 Gary Randorf. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
National Geographic Article: The Adirondack Park

22. The Nature
Conservancy
Chaumont Preserve,
NY

23. The Nature
Conservancy
Thousand Acre Swamp

24. Wild and Scenic Rivers
• National System protects 12,598 miles of 203
rivers in 38 states and Puerto Rico (2011)
 This is one-quarter of 1% of the nation's rivers
 By comparison, more than 75,000 large dams
across the country have modified at least
600,000 miles, or about 17%, of American
rivers.

25. Rivers are classified as
wild, scenic, or
recreational.
 Wild river areas — Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free
of impoundments and generally inaccessible except by trail, with
watersheds or shorelines essentially primitive and waters
unpolluted. These represent vestiges of primitive America.
 Scenic river areas — Those rivers or sections of rivers that are
free of impoundments, with shorelines or watersheds still largely
primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in
places by roads.
 Recreational river areas — Those rivers or sections of rivers that
are readily accessible by road or railroad, that may have some
development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone
some impoundment or diversion in the past.

26. Four Federal Agencies
 Bureau of Land Management
 National Park Service
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 U.S. Forest Service

27. Alagnak River, Alaska
 http://www.rivers.gov/wildriverslist.html