Sentences with phrase «wilderness study area»

The BLM portion of Browns Canyon includes the Browns Canyon Wilderness Study Area, officially recognized in 1993.

The BLM seeks public comment on a proposal to recommend the Browns Canyon area as a Wilderness Study Area.

Browns Canyon National Monument, including the Wilderness Study Area, helps produce clean water by protecting watersheds, provides critical wildlife habitat, maintains biological diversity, offers outdoor recreation opportunities, provides scenic beauty and serves as a spiritual or psychological haven from modern day pressures.

A BLM Wilderness Study Area and an adjacent U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area offer only interim protections for 20,000 acres of wilderness - quality terrain.

The act directs the agency to inventory its lands and identify areas with certain characteristics as wilderness study areas, areas that Congress would then designate as wilderness or open for other uses.

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Conservation groups challenge Bush - era «energy corridors» that threaten wilderness areas, including a long - term ecological study site

One of Africa's last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions, a University of Queensland - led study has found.

In this study, researchers analyzed hunting behaviors of mountain lions on the fringes of Denver and Boulder, Colorado, through the sprawling exurbia, and into the jagged wilderness areas along the Continental Divide.

«We demonstrate alarming losses comprising one - tenth (3.3 million km2) of global wilderness areas over the last two decades, particularly in the Amazon (30 percent) and central Africa (14 percent),» researchers said in the study.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

The study, Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets, can be found in Current Biology.