Land Tenure Adjustments

Objectives

Make land tenure adjustments to benefit a variety of uses and values. Emphasize opportunities that conserve biological diversity or enhance timber management opportunities. As a matter of practice, O&C forest lands allocated to timber management will only be exchanged for lands to be managed for multiple use purposes.

Meet the following objectives for the three land tenure adjustment zones:

Zone 1:		Generally, retain these lands under BLM administration.
Zone 2:		"Block up" areas in Zone 2 with significant resource values and exchange other lands in Zone 2 to "block up" areas in Zones 1 and 2 with significant resource values.
Zone 3:		Retain lands with unique resource values; dispose of other lands in this zone using appropriate disposal mechanisms.

Make BLM-administered lands in Zones 1, 2, and 3 available for a variety of uses as authorized by section 302 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, and special recreation permits. Leases and conveyances under the Recreation and Public Purpose Act will be made in Zones 2 and 3.

Manage newly acquired lands for the purpose for which they are acquired or consistent with the management objectives for adjacent BLM-administered lands. If lands with unique or fragile resource values are acquired, protect those values until the next plan revision.

Eliminate unauthorized use of BLM-administered land.

Land Use Allocations

Zone Acres

Zone 1		35,930
Zone 2		380,989
Zone 3		13,352

See Map 9 for location of land tenure zones.

See Appendix C for legal descriptions of Zone 3 lands.

Management Actions/Direction

Riparian Reserves

Use land acquisition, exchange, and conservation easements to meet Aquatic Conservation Strategy objectives and facilitate restoration of fish stocks and others species at risk of extinction.

Late-Successional Reserves

Consider land exchanges when they will provide benefits equal to or better than current conditions.

Consider land exchanges especially to improve area, distribution, and quality (e.g., connectivity, shape, and contribution to biodiversity) of Late-Successional Reserves and where public and private lands are intermingled.

All Land Use Allocations

Use the land tenure adjustment criteria shown in Appendix B when conducting environmental analyses for site specific proposals. Application of these criteria may result in retention of some zone 3 lands.

Maintain or increase public land holdings in Zone 1 by retaining public lands and acquiring nonfederal lands with high public resource values. The primary mode of acquisition will be through exchange of BLM-administered lands in Zones 2 and 3. Utilize purchases and donations if exchange is not feasible. All fee acquisitions will be with willing sellers.

Consult with county governments prior to any exchange involving O&C land.

Consider the effect of land tenure adjustments on the mineral estate. If the lands are not known to have mineral potential, or in an exchange if the mineral potential is deemed equal, the mineral estate will normally be transferred simultaneously with the surface estate.

Minimize impact on local tax base by emphasizing exchanges rather than fee purchase.

Make exchanges to enhance public resource values and/or improve land patterns and management capabilities of both private and BLM-administered land within the planning area by consolidating ownership and reducing the potential for land use conflict.

Consider transfer of Roseburg District BLM-administered land to other BLM districts or Federal agencies, or acquisition of other federal lands where consistent with public land management policy and where improved management efficiency would result.

Consider conveying the subsurface mineral interest owned by the United States to the existing or proposed owner of the surface estate consistent with FLPMA Section 209(b).

For all land Tenure Zones, sales of lands other than available commercial forest lands will be made to dispose of lands that meet criteria (1) or (2) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act Sec. 203(a), but sales of land that meet only criterion (3) will not be made.

Generally prohibit disposal of Zones 1 and 2 lands through sales under Section 203(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. Some sales may occur on a case-by-case basis. Zone 2 lands may be transferred to other public agencies or managed under some form of cooperative agreement. Zones 1 and 2 lands would generally remain under BLM administration.

Dispose of Zone 3 lands through sale under Section 203(a) of Federal Land Policy Management Act if no viable exchange proposals can be identified. Zone 3 lands could also be transferred to another Federal agency or state or local government as needed, to accommodate community expansion or other public purposes.

Where survey hiatuses and unintentional encroachments on public lands are discovered in the future which meet the disposal criteria, the lands may be automatically assigned Zone 3 for disposal.

Land Use Authorizations

Lease serial numbers ORe 05564, ORe 010734, OR 16775, OR 37065 and OR 37070, will be continued in accordance with the terms of each lease. A life estate residential lease (ORe 05564) will not be assigned at the end of its terms. Douglas County maintains Richard Baker County Park as a day use area. This 7.5 acre Recreation and Public Purpose lease, located within the Wild and Scenic River Corridor of the North Umpqua River, will be continued.

Temporary use permits, as identified under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act section 302, will be issued for a variety of uses such as, but not limited to apiary, stockpile and storage sites, and as a tool to authorize unintentional trespass situations pending final resolution.

No leases or permits will be issued for landfills or other waste disposal facilities and no leases will be issued for new residential construction. Leases or permits for other uses of public land or amendments to existing authorizations will be authorized if the use does not conflict with higher resource values.