Price Field Office Revisions to the 1999 Utah Wilderness Inventory

This document explains the revisions that have been made to the 1999 Utah Wilderness Inventory for the lands administered by the Price Field Office in east central Utah. Public lands with wilderness character, as identified in the inventory and the revisions described in this document, are the subject of study in the Price Resource Management Plan (RMP). This document also addresses questions and concerns that were raised during the initial scoping phase of the statewide wilderness study area (WSA) planning project that began in March of 1999.

Since the release of the 1999 Utah Wilderness Inventory in February 1999, and the initiation of statewide planning to determine if new WSAs should be designated, numerous changes to the inventory have been made. Some modifications are the result of improved mapping data and the correction of technical errors in the maps that were published in the 1999 Utah Wilderness Inventory. Other changes are due to the redrawing of wilderness inventory boundaries to eliminate state land sections located along the perimeter of inventory areas. Additional changes are the result of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field reevaluations of certain inventoried lands and vehicle routes following public comment.