How is the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act considered in the plan?
The Wild and Scenic River Act requires all federal agencies to consider the potential for national wild, scenic and recreational river areas during land use planning. BLM does this by following a process to determine eligibility, suitability, and tentative classifications for potentially eligible rivers identified during planning. For more information on Wild and Scenic Rivers, visit http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/wild_and_scenic_rivers.html. In the preferred alternative BLM considers the following as being suitable for Congressional designation into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System: 122 miles of the Green River as “scenic” and 101 miles of the Green River (between Desolation and Labyrinth canyons) and the San Rafael River (through the Swell) as “recreational.” Segments of the Green River were considered for their outstanding remarkable values of cultural, historic, recreation, scenic, geology, fish, wildlife, paleontology, and ecology. Segments of the San
