FORM 1
DOCUMENTATION OF BLM WILDERNESS INVENTORY
FINDINGS ON RECORD
Year: 2010
Inventory Unit Number/Name: Bell Rim Area
1. Is there existing BLM wilderness inventory information on all or part of
this area?
No
Yes _X_ (if more than one unit is within the area, list the names/numbers
of those units.): NA
a) Inventory Source: Wilderness Proposed Initial Inventory: Roadless Areas
and Islands Which Clearly Do Not Have Wilderness Characteristics, Oregon
and Washington, April 1979, pages 7-8. and Wilderness Review: Initial
Inventory, Final Decisions on Public Lands Obviously Lacking Wilderness
Characteristics and Announcement of Public Lands to be Intensively
Inventoried for Wilderness Characteristics, Oregon and Washington, August
1979, pages 15-16.
b) Inventory Unit Name(s)/Number(s): OR-015-018
c) Map Name(s)/Number(s): _U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management, Oregon: Final Decision, Initial Wilderness Inventory; Public
Lands and Islands Which Do Not Have Wilderness Characteristics and Units to
be Intensively Inventoried, August, 1979.
d) BLM District(s)/Field Office(s):_Lakeview District, Lakeview Resource
Area, Lakeview, Oregon_
2. BLM Inventory Findings on Record:
Existing inventory information regarding wilderness characteristics (if more than one
BLM inventory unit is associated with the area, list each unit and answer each question
individually for each inventory unit):
Ownership
Size
(historic
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Natural
Condition?
Y/N
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(-)5,000
NA
Outstanding Outstanding Supplemental
Solitude?
Primitive & Values?
Y/N
Unconfined Y/N
Recreation?
Y/N
NA
NA
N/A
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FORM 2
DOCUMENTATION OF CURRENT WILDERNESS INVENTORY
CONDITIONS
a. Unit Number/Name: Bell Rim Area
(1)
Is the unit of sufficient size?
Yes ____
No __X___
Boundary Determination: In 2006 thru 2010, the BLM conducted field inventory of the
area to update its road and wilderness inventories. This field work included photo
documentation of the potential unit boundary routes. Using BLM photos, field logs, and
staff field knowledge, a BLM inter-disciplinary (ID) team completed an analysis of the
motorized routes within the Bell Rim Area in September of 2010. The results of the
route analysis are documented in the route analysis forms contained in the wilderness
evaluation file.
The units in the Bell Rim Area are bounded by a combination of roads, private lands, and
right-of-ways. Units are bounded by County Roads; 5-10 (Fort Rock Road), 5-13
(Pitcher Lane), 5-13C (Peaceful Lane), 5-13B (Mattis Lane), 5-10C (Connley Lane),
BLM Roads; 6167-A0 (Schumaker), 6167-00 (Community Well), 6187-00 (Lasater
Reservoir), 6119-00 (Gubsher Well), 6119-A0 (Gualdin Well), 6157-00 (West Paulina),
6157-A0 (Black Hills), Bell Rim Road, two unnumbered roads, and State Highway 31
ROW. (Note: Refer to the road analysis forms, photos, photo logs, and BLM ID team
minutes in the wilderness inventory file for additional supporting information regarding
these boundary determinations).
Historically, one of the inventory units (1-18), located in the southern part of the Bell
Rim Area, met the minimum size requirement at 6,500 acres. In August, 1979 however, a
decision was made to eliminate the unit from further review, based on the determination
that the road running north to south through the middle of the unit (6157-A0) effectively
split it into two separate units each less than 5,000 acres, therefore not meeting the
minimum criteria for having wilderness character.
The Bell Rim Area contains approximately 33,198 acres of BLM-administered land and
5,200 acres of private in-holdings. Based on the current boundary determinations, there
are nineteen inventory units (Map 2). After doing area calculations, the BLM found that
all nineteen of these units are under the minimum 5,000 acres size requirement.
The average size of a unit within the Bell Rim Area is approximately 1747 acres. None
of these units lie immediately adjacent to areas currently managed for wilderness/road
less character or meet any of the other exceptions to the size requirements. Based on
these unit boundaries and size determinations, there was no need for the BLM ID team to
evaluate these units further. Additional background on the process that the BLM ID team
followed during this evaluation is contained in the document, Wilderness Inventory
Maintenance Process for the Lakeview Resource Area, BLM contained in the wilderness
inventory file.
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DESCRIPTION OF CURRENT CONDITIONS:
The Bell Rim Area is located four miles northwest of Silver Lake, Oregon
(Map 1). The terrain consists of low hills and broken rims. The vegetation
consists of big sagebrush and scattered juniper.
(2) Is the unit in a natural condition? Yes ____
No __ __
N/A _X___
Previous Inventory Unit Description: The natural character within this area was not
described in the previous inventory due to the units failing to meet the size criteria.
Current Condition Description: The natural character within this area was not
evaluated because the units still fail to meet the size criteria.
(3) Does the unit have outstanding opportunities for solitude?
Yes____
No ____
N/A __X___
Previous Inventory Unit Description: The solitude opportunity within the area was not
described in the previous inventory due to the units failing to meet the size criteria.
Current Condition Description: Current solitude opportunities were not evaluated
because the units still fail to meet the size criteria.
(4) Does the unit have outstanding opportunities for primitive and unconfined
recreation? Yes ____
No ____
N/A _X___
Previous Inventory Unit Description: The primitive recreation opportunity within the
area was not described in the previous inventory due to the units failing to meet size
criteria.
Current Condition Description: Current recreation opportunities were not evaluated
because the units still fail to meet the size criteria.
(5) Does the unit have supplemental values? Yes ____ No ____NA _X_
Previous Inventory Unit Description: This area was not evaluated for supplemental
values during the previous inventory.
Current Condition Description: Supplemental values were not evaluated during the
current inventory as the units still fail to meet size criteria.
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Summary of Findings and Conclusion
Unit Name and Number: Bell Rim Area
Summary Results of Analysis:
1. Do the areas meet the size requirements?
_ Yes _X__No
2. Do the areas appear to be natural?
___ Yes ___No__X__ N/A
3. Do the areas offer outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and
unconfined type of recreation?
___Yes ___ No__X__ N/A
4. Do the areas have supplemental values?
___Yes ___No__X__ N/A
Conclusion (Check One):
_____ The area, or a portion of the areas, have wilderness character.
___ X The areas do not have wilderness character.
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