Land Use Planning and Oil and Gas Leasing on Onshore Federal Lands (1989) / Chapter Skim
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7 Areas of the Greatest Conflict in Values
7 Areas of the Greatest Conflict in Values
Pages 106-112
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Thus any significant and relatively lasting disturbance, such as road building, that usually accompanies oil and gas exploration, tends to disqualify an area (although Congress can choose to overlook previous disturbances)
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The principal reasons underlying the controversy are the size of the wilderness study tracts, the sharpness of the conflict of values between wilderness advocates and those who want to extract the mineral resources of the area, and the location of a number of these roadless lands in areas where the oil and gas industry has high interest. The practice of Congress in recent years has been to consider wilderness designation on a statewide basis for each federal land management agency.
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. The permissive character of this legislative approach allows the agency to decide, prior to the following planning cycle, against oil and gas leasing for any supportable reason, such as protecting wildlife habitat or the area's potential for eventual designation as wilderness.
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The net effect of this congressional practice is to make the planning process the focal point for future wilderness evaluations. Prom that process will emerge decisions whether these undesignated wilderness candidate areas are to be managed in a way that retains their potential for wilderness designation or are instead made available for oil and gas leasing.
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The Endangered Species Act generally mandates full protection for species that are formally listed as threatened or endangered, but identifying the critical habitat and specifying the measures necessary for full protection are often tasks that the agencies' land and resource planning process must address. ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT 1 Concerns are also emerging about what some call ``ecosystem management,9, and the fact that jurisdictional and management lines do not follow ecosystem boundaries.
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~ be sure, the planning process often addresses conflicts among values and land management goals, but wilderness in particular tends to pose conflicts of a more fundamental character, on which opportunities for compromise may be limited. Wilderness character may be prized for its own sake, in addition to serving other ends like watershed and wildlife protection, and providing some forms of recreation.
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It is not clear whether the same can be said about the other issues discussed wildlife concerns and ecosystem management that may at times resemble wilderness conflicts in their effects on oil and gas leasing and the planning process. These questions pose more ongoing problems of management.
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