BLM OR LWC Inventory Polygon Hub

LWC_INVNTRY_POLY: This feature dataset represents the spatial extent and boundaries of inventoried and managed BLM Lands with Wilderness Characteristics. This dataset also also provides BLM and the public with information about naturalness, opportunities for solitude and/or primitive recreation, supplemental values and proximity to Wilderness Areas or Wilderness Study Areas.

BLM Inventoried Lands with Wilderness Characteristics is consistent with Section 201 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which requires the BLM Colorado Inventoried Lands with Wilderness Characteristics is consistent with Section 201 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which requires the Secretary of the Interior to “prepare and maintain on a continuing basis an inventory of all public lands and their resource and other values,” and the BLM Land Use Planning Handbook, BLM Colorado has identified and begun an assessment of BLM-managed lands with wilderness characteristics outside of existing WSAs. BLM Manual 6310 - Conducting Wilderness Characteristics Inventory on BLM Lands, provides the guidance from which BLM performs the wilderness characteristic inventory process.