USDA FS Inventoried Roadless Areas in New Mexico, Sept. 2000

This dataset contains all National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs)
for New Mexico. The IRA data was originally submitted to GSTC by all national
forests through their Regional Offices for the Forest Service's Roadless Area
Conservation Initiative. Unknown The data was consolidated at the GSTC and used in
the Draft Environment Impact Statement. Between the draft and final stages of the
Environmental Impact Statement, the data was updated by the forests to reflect any
corrections to Inventoried Roadless Areas that were based on their existing forest
plan. The data was also supplemented to include Special Designated Area information
and to include Inventoried Roadless Areas within Special Designated Areas. The data
was resubmitted to the GSTC on July 21, 2000 for consolidation and the completed
coverage was used in the Roadless Area Conservation Final Environmental Impact
Statement. Unknown IRAs are based on completed forest plans, forest plans in
revision where the agency has established an inventory (this information should be
available in Appendix C of most forest plans), or other assessments that are
completed and adopted by the agency. RARE II information was used in cases where a
forest does not have a more current roadless inventory, which was established using
RARE II information.