Mt. Leidy Highlands/Wind River Range Corridor:
Seven Lakes ..........................................................
59,613
Bridger-Teton/Shoshone
National Forests
Total ..............................................
(a) 59,613
Total ..............................................
(b) 103,680
Corridor Total ...............................
(a) 4,841,378
Corridor Total ......................................................
(b) 2,513,586
(2) DESIGNATION AS WILDERNESS LANDS AND
SPECIAL CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT AREAS.—
(A) ROADLESS
LANDS
DESIGNATED
AS
WILDERNESS.—The roadless areas identified as
part of the biological connecting corridors on
the maps referred to in paragraph (1) and the
areas described on such maps as wilderness are
hereby designated as wilderness and as compo-
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation
System.
(B) SPECIAL
CORRIDOR
MANAGEMENT
AREAS.—Those portions of the biological con-
necting corridors that are identified on the
maps referred to in paragraph (1)(A) and that
are not designated as components of the Na-
tional Wilderness Preservation System are here-
by designated as special corridor management
areas. The portions shall be managed in the fol-
lowing manner:
(i) The practice of even-aged silvicul-
tural management and timber harvesting is
hereby prohibited on the portions.
(ii) Mining, oil, and gas exploration
and development and new road construc-
tion or reconstruction is hereby prohibited
with regard to the portions.
(iii) The Federal land management
agencies responsible for said lands shall
take immediate steps to ensure that road
densities within the biological connecting
corridors approach, as nearly as possible,
zero miles of road per square mile of land
area. Such road density shall not exceed
0.25 miles per square mile.
(c) APPLICABILITY OF SECTION.—The provisions of
this section shall apply only to lands under the jurisdiction
of the United States Forest Service, the Bureau of Land
Management, and the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service. No private landowner shall, under any cir-
cumstances, be compelled to comply with the provisions
of this section. However, private landowners may enter
into cooperative agreements with the Federal Government
on a willing participant or willing seller basis.
(d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND LAND TRADES
AND ACQUISITIONS.—
(1) COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENTS.—The Sec-
retaries of Interior and Agriculture are hereby di-
rected to seek and enter into cooperative agreements
with private, State, and corporate landowners and
sovereign Indian tribes to ensure that portions of the
biological connecting corridors designated by this
section that are located within the ownership of such
landowners or tribes shall be managed in a manner
similar to that required by this Act for lands within
the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service,
Bureau of Land Management, and United States
Fish and Wildlife Service.
(2) LAND
TRADES
AND
ACQUISITIONS.—The
Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the In-
terior, as the case may be, shall, when such Sec-
retary deems such action to be appropriate, seek to
accomplish land trades or acquisitions in order to
accomplish the purposes of this section.
(3) REPORT.—As part of the report required by
section 10(a), the Secretaries of Agriculture and the
Interior shall submit a report on the progress of co-
operative agreements, acquisitions, and proposed
land exchanges sought pursuant to this section.
(e) EXEMPTION
OF CERTAIN ROADS
AND HIGH-
WAYS.—The roads and highways referred to in this sub-
section are hereby expressly exempted from the provisions
of this section. The roads and highways referred to in this