PROPOSAL FOR NON-WILDERNESS TRAIL CORRIDORS

Using Cache Creek as example

Sec. 101. Designation of Wilderness

(a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, the following public lands in the State of California are hereby designated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:

(71) Certain lands in the Ukiah Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management which comprise approximately 45,434 acres as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Cache Creek Wilderness Area—Proposed’’, dated May 2002, and which shall be known as the Cache Creek Wilderness, provided, that:

(a) Trail corridors

i. Within the Cache Creek Wilderness Area, there are hereby established non-Wilderness trail corridors along the Red Bud Trail and Judge Davis Trails.

ii. The corridors shall extend 300 feet in each direction from the centerline of the trail. The Red Bud Trail corridor shall extend from _______ to _______. The Judge Davis corridor shall extend from _______ to _______.

iii. Motorized travel shall not be permitted within the corridors except where necessary for administrative purposes or to respond to an emergency. At all times, mechanized, non-motorized travel shall be permitted within the corridor.

iv. Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the corridor are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amendments thereto.

v. No timber harvesting shall be allowed within the corridor except to the extent that would be permitted in wilderness under section 1133(d)(1) of this title for necessary control of fire, insects, and diseases, and for public safety.

vi. After the date of enactment of this Act, no new roads, bridges, tunnels, or dams may be constructed or established within the corridor. Subject to valid existing rights, no structure or buildings of any sort may be constructed within the corridor.