NFEPA - Table 3

TABLE 3
WESTERN ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION AREAS
ACREAGE INFORMATION
State	Ecosystem Protection Areas	Core Areas Total Acreage	Core Areas Acreage Grazed	Acquisition Area Acreage
Total		18,238,445	2,281,101	39,376

Alaska	2. Misty Fiords (several areas)	2,142,907		523
Arizona	3. Mazatzal 4. Blue Range (also in New Mexico) Blue Range Primitive Area 5. Chiricuahua	252,494 175,112 87,700	151,404 152,156 87,700	104 1,350 0
California	7. High Sierra John Muir Golden Trout Ansel Adams Emigrant Dome Land South Sierra Hoover Monarch Dinkey Lakes Cooperative Management Yosemite National Park Seguoia National Park Kings Canyon National Park Domeland Wilderness BLM 8. Trinity Alps	1,506,908 581,143 305,464 230,260 112,338 93,861 60,324 48,622 44,896 30,000 512,100	78,012 1,001 20,611 6,400 30,500 5,500 3,000 11,000 - - 13,750	3,177 820 1,953 2 61 80 240 21 0 0 14,959
Colorado	9. Weminuche 10. West Elk 11. South San Juan	492,418 176,412 158,790	84,255 90,000 80,000	4,208 0 0
Idaho	15. Central Idaho Massif Frank Church-River of No Return Selway Bitterroot (also in Montana) Gospel Hump 31. Hells Canyon (also in Oregon)	3,648,569 2,353,311 1,089,238 206,000 84,100	197,977 166,777 - 31,200 6,200	7,890 7,435 221 234 289
Montana	22. Montana Rockies Bob Marshal Great Bear Scapegoat Cooperative Management Glacier National Park 15. Central Idaho Massif Selway Bitterroot (also in Idaho) 45. Yellowstone Absaroka-Beartooth (also in Wyoming) Lee Metcalf (in several parcels)	1,535,992 1,000,356 286,700 236,936 251,443 1,171,762 921,465 250,297	5,553 5,553 - - - 157,825 110,025 47,800	0 0 0 0 0 3,131 1,122 2,009
Nevada	23. Arc Dome	115,000	10,000	0
New Mexico	27. Gila Gila Aldo Leapold 4. Blue Range (also in Arizona)	760,081 558,065 202,016 29,304	487,016 285,000 202,016 29,304	51 51 0 0
Oregon	31. Hells Canyon (also in Idaho) Hells Canyon Eagle Cap	482,863 131,133 351,730	90,340 79,919 10,421	2,307 1,038 1,269
Utah	38. High Uintas	456,705	117,000	0
Washington	42. North Cascade Glacier Peak Pasayten Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Mount Baker Noisy Diobsud Cooperative Management North Cascade National Park Ross Lake National Recreation Area Lake Chelan National Recreation Area	1,386,314 572,738 530,031 151,564 117,848 14,133	147,029 60 78,769 68,200 - -	849 400 0 129 320 0
Wyoming	45. Yellowstone Washakie Teton North Absaroka Absaroka-Beartooth (also in Montana) Winegar Hole Jedediah Smith Cooperative Management Yellowstone National Park Grand Teton National Park Rockefeller National Parkway 46. Wind River Bridger Fitzpatrick Popo Agie	1,797,457 704,822 585,238 350,488 23,283 10,715 123,451 728,482 428,087 198,525 101,870	188,550 112,850 10,300 36,400 3,000 - 26,000 107,030 68,000 11,478 27,552	548 548 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Western United States	Twenty Ecosystem Protection Areas in Twelve Western States	18,238,445	2,281,101	39,376

There are twenty-six other Ecosystem Protection areas in twenty-one eastern States.

Source: Existing core areas are existing Wilderness Areas from Land Areas of the National Forests in 1997. Grazing statistics are from the Regional Offices of the National Forest Service in 1996.