Description: This dataset includes boulders within approximately 100-125 meters of S.R. 210 in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. It was created by the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance during the LCC DEIS phase in June 2021 to understand bouldering impacts of the alternatives and to assist with public outreach. Features were digitized from a georeferenced map (JPEG image) showing boulder footprints within 100-125 meters of the road. The range of distance from the road was due to the nature of the source map, which depicted boulders within 100 meters of the road but used a "fade" effect on the footprints at the edge of the buffer rather than a hard stop, resulting in some features being visible outside of the intended buffer range.Boulder names were mostly derived from the source map image, but in some cases different names were chosen if there was a discrepancy between the source map and existing climbing guidebooks or Mountain Project. Some boulders have multiple commonly-used names, so some discrepancies between name sources is expected.The field "HasClimbing" attempts to capture which boulders are known to be used for climbing recreation. The SLCA determined that not all boulder footprints shown in the source map have known climbing recreation, so this was an attempt to distinguish priority boulders from non-priority boulders. However, bouldering in the canyon is always changing, and boulders that are not indicated with this field may still be used by some recreationists for personal climbing projects, or may have been developed as climbing sites in the time since the last guidebook was created.
Copyright Text: Author: Michael Mason, GIS Specialist for the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance (mjmason801@gmail.com)
Date: 06/10/2021
Sources: The source digital map was provided to the SLCA by Scott Stoddard. The image was georeferenced, and features digitized, by the SLCA.
Description: The Wasatch-Cache NF 2003 Revised Forest Plan has divided the forest into management prescriptions or "zones", similar to city zoning. These prescription identify allowed activities and special factors based on the goals and needs or opportunities in an area.This layer was updated in 2018 due to an Administrative Change to the Forest Plan. In a letter dated August 31, 2018 the Forest Supervisor approved "an administrative change to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (WCNF FP) to correct the inaccurate delineation of Wilderness Management Prescriptions in the Henrys Fork and Beaver Creek watersheds and to correct the Wilderness Management Prescription (MP) of a small area of the Eastern Uinta Mountain Management Area to reflect the historic and current uses of the area in Henrys Fork drainage. This administrative change would change Wilderness Management Prescriptions in the Henrys Fork and Beaver Creek watersheds from Class I to Class II and the bottom area of the upper Henrys Fork from the Henrys Fork trail eastward to the base of the steep slopes from Wilderness Opportunity Class I to Class III. It will also change the acres displayed in the WCNF FP for the management prescriptions and the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum classes to reflect the corrections. The administrative change will not change the Forest Plan direction."