16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–23 — Land use authorities

(a) In general. The Secretary^* can only allow uses of the area's federal land that the Secretary finds will further the purposes for which the area was created.

(b) Commercial timber. Commercial timber harvesting is banned on the area's federal land. As a limited exception, the Secretary can authorize removing trees, but only if it's clearly needed for ecological restoration, maintenance, or public safety. Outside the Wilderness Area^* and the wilderness study areas named in section 460nnn–64(a), the Secretary can also authorize selling the wood from that authorized removal.

(c) Juniper management. The Secretary must focus on restoring the area's historic fire pattern and its native plant communities, by actively managing Western Juniper across the whole landscape. This includes using both natural fires and prescribed burns.

(d) Hunting, fishing, and trapping. The Secretary must allow hunting, fishing, and trapping on the area's federal land, under applicable United States and Oregon law. After consulting the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Secretary can still designate zones or set times when these activities are banned, for public safety, running the area, or protecting public enjoyment.

(e) Grazing. Except as this section and part F otherwise say, the usual Bureau of Land Management laws, regulations, and executive orders for issuing and running grazing leases and permits still apply here. The Secretary must cancel the grazing permitted within the Fish Creek/Big Indian, East Ridge, and South Steens allotments, wherever they fall inside the "no livestock grazing area" shown on the map named in section 460nnn–11(a); once canceled, grazing there is banned going forward, and the Secretary must build and maintain any fencing needed to protect resources in that no-grazing area. The forage that gets freed up must be reallocated in four specific ways: the O'Keefe pasture in the Miners Field allotment goes to Stafford Ranches; the Fields Seeding and the part of Bone Creek Pasture east of the county road, both in the Miners Field allotment, go to Amy Ready; the Miners Field Pasture, Schouver Seeding, and the part of Bone Creek Pasture west of the county road, also in the Miners Field allotment, go to Roaring Springs Ranch; and 800 animal unit months in the Crows Nest allotment go to the Lowther (Clemens) Ranch. The Secretary must also build fencing and water systems needed to let livestock reasonably and efficiently use that reallocated forage.

(f) Prohibition on construction of facilities. No new facility can be built on the area's federal land unless the Secretary decides it will be minimal, fits this subchapter's purposes, and is necessary for one of four reasons: (A) improving plant, fish, wildlife, or watershed conditions; (B) public information, health, or safety; (C) managing livestock; or (D) managing recreation that's already happening — not for encouraging more of it.

(g) Withdrawal. Subject to any valid existing rights, the federal land and land interests in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area^* are withdrawn from all the usual ways people can claim, enter, or acquire public land. The one exception is a land exchange, and only if the Secretary decides it furthers the purposes and goals in section 460nnn–12, and formally tells Congress so.