Sec. 403. Management
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All lands within the Recovery Areas described in section 402(a) shall be managed so as to restore their native vegetative cover and reduce or eliminate invasive non-native species, facilitate native species diversity to the extent possible with climate change, stabilize slopes and soils to prevent or reduce further erosion, recontour slopes to their original contours, remove barriers to natural fish spawning runs, and generally restore such lands in their entirety to a natural roadless and wild condition.
In the management of the Recovery Areas, special consideration shall be given to restoration of water quality in the Recovery Area. Not later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop a wildland recovery plan for each Recovery Area. Each recovery plan shall detail necessary work and funding requirements needed to implement the management direction established under this section. The Secretary shall use measurable criteria to judge the success of recovery efforts taken pursuant to this section.