To require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a wildland-urban restoration charter forest demonstration project in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands to increase community involvement in decisionmaking regarding the management of those forests and grasslands, to evaluate the feasibility of using a predecisional review process for projects conducted as part of the demonstration project, to provide stewardship contracting authority as part of the demonstration project, and for other purposes.

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Pike and San Isabel Restoration Charter Forest Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the Forest Service, to conduct a ten-year wildland-urban restoration charter forest demonstration project for the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands in Colorado, in order to increase community management in such National Forest System lands. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for independent scientific review and monitoring of such lands' ecological, social, and economic sustainability; (2) establish a community management council; (3) develop a programmatic environmental impact statement to establish such project; and (4) establish a predecisional review process for use during the project's duration in connection with site-specific projects. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to enter into stewardship and end result contracts during the project's duration; and (2) FY 2003 through 2005 appropriations.

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