Rolnictwo i żywność · 15.09.1994
Deadwood Ecosystem Analysis, Boise National Forest, ID
The Lowman Ranger District of the Boise National Forest will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal to initiate ecosystem management and restoration projects in the Deadwood River drainage. This proposal will consist of watershed improvements, wildlife habitat maintenance, vegetation restoration and prescribed fire. A landscape scale analysis approach has been applied to the Deadwood Ecosystem. Using the National Hierarchical of Ecological Units the Deadwood Landscape has been classified into progressively smaller areas of uniform ecological potentials for use in ecosystem management. Ecological units have been delineated by similar patterns of (1) potential natural communities, (2) soils, (3) hydrological function, (4) landforms and topography, (5) lithology, (6) climate, (7) air quality and (8) natural processes for cycling plant biomass and nutrients.