Rolnictwo i żywność · 17/03/1995

First Creek Basin Restoration Project, Wenatchee National Forest, Chelan County, WA

The Forest Service, USDA, will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of a site-specific proposal for the First Creek Basin Restoration Project. The proposed action is partially located within the original Slide Ridge Roadless Area, approximately 15 miles northwest of the town of Chelan, in the First Creek, Baldy, and Granite Falls Creek drainages on the Chelan Ranger District of the Wenatchee National Forest. The purpose of the EIS will be to develop and evaluate a range of alternatives for ecosystem restoration activities within the First Creek Basin. Alternatives may include fuel reduction activities, seeding, reforestation, slope stabilization, wildlife habitat restoration, stream channel stabilization, timber harvest, road/trail construction, and road/trail obliteration. The alternatives will include a no action alternative, and at least one alternative that maintains the unroaded character of the proposed project area. Other alternatives will be designed to respond to relevant issues. The proposed project will be consistent with direction given in the Wenatchee National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, as ame