Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 14.10.1998

Wolfmann Projects, Willamette National Forest, Lane County, Oregon

The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal to harvest trees, build roads, and conduct prescribed burns within the Blue River drainage of the Blue River Ranger District approximately 55 miles east of Springfield, Oregon. Approximately 800 acres will be harvested and approximately 1 mile of road will be constructed. Prescribed fire will be used to treat approximately 180 acres. The proposal results from an extensive landscape design and watershed analysis conducted in the Blue River watershed located entirely within the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area (AMA). The Blue River Landscape and Monitoring strategy provides the framework for management of the area and is being implemented through the Blue River Landscape Administrative Study. The dominant theme of the study uses an interpreted range of ``natural'' variability of disturbance processes to guide landscape and watershed objectives, designs, and prescriptions. The need for the proposed action is to meet Willamette National Forest goals, objectives and commitments outlined in the Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan). The proposed action includes testing an alterna