Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 24.09.1999

Upper North Fork 25 Fire Restoration, Wenatchee National Forest, Chelan County, WA

The USDA, Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of a site specific proposal for the Upper North 25 Fire Restoration. The proposed action is approximately 20 miles northwest of the town of Chelan, Washington on approximately 800 acres of National Forest System Land in the North Fork 25 Mile Creek drainage on the Chelan Ranger District of the Wenatchee National Forest. It includes part of an area identified in Appendix C of the 1990 Wenatchee National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan as the Stormy Mountain Inventoried Roadless Area. It excludes the portion of that area allocated by the plan to roadless recreation. The purpose of the EIS will be to develop and evaluate a range of alternatives for ecosystem restoration activities within the area of upper North Fork 25 Mile Creek that was burned by the 1998 North 25 Fire. The objectives include: (1) Protecting/ restoring existing late-successional habitat; (2) creating heterogeneity in the distribution of woody fuel and snags; (3) salvaging fire killed/injured trees; (4) maintaining site productivity; and (5) promoting recovery of riparian areas. To