Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 13/12/2000

Lassen National Forest; California; Lakes Forest Recovery Project

The Forest Service intends to prepare an environmental impact statement to analyze and disclose the environmental effects of implementing resource management activities that include fuelbreak construction consisting of a strategic system of defensible fuel profile zones, group selection and individual tree selection harvests, and riparian restoration projects on the Almanor Ranger District in the Lassen National Forest. These activities are part of a 5-year pilot project to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of certain resource management activities designed to meet ecologic, economic, and fuel reduction objectives on the Lassen National Forest as well as the Plumas National Forest and on the Sierraville Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest. This notice applies only to the Lassen National Forest; however, all three National Forests were named in the Record of Decision (August 1999) for the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act Final Environmental Impact Statement. The Record of Decision amended the management direction in the Land and Resource Management Plans for these three National Forests. The need for the Record of Decision and Final Environment