Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 20/09/1999

Nez Perce Fork Vegetation Management Project; Bitterroot National Forest, Ravalli County, MT

The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of management activities proposed in the Nez Perce Fork area on the West Fork Ranger District of the Bitterroot National Forest. Proposed management activities include management ignited prescribed fire, timber harvest, reforestation, and road reconstruction. The Nez Perce Fork area is located in Ravalli County, Montana, approximately 30 miles southwest of the city of Hamilton. The Nez Perce Fork area includes the entire Nez Perce Fork drainage and several other tributary drainages of the West Fork Bitterroot River, including Boulder Creek, Christisen Creek, Baker Creek and Pierce Creek. A variety of management activities proposed in the project are being considered together because they represent either connected or cumulative actions as defined by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1508.25). The purposes of the project are: (1) To restore fire and its associated ecological benefits, (2) to reduce fuel accumulations, (3) to modify timber stand structure and species composition in order to maintain or restore ecosystem diversity, (4) modify the edges of two o