Withdrawal of the Regional Guide for the Intermountain Region and the Transfer of Select Decisions Therein to Specific Forest Plans

摘要

The Regional Forester for the Intermountain Region of the USDA Forest Service is withdrawing the Regional Guide and transferring selected decisions therein to specific Forest Plans. The Regional Forester is transferring the direction related to maximum size openings for even-aged timber management to those Forests that did not specifically address this requirement in their Forest Plan or that address it by referencing the Regional Guide Direction. Current planning regulations direct that the Regional Forester must withdraw the Regional Guide within 1 year of November 9, 2000. When a Regional Guide is withdrawn, Forest Service policy mandates that the Regional Forester must identify the decisions in the Regional Guide that are to be transferred to a regional supplement to the Forest Service directive system or to one or more forest. This action complies with that direction. A review of the relevant Forest Plans indicates that the Humboldt, Sawtooth, Toiyabe and Uinta National Forests are affected.