Snake River Activity/Operations Plan Environmental Assessment for Public Review and Comment

摘要

The purpose of the Environmental Assessment is to discuss the effects of implementing a management scheme for the National Forest Land and public land that lies along a portion of the South Fork of the Snake River. The general direction to prepare this plan is included in two land use plans, the Medicine Lodge Resource Management Plan (RMP) prepared for the Medicine Lodge Resource Area (BLM) and the Targhee National Forest Land Management Plan (USFS). Although these references provide broad guidelines to manage these river sections, such as protect threatened and endangered species, they do not provide the specific or the how-to directions to meet these objectives or guidelines. Both of these Land Management Plans (LMPs) recognized this need. Therefore, there is a need to develop a specific management scheme to protect or enhance the resources found along and influenced by this river. The present management of these segments is guided by these LMPs. The purpose of this memorandum is to coordinate among these groups to protect the resources of this river segment.