Sage Steppe Ecosystem Restoration Strategy. Final Environmental Impact Statement.

摘要

The Modoc National Forest, Bureau of Land Management and partner agencies including Modoc County, California, are cooperating in developing a management strategy and environmental impact statement. The Sage Steppe Ecosystem Restoration Strategy focuses on the restoration of sage steppe ecosystems that have come to be dominated by juniper, as the density of Western juniper has increased over the landscape. The management strategy will broadly identify appropriate restoration methodologies by ecological conditions; provide guidelines for design and implementation of effective restoration treatments for restoration areas to be analyzed site specifically over a 50-year horizon. The Forest Service and BLM developed five alternatives to the Proposed Action, including the Current Management alternative. These alternatives were developed in response to issues raised by the public, relating to the Proposed Action. The four action alternatives include one that proceeds slower, one that changes the mix of treatments, one that proceeds faster and changes the mix of treatments and one that proceeds slower and changes the mix of treatments.