Final Environmental Impact Statement Noxious Weed Management Project, Dakota Prairie Grasslands: Billings, Slope, Golden Valley, Sioux, Grant, McHenry, McKenzie, Ransom and Richland Counties in North Dakota; Corson, Perkins and Ziebach Counties in South D

摘要

In 2003, Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth identified four interrelated threats to our ability to protect and restore our forests and grasslands to healthy conditions. One of the threats is noxious weeds. Approximately 57,234 acres, or four percent, of the 1.25-million acre Dakota Prairie Grasslands (DPG) are infested with a variety of noxious weeds. Currently there are 17 known noxious weed species on the unit. The DPG proposes to use an integrated adaptive approach to continue to treat existing and future infestations of noxious weeds. The FEIS analyzes two alternatives: No Action and the Proposed Action, which would use an integrated approach to treat and control up to 25,000 acres annually of existing infestation sites. The Proposed Action also includes an adaptive strategy for treating up to 13,900 acres of new or previously unknown noxious weed infestations over the next 10 to 15 years in a manner consistent with the DPG Land and Resource Management Plan direction and applicable laws.