Forests & Fish Buffers definition
Examples of Forests & Fish Buffers in a sentence
The proposed SHA Enrolled Lands include three major categories: Occupied Sites, Forests & Fish Buffers, and Adjacent Forests.
The actual number of acres that would be selectively harvested in Forests & Fish Buffers is unknown.
All employees will begin accruing vacation time as outlined in this section on their first day of work under a signed work agreement except that this benefit does not apply to school year only employees, substitutes or temporary employees.
As discussed above, impacts to vegetation in both Forests & Fish Buffers and commercial regeneration forest would be virtually the same under all alternatives and would differ between alternatives only with respect to land (other than Forests & Fish Buffers) set aside for conservation purposes.
Plants that benefit from a consistent long-term forest presence without ground disturbance (i.e., no regular regeneration harvest) would receive protection in Forests & Fish Buffers of all kinds, whereas the growth cycles for these plants within regeneration forest may be impacted each time there is regeneration harvest.
Likely impact to rare and threatened plant species in Forests & Fish Buffers will be the same under all alternatives, including the No Action Alternative, as discussed above.
There would be no expected decrease in timber harvest under the No Action Alternative, and is expected to be slightly higher for the No Action Alternative (relative to the other alternatives) because no lands are set aside for additional conservation purposes other than Forests & Fish Buffers (which are set aside under every alternative).
The primary differences in effects to other threatened and endangered species between the various alternatives associated with the Permit issuance will be tied primarily to lands set aside for conservation purposes other than Forests & Fish Buffers.
These stands are shown on the Enrolled Lands maps interspersed with unstable slope buffers, but the majority of the lands identified as Forests & Fish Buffers are RMZs, WMZs, and CMZs. Location of streams and rivers are also shown, which indicate the location of typed waters when viewed in conjunction with locations of Forests & Fish Buffers.
Under the Proposed Action Alternative, timber harvest operations in commercial forests and in Forests & Fish Buffers are expected to be similar to under the other alternatives, including the No Action Alternative.