Proposed Action Alternative Sample Clauses

Proposed Action Alternative. Figures 4-5 through 4-8 in the SHA show spotted owl habitat retention and growth within the White Salmon SOSEA and across all the covered lands over a 60-year time frame on an average 60-year rotation (range of 51 to 70 years) under the Proposed Action Alternative. These figures provide the basis for the following discussion of environmental consequences to species that may be affected by forest management activities that will occur under the Proposed Action Alternative.
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Proposed Action Alternative. Under the Proposed Action Alternative, land uses and land-ownership patterns would remain as under the No Action Alternative and existing conditions. While the Proposed Action Alternative would extend the harvest rotation age over the No Action Alternative, no change in land-use patterns or land ownership would occur. However, some lands not covered under the SHA (3,226 acres) would be converted and/or used for purposes other than timber growth and harvest. These lands include those used as commercial rock quarrying, agricultural operations, existing and proposed residential uses, and a wind energy project. These excluded lands would likely be similar under the No Action Alternative. However, if land use designations were to change, or opportunities to initiate land use changes were to occur, the Applicants would be obligated to keep their forestry lands in forestry to continue to provide spotted owl habitat according to the habitat commitments of the SHA.
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Proposed Action Alternative. The effects of climate change on the covered lands are uncertain but, at a regional scale, would likely be similar as under the No Action Alternative. However, under the Proposed Action Alternative, trees not cut during commercial thinnings would be harvested at a later age, likely allowing for greater carbon sequestration. After the first decade, individual trees grown in this extended rotation would store more carbon than trees grown in the shorter rotations of the No Action Alternative, and may minimally and locally help to reduce levels of atmospheric carbon. In addition, the ability to manage the forest in owl habitat to prevent or reduce the impacts of insect outbreaks would have a positive effect on owl habitat development and carbon sequestration.
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Proposed Action Alternative. Under the Proposed Action Alternative, the SHA would be implemented over approximately 82,000 total acres of SDS and BLC ownerships in Washington and Oregon, and USFWS would issue a Permit to the Applicants for a period of 60 years. For USFWS to issue the Permit, the SHA must contain voluntary conservation measures that are reasonably expected to provide a net conservation benefit to spotted owls. The SHA must identify the baseline that will be maintained over the term of the agreement. The USFWS’s SHA policy is available at: xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/endangered/policy/SAFE_HAR.HTM and xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/endangered/pdfs/FR/FRnoticeCCAA_SHAreg_revision.pdf. The following section briefly describes conservation measures outlined in the SHA. For a detailed discussion of these elements, please refer to the SHA (Environ 2012), (incorporated by reference). The Applicants will implement several different silvicultural regimes to ensure the proper growth and health of conifer-dominated forest stands during this period. The Applicants’ primary forest management regime will include several options for mid-rotation management, determined by a number of factors including steepness of slopes, and the feasibility of using ground-based logging equipment. The specific options for this management regime are:  plant and monitor until “free to grow”; controlling competing vegetation as needed;  consider the most suitable mid-rotation management: – no mid-rotation management, – pre-commercial thin at 10 to 12 years old, – commercial thin at 25 to 40 years old, or – apply both pre-commercial and commercial thinning to some stands;  monitor stand health and damage, and salvage opportunistically to recover value;  conduct regeneration harvest of conifer-dominated stands at approximately an average age of 60 years;  establish special management areas: – leave tree areas, – potentially unstable slopes, – forested wetlands, – cliffs, talus slopes, rock outcrops, and caves, – shrublands and xxxxxxx; – oak forests and mixed oak-conifer forests  establish special set aside areas (SSAs);  provide nest site protection;  enhance green and wildlife tree retention areas;  implement a snag-development program; and  maintain the elevated baseline in the SHA that includes a minimum of 9,424 acres of spotted owl habitat in the White Salmon SOSEA Components of the Proposed Action Alternative that would not be included in the No Action Alternative are; slowing the rate of harvest on covered la...
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Proposed Action Alternative. Under the Proposed Action Alternative, the Applicants would manage conifer-dominated, commercial forestlands on an average 60-year harvest rotation, normally between 50 and 70 years of age. This management approach will result in stands in the 45-70 years age range to be on the landscape, a condition that would not occur under the No Action Alternative. By protecting older forest stands as SSAs, the Applicants will ensure retention of some older forests on the landscape for the next 60 years. One SSA protects 411 acres of approximately 80 year old forest with YFM and Sub-Mature habitat characteristics along the Little White Salmon River. Under the No Action Alternative, approximately 271 acres of the SSA can be harvested and another 70 acres can be partially cut (30% every ten years). The remaining 70 acres cannot be harvested under the Washington Forest Practices Rules. None of this SSA would be harvested under the Proposed Action Alternative. Another 240 acres in the White Salmon SOSEA centered around a spotted owl site, consisting of 90 acres of older Xxxxxxx fir forest stands and150 acres Oregon white oak stands with large pockets of older Xxxxxxx fir forest, will also be retained for the next 60 years. This 240-acrea SSA is part of 346 acres within the 0.7-mile spotted owl circle that is currently restricted from harvest under the Washington Forest Practices Rules. Commercial thinning of stands under the Proposed Action Alternative will result in stands age 50 and older becoming more structurally complex than if allowed to grow without thinning, and under the No Action Alternative these actions would not be undertaken. Implementation of a snag retention and creation program will increase habitat diversity and is intended to improve prey species habitat for spotted owls. Stands of this age or structural features will not be allowed to occur under the No Action Alternative. The Applicants will also defer some older forest stands within the SOSEAs from harvest. Within four site centers in the White Salmon SOSEA, Applicants’ will defer any habitat-removing harvest within the 0.7 mile radius circle for the first ten years under the Proposed Action Alternative. Non-habitat with habitat potential will be encouraged to be thinned or treated with snag prescriptions, and be allowed to become habitat. This will result in older forest stands remaining longer on the landscape than under the No Action Alternative. Under the Proposed Action Alternative, in the White...
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Proposed Action Alternative. Under the Proposed Action Alternative, minimal change is expected to the socioeconomic environment for all four counties in the area. The Proposed Action Alternative may result in sustained long-term employment opportunities consistent with current employment levels due to the proposed sustainable harvesting activities, which are expected to keep employment levels consistent in the forest industry over a period much longer than that which would be expected under the No Action Alternative. This includes continued employment levels in the harvesting and processing of timber at local xxxxx, as well as any industries providing products and services to any sector within the forest industry. The maintenance and improvement of spotted owl dispersal, YFM, and Sub-Mature habitat on the Applicants’ lands is expected to enhance movement of juvenile spotted owls across the landscape and provide demographic support to owls (predominately on National Forest and WDNR lands), which may also increase the chance of spotted owls moving across other ownerships. However, the chance of spotted owls dispersing to or occupying other ownerships is anticipated to be lower than the Applicants’ lands because adjacent private and industrial owners are likely to continue to manage their forest on shorter rotations which does not facilitate maintenance or development of habitat. The anticipated young and simply structured forest stands on adjacent ownerships would not be considered suitable habitat for spotted owls, and would have no ESA restrictions on those lands, outside of spotted owl circles, if spotted owls were in the immediate area. Thus, the Applicants’ SHA, while beneficial to the spotted owl on their lands, would be unlikely to increase the potential for regulatory burdens for other landowners. As under the No Action Alternative, there would be no environmental justice impacts associated with the Proposed Action Alternative because the percentage of minority, Hispanic, and low- income populations in the study area is not meaningfully greater than the percentage of minority, Hispanic, and low-income populations in the general population(i.e., Skamania and Klickitat Counties and the State of Washington, and Hood River and Wasco Counties and the State of Oregon).
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