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Teresa Kubo, EPA
Jim Muck, NOAA Fisheries
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Release of Draft RMP/EIS
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Comment Period
May-December 2015
Develop and analyze Proposed
RMP/Final EIS
Winter 2016
Publish Proposed RMP/Final EIS
Winter-Spring 2016
Protest Period, Governor’s
Consistency Review, Resolution
Spring 2016
Record of Decision
To submit comments:
Interactive Map: www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/interactivemap
Email: [email protected]
Postal: Draft EIS for Western Oregon
P.O. Box 2965
Portland, OR 97204
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• The riparian
management
approaches of
the alternatives
• The effects of the
alternatives on
water and fish
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Action alternatives designed by interagency
team (NMFS, EPA, FWS, and BLM), by Coquille
Tribe, and by Interdisciplinary Team
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All alternatives allocate Riparian Reserves along
all streams
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Riparian Reserves are designed
to benefit water and fish
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In all action alternatives…
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• Riparian Reserves
• watershed restoration
• watershed scale information
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• All action alternatives include most
of the components of the Aquatic
Conservation Strategy in the
Northwest Forest Plan.
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– Distinction between the “classes” of streams
– Inner/outer zones in action alternatives
– Management direction specific to each zone
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Overview of the five riparian management
strategies in the alternatives in the Draft
RMP/EIS
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No Action alternative
fish-bearing streams/ non-fish-bearing streams
Action alternatives
fish-bearing streams & perennial streams/ non-fish-bearing
intermittent streams
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Alternatives allocate Riparian Reserves with
different widths on different classes of streams:
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The No Action alternative does not specify
any inner or outer zones
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All action alternatives delineate an inner zone
and outer zone of the Riparian Reserve, with
different widths on different types of streams:
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In all action alternatives,
• no thinning within inner zones (though
individual tree tipping allowed)
• Restrictions on thinning in outer zone
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All alternatives provide management
direction for actions within Riparian Reserves
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– Riparian Reserve widths
– Inner Zone widths
– Riparian Reserve management
(when, why, and how to thin)
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Important variables:
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– stream temperature
– wood to streams
– sediment delivery to streams
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Key ecological processes that affect
fish habitat:
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Stream shade
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45.00
No Action
Trees per acre greater than 20 inches diameter
40.00
Alternative A
35.00
Alternative B
30.00
Alternative C
Alternative D
25.00
No Timber
Harvest
20.00
15.00
10.00
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Wood supply
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5.00
0.00
2013
2023
2033
2113
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Sediment delivery in first decade
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• All alternatives would protect fish
habitat and water quality
• Alternatives A and D are as
effective or more effective than No
Action.
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Event
April 24, 2015
Release of Draft RMP/EIS
April 24-July 23, 2015
Comment Period
May-December 2015
Develop and analyze Proposed
RMP/Final EIS
September-December 2015
Reviews
Winter 2016
Publish Proposed RMP/Final EIS
Winter-Spring 2016
Protest Period, Governor’s
Consistency Review, Resolution
Spring 2016
Record of Decision
To submit comments:
Interactive Map: www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/interactivemap
Email: [email protected]
Postal: Draft EIS for Western Oregon
P.O. Box 2965
Portland, OR 97204
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