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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
DENVER, CO
TITLE 2600 - WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
R2 Supplement No. 2600-92-2
Effective December 31, 1992
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements to this title are numbered consecutively. Post by
document name. Remove entire document and replace with this supplement. Retain
this transmittal as the first page of this document. The last supplement to this
Manual was Supplement 2600-92-1 to 2610.
Page Code
2624.2--1 thru 2624.2--5
Superseded Sheets
3
Supplements Covered
R2 Supplement 39, 12/80
Document Name
2620
Digest:
Updates Chapter 20 to electronic format.
ELIZABETH ESTILL
Regional Forester
New
(Number of Pages)
5
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2624.1 - Minimum Requirements.
1. Statewide Comprehensive Plan. In accordance with the Memorandum of
Understanding with the various States, the Statewide Comprehensive Plan is to be
jointly reviewed and updated on an annual basis. During this process, the Forest
Service and the State wildlife agency shall:
Assess habitat goals and objectives as related to established population goals.
Plan and program future projects to meet the goals and objectives.
Plan and coordinate future budgets.
Assess past accomplishments.
Currently, the information relating to the above items is scattered and difficult to
retrieve. To consolidate this information into a more useful form for the purposes of
coordinating the program budget with the Statewide Comprehensive Plan, a 5-Year
Action Plan shall be prepared by each unit within the Region and be based on
direction established in the Forest Plan. This document shall be structured so that it
not only meets the needs of the Statewide Comprehensive Plan, but also so that it
can be used as a reference for:
Resource Planning Act Assessments and Programs.
Program, Planning and Budgeting (both Forest Service and State).
Program Accounting and Management Attainment Reporting System
(PAMARS).
An action plan as a part of the Forest Land and Resource Management Plan.
2. Administrative Unit. The Comprehensive Statewide Wildlife Management
Plan, 5-Year action Plan, shall be developed in cooperation with local wildlife agency
representatives, approved by the Forest Supervisor, and aggregated by State by the
Regional Forester. The resultant 5-Year Action Plan will become an amendment to
the appropriate Comprehensive Statewide Wildlife Management Plan and shall
serve as the action section of that document. Forests shall submit one copy of Form
R2-2600-10 (RCS 02-2600-04) to the Regional Forester no later than April 1 for
forwarding to the appropriate State wildlife agency.
Comprehensive Statewide Wildlife Plan - 5-Year Action Plan. The 5-Year Action
Plan will present the planned wildlife and fish habitat improvement program
scheduled for the next 5-year period. It shall reflect the actions required to attain the
population and habitat goals and objectives found in the body of the Comprehensive
Statewide Plan and the Forest Land and Resources Management Plan. This
summary shall become the State's record of the Forest Service's progress toward
accomplishing the objectives of the Comprehensive Statewide Plan.
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The habitat program shall be recorded on form R2-2600-10. It shall be completed to
show the projects accomplished the past fiscal year and the projects being planned for
the current and the next four fiscal years. Sufficient projects shall be identified to
cover the highest level of funding requested in program planning and budgeting for
any one year. This form is required in order to:
Provide a consistent format to facilitate the aggregation of programs at higher
administrative levels.
Ensure that adequate funds are programmed to conduct all phases of project
development and implementation.
Ensure the coordination of budget requests between the Forest Service, the
State wildlife agencies, and other cooperating agencies and/or groups.
Provide a tangible document which can be reevaluated and reprogrammed to
reflect changing priorities, funding and needs.
Ensure how well objectives have been met as outlined for the Regional Plan and
the Resource Planning Act (RPA).
The annual revision of the 5-Year Action Plan shall reflect the reassessment of the
5-year program and will account for the latest information relating to anticipated
State financing and participation. The signing of the form by the Forest Service and
the State wildlife agency at the various administrative levels shall document the
mutual acceptance of program revision but not obligate fund. The signed forms shall
also document that the required interagency coordination was achieved.
Procedure. Each Forest shall develop, in coordination with its counterpart within
the State wildlife agency, a scheduling of tasks which are necessary to ensure the
proper development of the 5-Year Action Plan. As a minimum, this schedule shall:
Assure a parallel flow of information up and down the administrative levels of
the agencies involved.
Provide a mechanism by which the field units are informed of revisions in
proposals and of the content of the final 5-Year Action Plan submitted by the
Forests.
Timing of the various tasks will vary according to the administrative procedures
used by the different State wildlife agencies; however, the sequence of events should
be quite similar. As a guide, a scheduling of tasks appropriate for the Colorado
Forests and the Colorado Division of Wildlife follows:
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DUTIES
RESPONSIBLE
INDIVIDUAL(S)
Summer
Field personnel of the Colorado division of
District Wildlife
Field Season Wildlife (CDWF) and the Forest Service to meet on Manager and District
an informal basis to determine management needs Ranger
for the attainment of established population and
habitat goals and objectives. Project treatments,
costs, timing, etc., are discussed and documented.
September
Field personnel of both agencies, prepare and
update Form R2-2600-10 based on anticipated
funding and targets.
District Wildlife
Manager and District
Ranger
November
Form R2-2600-10 due in the forest Supervisor's
Office and the Regional Office of the CDOW.
Area Supervisor and
District Ranger
November
District Ranger begins the Environmental
District Wildlife
Assessment process for projects expected to be
Manager, District
programmed two years hence. (This provides
Ranger, Forest
adequate lead time to modify programs should
Supervisor and
economic or environmental constraints render
Regional Manager of
projects nonviable.) District Ranger and CDOW CDOW
field personnel prepare Collection Agreements for
cooperatively funded projects to be completed the
following fiscal year.
December 1 Forest Supervisor and Regional Manager (CDOW) Forest Supervisor and
meet to coordinate and recommend a Forest
Regional Manager
Habitat Program of Work. District projects are set
in priority for the entire Forest and CDOW
cooperative funding potential is assessed at the
CDOW regional level.
December 15 Field units are informed of the outcome of the
Forest Supervisor and
proposed Forest program. Rationale for project Regional Manager
priority changes is made. Recommendations for
modifications of proposed projects are also made.
January 15
Regional Office (CDOW) is informed of the
Forest Supervisor
progress of the Wildlife Habitat Program following
the initial phases of the Forest budgeting process.
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January 25
Regional Office of the CDOW responds to the
Regional Manager
initial Forest budget information. Regional
Manager provides to Forest Supervisor
suggestions and alternatives to meet objectives in
view of budget constraints.
February 1
Forest completes budget process for the various
levels of constrained funding and documents
projects proposed for funding.
Forest Supervisor
February 15 Forest Supervisor provides Regional manager withForest Supervisor
the projects scheduled for funding for the various
levels of constrained funding.
April 1
Form R2-2600-10 for the Forest is due in the
Forest Supervisor and
Regional Office and copies are provided to the
Regional Manager
Regional Manager. Field units are informed of the
finalized version of the Habitat program of Work.
Summer
Resume on-the-ground coordination.
Field Season