Draft Environmental Impact Statement – Volume 1, Summary Proposed Revised Land Management Plans iv for the Blue
Mountains National Forests Table S-1. Comparison of how each alternative addresses the issue
ISSUE
Alternative B
Alternative C
Alternative D
Alternative E
Alternative F
• Road density changed
• Road density changed
• Road density changed
• Road density changed
• Road density changed
Access
Ecological
resilience
from a standard and
guideline to a desired
condition.
• Designates the most
backcountry limited
motor vehicle use
management areas
(618,800 acres) and
some backcountry
nonmotorized (78,600
acres).
• No wildlife corridor
designated.
from a standard and
guideline to a desired
condition.
• Management areas
feature backcountry
nonmotorized (586,300
acres) and wildlife
connectivity (502,000
acres).
• No backcountry
motorized.
• One mile per square
mile open route density
in wildlife corridor.
from a standard and
guideline to a desired
condition.
• Retains the areas that
currently are generally
suitable for motor vehicle
use, resulting in more
area suitable for summer
and winter motor vehicle
use compared to the
other alternatives.
from a standard and
guideline to a desired
condition.
• Management areas
feature backcountry
nonmotorized (228,100
acres), backcountry
motorized (425,200
acres), and connective
wildlife corridors (28,100
acres).
from a standard and
guideline to a desired
condition.
• Management areas
feature backcountry
nonmotorized (228,100
acres), backcountry
motorized (425,200
acres), and connective
wildlife corridors (28,100
acres).
• Moderate level of
management actions to
restore ecological
resilience.
• No change to
treatments to restore
forested vegetation.
• The combination of
vegetation treatments,
roads treatments, and
grazing practices results
in improvements in
watershed condition in 423 sub-watersheds.
• Highest level of
resource-specific
objectives for managing
some wildland fires to
meet desired landscape
conditions and
watershed restoration.
• Emphasizes improving
hydrologic function and
connectivity within
anadromous and bull
trout Key Watersheds.
• Highest level of
resource-specific
objectives for forest
vegetation restoration.
• Management
allocations emphasize
areas where active forest
management may occur.
• Higher level of
objectives for watershed
restoration and
emphasis on improving
hydrologic function and
connectivity within
anadromous and bull
trout Key Watersheds.
• Includes specific
objectives for managing
wildland fires to meet
desired landscape
conditions and
aggressive objectives for
treating invasive plants.
• Higher level of
objectives for watershed
restoration and
emphasis on improving
hydrologic function and
connectivity within
anadromous and bull
trout Key Watersheds.
• Includes specific
objectives for managing
wildland fires to meet
desired landscape
conditions and
aggressive objectives for
treating invasive
• Predicted annual
timber harvest: 47
MMBF, 288 jobs.
• Expected number of
jobs from timber, range,
ecosystem
restoration:2,822.
• Predicted annual
timber harvest: 243
MMBF, 2,040 jobs.
• Expected number of
jobs from timber, range,
ecosystem restoration:
5,413.
• Predicted annual
timber harvest: 162
MMBF, 1,330 jobs.
• Expected number of
jobs from timber, range,
ecosystem restoration:
4,496
• Predicted annual
timber harvest: 107
MMBF, 838jobs.
• Expected number of
jobs from timber, range,
ecosystem restoration:
3,909
• Predicted annual
Economic and
social well-being timber harvest: 87
MMBF, 650 jobs.
• Expected number of
jobs from timber, range,
ecosystem restoration:
3,737.
Issue
Livestock
grazing/ grazing
land vegetation
Old forest
Wilderness
Alternative B
Alternative C
Alternative D
• Slightly lower objective
levels than existing
numbers and locations
for cattle and sheep.
• Reduces the risk of
disease spread from
domestic sheep to big
horn sheep.
• Significantly reduces
the number of cattle and
sheep AUMs.
• Classifies riparian
areas and
subwatersheds with
habitat for listed fish
species as generally
unsuitable for cattle
grazing.
• Objective levels similar
to existing numbers and
locations for cattle and
sheep.
• Reduces the risk of
disease spread from
domestic sheep to big
horn sheep, but allows
grazing to occur in
previously vacant
allotments.
• Livestock levels the
same as the proposed
action.
• Standards and
guidelines for sage
grouse protection are
included.
Alternative E
• Livestock levels the
same as the proposed
action.
• Standards and
guidelines for sage
grouse protection are
included.
Alternative F
• No designated old
forest management
areas.
• Old forest managed
where it occurs on the
landscape.
• Desired conditions
provide old forest
management direction.
• Restrictions on large
tree harvest (trees
greater than 21-inch
d.b.h.) are included but
exceptions allowed for
safety, wildland-urban
interface, maintaining
open ponderosa pine
stands, as well as
reducing competition in
hardwood stands and
special habitats.
• Designates old forest
management areas
(390,900 acres).
• Only trees 8 inches
d.b.h. or less authorized
for timber harvest in this
management area.
• Management activities
outside old forest stands
retain live old forest trees
(greater than 21-inch
d.b.h.).
• Desired conditions
provide old forest
management direction.
• Vegetation treatments
emphasize wildland fire
(wildfires or prescribed
fires) rather than
mechanical treatments
rather than.
• No designated old
forest management
areas.
• Old forest managed
where it occurs on the
landscape.
• No standard or
guideline prohibiting the
harvest of trees greater
than 21-inch d.b.h. or
trees with old forest
characteristics.
• Desired conditions
provide old forest
management direction.
• Vegetation treatments
emphasize mechanical
treatments rather than
wildland fire (wildfires or
prescribed fires).
• No designated old
forest management area.
• Retains trees with old
forest characteristics
across the landscape.
• No standard or
guideline prohibiting the
harvest of trees greater
than21 inch d.b.h.
• Desired conditions
provide old forest
management direction.
• Vegetation treatments
would emphasize both
mechanical treatments
and prescribed fire.
• No designated old
forest management area.
• Retains trees >150
years old.
• No standard or
guideline prohibiting the
harvest of trees greater
than21 inch d.b.h.
• Desired conditions
provide old forest
management direction.
• Vegetation treatments
would emphasize both
mechanical treatments
and prescribed fire.
• Recommended
wilderness:13,400 acres
• Recommended
wilderness: 505,000
acres
• No wilderness
recommended.
• Recommended
wilderness: 91,000 acres
• Recommended
wilderness: 91,000 acres