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Timeline & Key Steps
Southwest Jemez Mountains Restoration: Timeline & Key Steps
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September 2009 - December 2009
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Assessments of Existing Ecological Conditions: The Santa Fe National Forest and Valle Caldera National Preserve are currently completing comprehensive assessments of existing ecological conditions within the SW Jemez Mountains area, and comparing them with historic (pre-Euro-American settlement) reference conditions as well as with environmental protection and conservation standards. Refer to Maps and Documents.
January 2010 - March 2010
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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Strategy and Proposal: Information from the existing conditions assessment reports will be used as a framework to collaboratively develop a 10-year forest landscape restoration Strategy (i.e. strategic plan) in accordance with Title IV-Forest Landscape Restoration of the 2009 Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (also referred to as Title IV-FLRA). Refer to the Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program website for details about the process and required documentation, at http://www.fs.fed.us/restoration/CFLR/. The Forest Service, Valles Caldera Trust, New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute, and The Nature Conservancy will lead the planning process to collaboratively develop the CFLRP Strategy and Proposal. Adjacent landowners including Jemez Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Bandelier National Monument (National Park Service), and Los Alamos National Laboratories will participate in this collaboration along with several environmental groups, state and local agencies, and many organizations interested in forest restoration. Refer to Participation Interest Form and Join the Mailing List if you wish to participate.
March 2010 - August 2010
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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Planning and Decision-making Process: Information from the CFLRP 10-year Strategy will be used to develop site-specific proposed restoration treatment actions. The Forest Service, Valles Caldera Trust and Jemez Pueblo will lead their own NEPA planning and public participation processes for proposed actions under each jurisdiction, beginning with the first set of priority treatments identified in the Strategy. They will work collaboratively with each other and all interested parties to design proposed treatment prescriptions and mitigation measures, identify concerns about possible impacts (issues) and alternative treatment actions, and analyze the foreseeable environmental consequences in accordance with NEPA regulations. Different proposed actions will require different levels of NEPA analysis and documentation. The process is open to all who express an interest in participating.
August 2010
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Restoration Treatment Implementation Process: Regardless of whether the CFLRP Strategy and Proposal are partially funded with CFLRP funds or other funds, the Forest Service and Valles Caldera Trust expect to begin implementation of forest restoration treatments in the SW Jemez Mountains area. Based on the NEPA analysis and decisions to be completed sometime in the summer of 2010, implementation preparations will begin, including any tree-marking, treatment unit lay-out, awarding contracts or hiring field personnel, and other actions needed to make progress in accomplishing this important work on the ground. Several collaborators on the CFLRP strategy will continue working together to implement actions across jurisdictional boundaries, and to conduct multi-party monitoring of the effects of the landscape restoration treatments.
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