Echo Trail Area Forest Management
Project Final EIS
The legal notice
of decision for the Echo Trail Area Project was published
on February 3, 2007, in the Mesabi Daily News, the newspaper
of record.
Final
Environmental Impact Statement
Abstract
Table of Contents
Summary
Chapter
1: Purpose and Need
Chapter 2:
Alternatives
Chapter
3: Affected Environment and Environmental Effects
Section 3.1-3.6
Section 3.7
Vegetation
Section 3.8 Wildlife
Habitat
Section
3.9 Recreation
Section 3.10
Forest Plan Inventoried Roadless Areas
Section
3.11 Scenic Quality
Section 3.12
Soils
Section
3.13 Water Quality and Watershed Health
Section 3.14 Fire
Regime Condition Class
Section 3.15
Non-native Invasive Species
Section
3.16 Heritage Resources
Section
3.17 Economics
Sections
3.18-3.23
Section
3.24 Transportation System
Section 3.25
Special Use Authorizations
Chapter
4: Lists
Appendices
Appendix
A: Design Features,
Mitigation Measures, Implementation, and Monitoring
Plan
Appendix
B: Unit
Cards
Appendix
C: Proposed Road
Additions/Changes
Appendix
D: Roads Proposed
for Decommissioning
Appendix
E: Proposed Vegetative
Treatments
Appendix
F: Management
Indicator Habitats
Appendix
G: Gravel Pits
List and Sample Pit Management Plan
Appendix
H: Biological
Evaluation
Biological
Assessment
Appendix
I: Past, Present,
and Reasonably Foreseeable Future Actions
Appendix
J: Public Comments
on Draft EIS, with Forest Service Responses
Final
Environmental Impact Statement Maps
Map
1: Existing
Vegetation and Transportation System
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Map
2: Alternative
2, Vegetation Treatments and Transportation Plan
Map
3: Alternative
3 Modified, Vegetation Treatments and Transportation Plan
Map 4: Alternative
4, Vegetation Treatments nad Transportation Plan
Map
5: Landscape
Ecosystems
Map
6:
Recreation Sites
Map
7: Forest
Plan Inventoried Roadless Areas
Map
8: Scenic
Integrity Objectives (SIO's)
Map
9: Management
Areas
Map
10: Existing
and Proposed Gravel Pits
Map
11: Proposed
NFS Road Additions
Map
12: Proposed
Road Decommissioning
Record
of Decision
District
Rangers' Letter
ROD
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Decision
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Chapter 3: Rationale For Decision
3.1
Forest Vegetation and Wildlife Habitat
3.2
Transportation System
3.3
Recreation
3.4
Forest Plan Inventoried Roadless Areas
3.5
Other Considerations
3.6
Findings Required by other Laws and Regulations
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Chapter 4: Alternatives
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Chapter 5: Public Involvement
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Chapter 6: Implementation
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Chapter 7: Appeal Rights, html
version, Microsoft
WORD version
ROD Maps
Map ROD 1: Vegetation
Treatments and Transportation Plan
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Map ROD 2: Upland
Interior Forest Habitat (MIH 12)
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Attachments
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