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Vestal Final Environmental Impact Statement Chapter 1 6 Objective 205: Manage for 122,000 acres of prairie grassland and 3,600 acres of meadow during the life of the Plan. • Opportunity exists to maintain existing meadows within the project area. Most of these meadows are currently experiencing encroachment by pine. Meadows act as natural fuelbreaks. Goal 4: Provide for scenic quality, a range of recreational opportunities, and protection of heritage resources in response to the needs of the Black Hills National Forest visitors and local communities. Objective 402: Provide natural appearing landscapes with diverse scenery and enhance opportunities to enjoy attractive settings... • Opportunity exists to enhance/maintain landscapes in and around existing recreation sites and throughout the project area, by removing MPB infested trees and thinning stands to reduce insect damage and wildfire hazard. In addition, removal of MPB infested trees would enhance public safety in these areas. Goal 10: Establish and maintain a mosaic of vegetation conditions to reduce occurrences of catastrophic fire, insect, and disease events, and facilitate insect and disease management and firefighting capability. Objective 10-01: Manage for 50 to 75 percent moderate-to-low fire hazard in the wildland-urban interface and reduce fire hazard within proximity of structures to current NFPA standards… • Opportunity exists to reduce existing fire hazard within WUI that currently exceeds objectives on National Forest System lands within the project area. Objective 10-04: Reduce or otherwise treat fuels commensurate with risks (fire occurrence), hazard (fuel flammability), and land and resource values common to the area, using the criteria in Forest-wide Guideline 4110. • Opportunity exists to treat fuels and reduce hazards within the project area. Objective 10-05: Manage wildfires using the appropriate response based on management area emphasis, existing values, risk of ignition, and fuel hazards within a given area. • Opportunity exists to reduce existing and activity fuels to a manageable level, facilitating a proactive and effective response to wildfire. Objective 10-06: Develop fuel management and protection strategies for intermixed land ownerships in partnership with private, state, and other federal agencies. • Opportunity exists to coordinate with the State and County based on goals established in the Custer County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) to reduce fuels on both public and private
Vestal Final Environmental Impact Statement Chapter 1 lands in order to reduce the potential for large wildfires that could affect homes, infrastructure, and other ecosystem values. Objective 10-07: Where outbreaks of mountain pine beetle could present risks to management objectives for ponderosa pine, reduce acreage of ponderosa pine stands that are in medium or high risk for infestation. • Opportunity exists to reduce the acreage of pine stands at high risk of MPB infestations by removing infested trees and reducing the overall stand density. Forest-wide standards and guidelines related to insects and disease: Guideline 4201a: Plan management activities with consideration for potential insect or disease outbreaks. Use integrated pest management strategies where insect or disease outbreaks may adversely affect management objectives. Utilize preventive vegetation management practices, including silvicultural treatments, to protect forest stands from insect and disease epidemics. Standard 4201b: During scheduled management activities, minimize susceptibility to mountain-pine-beetle epidemics by reducing average basal area to 70 or less in pine stands, except where denser stands are needed to meet other management objectives. Standard 4201c: Use the following insect-and-disease protection measures: Manage vegetation in and adjacent to high-use recreation areas to improve forest conditions, as needed to maintain or improve the desired recreation settings(s) or to conserve R2 sensitive or species of local concern and snails. In and adjacent to developed recreation sites actively treat insect and diseases to reduce pest populations. Standard 4201d: Consider spatial array of stand conditions when planning harvests to reduce their potential for mountain pine beetle epidemics. For example, silvicultural treatments may be appropriate within or adjacent to dense mature stands. Guideline 4205: Consider applying preventive silvicultural treatments or other integrated pest management strategies to National Forest System land adjoining other land ownerships to reduce the likelihood of insect and disease epidemics and spread. Plan suppression strategies to reduce mountain pine beetle populations in pine stands during epidemics. Prioritize according to values, risk and management objectives. Priority should be given to areas in which values to be protected exceed the cost of protection. Guideline 4206: Project plans should consider existing infestations of insects or disease within a project area. Activities should be designed to minimize the risks of spreading the infestation while still providing habitat for those wildlife species dependent upon the presence of insects and disease. 7
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