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Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement VOLUME IV: Comments/Responses 100p USDA Tongass Land Management Plan Revision United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-MB-481d Final Supplemental February 2003 Environmental Impact Statement Roadless Area Evaluation for Wilderness Recommendations VOLUME IV: Appendix F Comments and Responses Printed on Recycled Paper VOL IV Photograph taken looking east from salt chuck at the head of Bay of Pillars, Kuiu Island. Roadless Area 244 covers the mountainous portion of the photograph. Tongass National Forest Land Management Plan Revision Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Roadless Area Evaluation for Wilderness Recommendations Volume IV: Appendix F Comments and Responses United States Department of Agriculture Forest ServiceAlaska Region February 2003 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410, or call (202) 720- 5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Federal Recycling Program Printed on Recycled Paper Appendix F CONTENTS A. Introduction................................................................................................................F-1 Background................................................................................................................ F-1 Content Analysis........................................................................................................ F-1 Comment Response .................................................................................................. F-2 B. Comments about Resources and Public Uses ........................................................... F-3 General...................................................................................................................... F-3 General-Ecological................................................................................................... F-12 Soils, Geology, and Karst......................................................................................... F-15 Water and Fish......................................................................................................... F-17 Wetlands.................................................................................................................. F-20 Wildlife ..................................................................................................................... F-20 Wildlife – Species or Species Groups ...................................................................... F-24 Old Growth and Wildlife Viability .............................................................................. F-29 Timber ..................................................................................................................... F-30 Minerals ................................................................................................................... F-36 Transportation and Utilities ...................................................................................... F-37 Subsistence and Customary/Traditional Uses.......................................................... F-42 Recreation and Tourism........................................................................................... F-46 Heritage Resources ................................................................................................. F-52 Economic and Social Environment........................................................................... F-53 C. Comments about Specific Inventoried Roadless Areas............................................ F-70 Introduction.............................................................................................................. F-70 Individual Roadless Area Comments ....................................................................... F-71 D. References ............................................................................................................ F-105 ATTACHMENT A LETTERS FROM AGENCIES, ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS Final SEIS F-iii Comments and Responses Appendix F Appendix F Comments and Responses A. Introduction The Tongass Land Management Plan Roadless Area Evaluation for Wilderness Recommendations Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SEIS) was released for public review on May 17, 2002, initiating a 90-day comment period that ended on August 17, 2002. This appendix presents a summary of the substantive comments, written or oral, received during the public comment period and provides Forest Service responses to these comments. In addition, Attachment A provides copies of the comment letters received from agencies, elected officials, and tribal governments. Background The public submitted approximately 177,000 separate pieces of input during the public comment period. These pieces of input, referred to as “responses”, were received in a number of forms including letter, fax, CD-ROM, public testimony, and via the project Web site (www.tongass-seis.net). Eighteen public hearings were held to elicit public comment over this period. These included 16 hearings in Southeast Alaska, a hearing in Anchorage, and an electronic public hearing held on the internet (Table F-1). All responses, both written and oral, were recorded and consolidated by the USDA Forest Service’s Content Analysis Team (CAT) in Missoula, Montana. Over 98 percent of the responses were form responses. Form responses were defined as 5 or more identical responses with identical text. A total of 46 different form letters were received, with the number of copies ranging from 5 to 42,272 copies. The remaining 2,983 non-form responses were received from all 50 states and at least 11 foreign countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Every comment was considered, regardless of whether it was one comment repeated by thousands of people or a comment submitted by only one person. The emphasis in the comment review process is on the content of the comment rather than on the number of times a comment was received. Input generated through the public comment process does not represent a statistically valid random sample of the public’s views. The comment analysis process is discussed in the following section. Content Analysis Public input on the Draft SEIS was documented and analyzed using a process called content analysis, which is a systematic method of compiling and categorizing the full range of public viewpoints and concerns regarding a plan or project. The content analysis process is designed to help the interdisciplinary team working on a project organize, clarify, analyze, and be responsive to information provided by the public. CAT’s role in the process was to read each response, capture the meaning of each individual comment within that response, and provide that meaning to the interdisciplinary team and decision-maker in a clear, understandable form. Upon receipt of each response, CAT assigned a unique identifier and identified the type of respondent (individual, agency, elected official, etc.) and geographic origin. This information was compiled in a database that allows the agency to query the comments in a number of ways. Comment coders read each response, highlighted substantive comments and labeled them by subject area. Each response was reviewed to ensure accuracy and consistency. Data entry personnel then copied the highlighted comments verbatim into the database. Analysts organized them by topic, and divided them into separate, distinct public concern statements. Each public concern statement was supported by representative quotations from the database. Final SEIS F-1 Comments and Responses Appendix F Comment Response The Interdisciplinary (ID) Team reviewed the public concern statements along with the sample quotations, considered the substance of the concerns, consolidated the individual comments into logical concern statements, grouped the concern statements into similar categories, and then developed responses to them. For many concerns, ID Team members reviewed the original letters or other input to ascertain the full context for the concern statement. Table F-1. Location and Date of Public Hearings COMMUNITY LOCATION DATE Juneau, Alaska Centennial Hall June 18, 2002 Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell Ranger Station June 18, 2002 Yakutat, Alaska Kwaan Conference Room June 18, 2002 Angoon, Alaska ANB Hall June 18, 2002 Petersburg, Alaska City Council Chambers June 19, 2002 Ketchikan, Alaska Discovery Center June 24, 2002 Craig, Alaska Craig Community Hall June 25, 2002 Skagway, Alaska City Council Chambers June 25, 2002 Tenakee Springs, Alaska Community Hall June 25, 2002 Thorne Bay, Alaska Bay Chalet June 26, 2002 Haines, Alaska City Council Chambers June 27, 2002 Port Protection, Alaska Port Protection June 27, 2002 Kake, Alaska Community Building July 1, 2002 Sitka, Alaska Centennial Hall July 2, 2002 Nationwide www.tongass-seis.net July 8, 2002 Gustavus, Alaska
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