2004 Final SEIS, Volume II
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FOREST SERVICE BLM JANUARY 2004 JANUARY Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement To Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Volume II — Appendices Public Lands USA: Use, Share, Appreciate Final SEIS The U.S. Department of Agriculture 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 USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call 202-720-5694 (voice or TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. As the Nation’s principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has responsibility for most of our nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes fostering the wisest use of our land and water resources, protecting our fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of our national parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. The department assesses our energy and mineral resources and works to assure that their development is in the best interest of all our people. The Department also has a major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who live in Island Territories under U.S. administration. Cover artwork compliments of Elizabeth I. Gayner. Drawing includes the Great gray owl (Strix nebulosa), an orchid (Cypripedium montanum), a mushroom (Gyromitra californica), and a snail (Monadenia fidelis). Appendices Appendix 1 - January 2001 Survey and Manage Standards and Guidelines Appendix 2 - BLM Special Status Species Program and FS Sensitive Species Program Appendix 3 - Oregon Natural Heritage Program Rankings Appendix 4 - Proposed Standards and Guidelines for Alternative 3 Appendix 5 - Biological Evaluation for Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed Species and Forest Service Sensitive Species Appendix 6 - Response to Comments Appendix 7 - Comment Letters from Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies Appendix 8 - Previous Analyses Incorporated by Reference 1 Appendix 1 Changes between Draft and Final Minor corrections, explanations, and edits are not included in this list. • Appendix 1 has been updated to reflect delegations from the RIEC and exemptions for wildland fire for resource benefits in all land allocations. 1 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 2 3 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES for Survey and Manage January 2001 Excerpted From ATTACHMENT 1 to the Record of Decision for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and Related Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines Includes explanatory notes from Regional Interagency Executive Committee (RIEC) Memorandums dated May 16, 2003, and July 31, 2003. Lead Agencies: Forest Service - U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Land Management - U.S. Department of the Interior Note: Table 1-1 referenced in these standards and guidelines is not included because it was updated as a result of the Annual Species Review Process for Fiscal Years 2001, 2002, 2003. The results of those updates are shown in this 2004 SEIS in the description of Alternative 1 in Chapter 2. Sections IX, X, and XI of these Standards and Guidelines are not included here because they were not part of the Survey and Manage Standards and Guidelines. Those sections deal with certain cavity nesting birds, Canada lynx, and some bat roosts. Those sections are not proposed for removal or modification by any of the alternatives in this 2004 SEIS. 2 3 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 4 5 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 Table of Contents I. Introduction . 7 Existing Standards and Guidelines Are Amended . 7 Physiographic Provinces. 7 Species Removed from Survey and Manage and other Standards and Guidelines . 8 Arthropod Guilds. 8 Land Allocations . 8 II. Survey and Manage Basic Criteria. 8 Species Persistence Objectives . 8 Concern for Persistence. 10 Relative Rarity . 11 III. Survey and Manage Categories . 11 Introduction . 11 Category A (Rare, Pre-Disturbance Surveys Practical). 12 Category B (Rare, Pre-Disturbance Surveys Not Practical) . 13 Category C (Uncommon, Pre-Disturbance Surveys Practical) . 14 Category D (Uncommon, Pre-Disturbance Surveys Not Practical or Not Necessary) . 15 Category E (Rare, Status Undetermined) . 16 Category F (Uncommon or Concern for Persistence Unknown, Status Undetermined) . 17 IV. Adaptive Management Process. 18 Introduction . 18 Acquiring New Information Relative to Survey and Manage Species 18 Evaluating New Information for Adding, Removing, or Changing a Species In Survey and Manage . 19 Implementing Changes or Refinements to Survey and Manage . 21 V. Management Recommendations . 23 VI. Surveys . 24 Surveys Prior to Habitat-Disturbing Activities (Pre-Disturbance Surveys) . 24 Strategic Surveys . 29 VII. Reports, Monitoring, and Review. 32 Annual Status Reports. 32 Monitoring . 33 Review by the Regional Ecosystem Office . 33 VIII. Additional Mitigation Measures . 34 Manage Sites Known as of September 30, 1999, for Two Mollusk Species . 34 Equivalent-effort Surveys for Eight Mollusk Species. 34 Duration of Additional Mitigation . 34 IX, X, XI. Omitted . 35 XII. Former Protection Buffer Species Without Management Recommendations . 35 TABLES AND EXHIBITS Omitted. However, the current species placements by Survey and Manage category are shown in the Alternative 1 description in Chapter 2. 4 5 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 6 7 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES for Survey and Manage All sections of this document are the complete compilation of standards and guidelines. I. Introduction Existing Standards and Guidelines Are Amended The standards and guidelines in the April 13, 1994, Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision for Survey and Manage, Protection Buffers, Protect Sites From Grazing, Manage Recreation Areas to Minimize Disturbance to Species, and Provide Additional Protection for Caves, Mines, and Abandoned Wooden Bridges and Buildings That Are Used as Roost Sites for Bats (hereafter referred to as Survey and Manage and related mitigation measures) are removed in their entirety and replaced as described below. See Appendix B of the November 2000 FSEIS for Amendment to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffers, and other Mitigation Measures for a complete display of the standards and guidelines to be removed. Except for certain cavity-nesting birds and Canada lynx described below, all former Protect Sites from Grazing species and Protection Buffer species are now either Survey and Manage species as described in the standards and guidelines below, or are removed from these standards and guidelines because they do not meet the Survey and Manage basic criteria. Known sites are managed as specified for the category to which they are placed, but the land allocations associated with Protection Buffer species sites (unmapped Late-Successional Reserves and Managed Late-Successional Areas) are returned to their underlying or appropriate surrounding allocation. Other elements of the Northwest Forest Plan not specifically addressed, and implementation memos and other policy interpretations not affected by changes in these standards and guidelines, are not changed. Exceptions to certain standards and guidelines for research or the Adaptive Management Process described in Chapter E of the Northwest Forest Plan Standards and Guidelines, for example, continue to apply to Survey and Manage as under the Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision. Physiographic Provinces The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan Standards and Guidelines include two different province maps: physiographic provinces and planning provinces. The map of the 12 physiographic provinces appears on page A-3 of the Northwest Forest Plan Standards and Guidelines and is repeated here for reference (see Figure 1 - Physiographic Provinces). The physiographic provinces allow differentiation between areas of common biological and physical processes. Unless otherwise identified, references to “provinces” 6 7 Final SEIS to Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines Appendix 1 in these standards and guidelines are to physiographic provinces. The 12 physiographic provinces are: 1. WA Olympic Peninsula 7. OR Coast Range 2. WA Western Lowlands 8. OR Willamette Valley 3. WA Western Cascades 9. OR Klamath 4. WA Eastern Cascades 10. CA Klamath 5. OR Western Cascades 11. CA Coast Range 6. OR Eastern Cascades 12. CA Cascades Species Removed from Survey and Manage and other Standards and Guidelines Species formerly included on Survey and Manage or related mitigation measures that