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United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Travel Management Plan & Forest Plan Amendment Environmental Assessment Umpqua National Forest; Lane, Douglas and Jackson Counties, Oregon December 2014 For More Information Contact: Jane Beaulieu, Environmental Coordinator Umpqua National Forest 2900 NW Stewart Parkway Roseburg, OR 97471 Phone: (541) 957-3466 Email: [email protected] Fax: (541) 957-3495 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) 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Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................................ i Chapter 1 Purpose and Need for Action ...................................................................................... - 1 - Background ............................................................................................................................. - 1 - Travel Management Rule .................................................................................................... - 1 - Planning Area Location and Environmental Setting ........................................................... - 1 - Current Management Direction ........................................................................................... - 3 - Purpose and Need .................................................................................................................... - 4 - Existing Condition ............................................................................................................... - 4 - Desired Condition ................................................................................................................ - 5 - Proposed Action ...................................................................................................................... - 5 - Decisions to be Made .............................................................................................................. - 6 - Relationship to Laws, Regulations, Other Planning Documents and Analyses ...................... - 6 - Laws and Regulations: ........................................................................................................ - 6 - Tiered Environmental Impact Statements ........................................................................... - 7 - Previous Access and Travel Management Plans and Local Assessments ........................... - 7 - Scoping.................................................................................................................................... - 8 - Issues and Concerns ................................................................................................................ - 8 - Concerns That Did Not Drive Alternatives: ........................................................................ - 9 - Issues That Drove Alternatives to the Proposed Action: ................................................... - 10 - Project Implementation ......................................................................................................... - 11 - Chapter 2 Alternatives, Including the Proposed Action ............................................................ - 13 - Introduction ........................................................................................................................... - 13 - Alternatives Considered, But Eliminated From Detailed Study ........................................... - 13 - Eliminate Seasonal Restrictions ........................................................................................ - 13 - Open, Close, Construct or Decommission Roads .............................................................. - 13 - Wilderness Proposal .......................................................................................................... - 14 - Previous Proposed Action (Alternative A) and Alternatives B and C ............................... - 14 - Alternatives Analyzed in Detail ............................................................................................ - 14 - Existing Condition ............................................................................................................. - 14 - Items Common to all Alternatives (including NO ACTION) ........................................... - 20 - Alternative 1: No Action ................................................................................................... - 21 - Action Alternatives ............................................................................................................ - 22 - Items Common to all Action Alternatives ......................................................................... - 22 - Alternative 2: Proposed Action ......................................................................................... - 23 - Alternative 3 ...................................................................................................................... - 23 - Alternative 4 ...................................................................................................................... - 24 - Alternative 5 ...................................................................................................................... - 25 - Alternative 6 ...................................................................................................................... - 26 - Comparison of Alternatives ............................................................................................... - 27 - CHAPTER 3 .............................................................................................................................. - 29 - Affected Environment and Environmental Effects ................................................................... - 29 - Introduction ........................................................................................................................... - 29 - Forest Transportation System - Roads .................................................................................. - 30 - Existing Condition ............................................................................................................. - 31 - Cumulative Effects ............................................................................................................ - 34 - Recreation ............................................................................................................................. - 35 - Management Direction ...................................................................................................... - 35 - Existing Condition ............................................................................................................. - 36 - i Alternative 1 - No Action .................................................................................................. - 43 - Effects Common to All Action Alternatives ..................................................................... - 44 - Alternative 2 – Proposed Action ....................................................................................... - 48 - Alternative 3 ...................................................................................................................... - 50 - Alternative 4 ...................................................................................................................... - 53 - Alternative 5 ...................................................................................................................... - 55 - Alternative 6 ...................................................................................................................... - 55 - Cumulative Effects ............................................................................................................ - 56 - Congressionally Designated Areas ....................................................................................... - 56 - Wilderness ......................................................................................................................... - 56 - Oregon Cascades Recreation Area (OCRA) ..................................................................... - 57 - Wild and Scenic Rivers ..................................................................................................... - 57 - Potential Wilderness Areas and Inventoried Roadless Areas ............................................ - 58 - Visual Resources ................................................................................................................... - 60 - Management Direction ...................................................................................................... - 60 - Existing Condition