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Green Mountain National Forest Supervisor’S Office 1-802-747-6700 TTY 1-802-747-6765 Green Mountain United States Department of Agriculture National Forest Forest Service Eastern Region Appendix H R9-GM-FEIS- Appendix H Responses to February 2006 Public Comments To Accompany the Final Environmental Impact Statement This document is available in large print. Contact the Green Mountain National Forest Supervisor’s Office 1-802-747-6700 TTY 1-802-747-6765 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, 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, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250- 9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Appendix H Response to Comments APPENDIX H RESPONSES TO PUBLIC COMMENTS Table of Contents Table of Contents......................................................................................................................................1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................2 Decision-Making Processes and Methods (10000) ..................................................................................4 Decision-making philosophy (11000) ....................................................................................................6 Public Involvement (12000).................................................................................................................10 Use of Science; Research (13000) .....................................................................................................12 Agency Organization, Funding, and Staffing (14000) .........................................................................15 Alternatives/Options (20000) ..................................................................................................................16 Document general (Draft or Final EIS, Proposed or Final Plan) (21000) ............................................16 Plan components (22000) ...................................................................................................................23 Alternatives (23000) ............................................................................................................................74 Natural Resources Management (30000)...............................................................................................82 Physical Elements Management (31000)............................................................................................84 Water/Watershed Management (31100) .............................................................................................92 Soils Management (31200) ...............................................................................................................100 Visual Resources Management (31300) ...........................................................................................100 Biological Elements Management (32000)........................................................................................101 Listed Species/Species of Special Concern (32100) ........................................................................104 Management Indicator Species (32200) ...........................................................................................114 Non-native Invasive Species (NNIS) (32300)....................................................................................126 Species Viability Evaluation (32400) .................................................................................................127 Wildlife/Fish Management (32500)....................................................................................................128 Vegetation Management (32600)......................................................................................................149 Fire and Fuels Management (33000) ................................................................................................162 Timber Resource Management (34000) ...........................................................................................163 Mining and Mineral Exploration (36000)............................................................................................202 Other Activities: Non-Recreation Special Uses, Administrative Facilities (37000) ............................202 Transportation System Management (40000) ......................................................................................206 Roads Management General (41000)...............................................................................................210 Recreation Management, General (50000) ..........................................................................................214 Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) (51000) ............................................................................214 Recreational Access General (51500) ..............................................................................................216 Developed Recreation/Recreation Facilities (52000) ........................................................................220 Dispersed Recreation Management (53000) ....................................................................................221 Trailheads, Signs, Parking (54000) ...................................................................................................243 Recreation Fees (55000)...................................................................................................................244 Recreation Permitting (56000) ..........................................................................................................245 User Education (57000) ....................................................................................................................245 Heritage Resources Management (59000) .......................................................................................245 Lands and Special Designations (60000) .............................................................................................246 Land Acquisition and Exchanges (61000).........................................................................................246 Land Designations/Management (62000) .........................................................................................248 Social and Economic (70000) ...............................................................................................................299 Green Mountain National Forest Page H - 1 Response to Comments Appendix H Introduction On April 1, 2005, the Forest Service announced in the Federal Register that the Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) and Proposed Revised Forest Plan (Proposed Plan) were available for public review. Following this release, a formal three month comment period provided interested publics a chance to review and provide feedback on the draft documents. Public response was overwhelming with over 10,000 letters and emails received. Approximately 85 percent were form letters with identical or nearly identical content. Review of the public comments showed areas of disagreement on some parts of the draft documents; however, many people expressed general support for managing and protecting the GMNF to continue providing ecological, social, and economic values for present and future generations. To organize and analyze each public response received, a “content analysis” process was conducted. Content analysis included logging the public respondents and letter numbers into a database, filing two copies of every letter, reading the letters, and coding individual requested actions and noted concerns contained within the letters. Each public concern was entered verbatim into the database, and given an identifying number that links the specific comment back to the original comment letter. Every effort was made to keep each comment within sufficient context so that it is a stand-alone statement. Forest Service analysts looked for not only each action or change requested by the public, but also the reason(s) behind each request in order to capture the full concern of each comment. Therefore, paragraphs within a response letter may be divided into several comments because multiple concerns were presented, or alternatively, several paragraphs that form one coherent statement may be coded into one comment. The coded comments were then grouped and summarized into public concern statements and subconcern statements. Because each public concern statement is a summary, it can represent one or many comments, depending on the actual comments submitted. Concern statements range from extremely broad generalities to extremely specific points because they reflect the content of verbatim public comments. The public concerns were responded to in this document, the Final EIS Response to Comments Appendix. These public concern statements are not intended to replace actual comments but rather guide reviewers to comments on specific
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