Forest Service Management Actions Sample Clauses

Forest Service Management Actions. Forest Service management actions having potential to impact Lomatium greenmanii include trail maintenance activities, fuel reduction projects, fire suppression activities and administration of special use permits other than the tramway. Trail maintenance activities have the potential to cause short- to long-term localized impacts to Lomatium greenmanii. These may include trampling by trail workers or direct impacts from relocation of trail segments. The Mount Xxxxxx Fuels Reduction Project aims to reduce fire threat to the community of Wallowa Lake. Potential impacts to Lomatium greenmanii may include scorching from the prescribed fire, emergency suppression actions if the prescribed fire escapes the fire boundaries, construction of fire lines and access to work sites by workers and equipment. Some individuals of L. greenmanii could be impacted by these actions. In the past, Mount Xxxxxx has been used as an access point for fire suppression actions in the surrounding vicinity (WWNF 1999). Fire suppression activities could impact L. greenmanii plants and habitat by trampling, as crews access a fire area; construction of fire line; driving vehicles off of the service road; establishing a fire camp; and using Mount Xxxxxx as a helicopter landing spot or a supply drop spot. In the 1999 Conservation Strategy for Xxxxxxxx’x Desert Parsley (WWNF 1999), one of the specific conservation actions was to write a pre-attack and prescribed fire plan for Mount Xxxxxx. This plan was to outline where fire crews and equipment could be safely staged and provide a strategy for managing fires in the area. This plan has not been completed.