Upper Columbia River Basin : draft environmental impact statement

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Upper Columbia River Basin
Draft Environmental
Impact Statement
Volume 2 Appendices
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Lead Agencies.
USDA Forest Service, Intermountain and Northern Regions
USDI Bureau of Land Management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming
Responsible Officials:
H. Salwasser, Regional Forester, Forest Service Region 1
D. Bosworth, Regional Forester, Forest Service Region 4
M. Hahn, Idaho State Director, BUM
L. Hamilton, Montana State Director, BLM ! U s 0£PT OF AGRICULTURE !
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A. Morgan, Nevada State Director, BLM
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M. Millenbach, Utah State Director, BLM
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A. Pierson, Wyoming State Director, BLM
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For further information contact:
James E. May, Acing Project Manager
Upper Columbia River Basin EIS
304 North 8th Street, Rm. 250
Boise, ID 83702
Telephone [phone]; Fax [phone]
Email: [email protected]
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Contents
Appendix A Scientific Background, Legal Guidance, and Current Plans.1
Scientific Background.2
Major Studies.2
Science Integration Team.3
Legal Guidance.4
Current Plans and Their Approval Dates.5
Appendix B Benefits and Risks of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem
Management Project.7
Appendix C American Indian Background Information..29
Introduction. 30
General Information Sheets for Affected Tribes in the Upper
Columbia River Basin.30
Federal Court Cases with Applications for Multiple Tribes.37
Affected ICBEMP Tribes Named as a Party to Federal Court Case.38
Other Court Cases Relevant to Affected ICBEMP Tribes, Federal
Agency-Tribal Relations, and Tribal Issues.39
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.41
Coeur d'Alene Tribe of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, Idaho.43
Map 1.45
Map 2.46
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.47
Map 1.50
Map 2.51
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation, Montana.52
Map 1.55
Map 2.56
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Oregon .57
Map 1.60
Map 2.61
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.62
Map 1. 64
Map 2.65
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the
Yakama Reservation, Washington.66
Map 1.69
Map 2.70
Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt
Indian Reservation, Nevada.71
Map 1.73
Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation, Washington.74
Map 1.76
Map 2.77
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho...78
Map 1.80
Map 2.81
Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho.,.82
Map 1.85
Map 2.86
Northwestern Band of the Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie).87
Map 1.89
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho.90
Map 1.92
Map 2.93
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada .94
Map 1.96
The Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation, Washington.97
Map 1.99
Map 2.100
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming.101
Chronology of Legal Status of American Indian Tribes.104
Introduction.104
Laws and Treaties.105
Evaluating Habitat, Harvestability, and Meeting American Indian
Needs.114
Introduction. 114
How Harvestability Can Be Evaluated. 114
Ethno-Habitats~A Bridge in Understanding Tribal Issues.116
Introduction. 116
Description of Ethno-Habitats. 116
Appendix D UCRB Public Involvement.121
Introduction.122
UCRB Scoping.122
Video Teleconference.122
Other Scoping Meetings.123
Public Briefings and Presentations.124
Project Briefings.124
Social Science Symposium.124
Special Presentations.125
Sources of UCRB EIS Information.125
Electronic Library.125
Internet.125
Toll-Free Telephone Number.125
Mailings.126
Briefings and Consultations.127
Resource Advisory Councils.137
Analysis of Scoping Comments.137
Geographic Distribution of Comments.139
Summary of Scoping Comments.139
Input on a Preferred Alternative for the Draft EIS.143
Appendix E Special Status Species and Recovery Maps.145
Table E-l. Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, or Candidate
Species and Status of Recovery Plans, UCRB.146
Table E-2. Sensitive Vertebrate and Plant Species: BLM and Forest Service
Regions in the ICBEMP Project Area 154
Map: Critical Habitat for Snake River, Spring, Summer, and Fall Chinook
Salmon and Snake River Sockeye Salmon.168
Map: Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone.169
Map: Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone: Cabinet/Yaak.170
Map: Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone: Bitterroot.171
Map: Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone: Selkirk.172
Map: Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone: Northern Continental Divide.173
Map: Wolf Recovery Areas.174
Map: Threatened and Endangered Aquatic Mollusks.175
Appendix F Rangeland Materials.181
Succession Models for Rangeland Vegetation.182
Climax Model.182
State and Transition Model.182
Noxious Weed Management.184
Introduction.184
Integrated Weed Management.184
Noxious Weed Control Guidelines for an IWM Strategy.186
Table A. Broad-scale cover types in the project area and their
susceptibility to invasion by 25 weed species.189
Table B. Description of broad-scale cover types in the project area used
in Table A to characterize the susceptibility of vegetation types to
invasion by weed species.192
Appendix G Direction for RCAs and RMOs.195
Introduction.196
Overview of Aquatic and Riparian Strategies.196
Alternative 1.196
Alternative 2.196
Alternative 3.196
Alternative 4.197
Alternative 5.197
Alternative 6.198
Alternative 7.198
Direction for RCAs and RMOs.199
Riparian Conservation Areas (RCAs).199
Introduction.199
Alternative 1.200
Alternative 2.200
Alternative 3.201
Alternatives 4 and 6.201
Table 1. Dominant Processes, Functions, and Disturbance Mechanisms
for Perennial and Intermittent Streams.202
Alternative 5.206
Alternative 7.206
Table 2. RCA Widths, Timber Priority Areas, Alternative 5.206
Riparian Management Objectives (RMOs).207
Introduction... 207
Procedure for RMO Application.207
Alternative 1.208
Alternatives 2 and 3.208
Alternatives 4 and 6.208
Table 3. RMO Values for Alternatives 2 and 3.209
Table 4. RMO Values for Alternatives 4 and 6.210
Table 5. Instream RMO values for Option B*.211
Alternative 5.212
Alternative 7.213
Literature Cited.216
Appendix H Guidelines.219
Implementing Ecosystem Management.220
Sub-basin Reviews: Guidelines For Objective EM-03.220
Ecosystem Management at the Watershed Scale: Guidelines For
Objective EM-04.220
Physical Environment.220
Soil Productivity: Guidelines For Objectives PE-Ol through PE-04.220
Air Quality: Guidelines For Objective PE-05.221
Terrestrial Strategies.221
Fire Disturbance Processes: Guidelines For Objectives TS-02 and TS-03 .. 221
Noxious Weeds: Guidelines for Objectives TS-04 and TS-05.223
Forested Lands.227
Rangelands.233
Aquatic/Riparian Strategies.237
Guidelines Related to Objectives AQ-Ol, AQ-02, AQ-03, AQ-05, AQ-06,
and AQ-Ol0.237
Category 1 Sub-basins: Guidelines Related to Objective AQ-04 . 239
Category 2 Sub-basins: Guidelines Related to Objective AQ-07 . 240
Category 3 Sub-basins: Guidelines Related to Objective AQ-09.240
Water Quality: Guidelines Related to Objective AQ-013.241
Terrestrial and Aquatic Species and Habitats.241
Habitats for Federal Trust Responsibilities: Guidelines For
Objective HA-Ol.241
Viable Populations, and Listed Species Habitats and Recovery:
Guidelines For Objectives HA-02 through HA-07.242
Livestock/Wildlife Conflicts: Guidelines For Objective HA-07.243
Human Uses and Values.244
Collaboration: Guidelines Related to Objective HU-Ol .244
Minimizing Shifts in Commercial Activity: Guidelines Related to
Objective HU-05.245
Economic Diversity: Guidelines Related to Objective HU-07.245
Risks from Wildfire: Guidelines Related to Objective HU-09.247
Recreation Guidelines: Related to Objectives HU-O10 through HU-Ol 2 .. 247
Visual Quality: Guidelines Related to Objective HU-013.251
Federal Trust Responsibility and Tribal Rights and Interests.252
Government-to-Government Cooperation and Relations: Guidelines
Related to Objectives TI-Ol.252
Sense of Place: Guidelines For Objective TI-02.253
Road Management.253
Roads: Guidelines For Objectives RM-02 through RM-04.253
Adaptive Management and Monitoring.254
Adaptive Management: Guidelines Related to Objective AM-Ol .254
Monitoring: Guidelines Related to Objective AM-02.255