Department of Agriculture April 25, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal of ecosystem management in the Bussel 484 Project Area, which is approximately 14,600 acres in size. Opportunities were developed through a comparison of existing project are conditions with desired future conditions for all the resources in the project area. The proposed action was developed utilizing the Idaho Panhandle Forests Forest Plan, a roads analysis, an ecosystem assessment at the watershed scale, findings from the St. Joe Geographic Assessment and the Upper Columbia River Basin Assessment, the National Fire Plan along with trends observewd by interdisciplinary specialists conducting on-the-ground assessments.