Draft Environmental Impact Statement – Volume 1, Summary Proposed Revised Land Management Plans iv for the Blue Mountains National Forests Table S-1. Comparison of how each alternative addresses the issue

ISSUE / Alternative B / Alternative C / Alternative D / Alternative E / Alternative F
Access / • Road density changed from a standard and guideline to a desired condition.
• Designates the most backcountry limited motor vehicle use management areas (618,800 acres) and some backcountry nonmotorized (78,600 acres).
• No wildlife corridor designated. / • Road density changed from a standard and guideline to a desired condition.
• Management areas feature backcountry nonmotorized (586,300 acres) and wildlife connectivity (502,000 acres).
• No backcountry motorized.
• One mile per square mile open route density in wildlife corridor. / • Road density changed from a standard and guideline to a desired condition.
• Retains the areas that currently are generally suitable for motor vehicle use, resulting in more area suitable for summer and winter motor vehicle use compared to the other alternatives. / • Road density changed from a standard and guideline to a desired condition.
• Management areas feature backcountry nonmotorized (228,100 acres), backcountry motorized (425,200 acres), and connective wildlife corridors (28,100 acres). / • Road density changed from a standard and guideline to a desired condition.
• Management areas feature backcountry nonmotorized (228,100 acres), backcountry motorized (425,200 acres), and connective wildlife corridors (28,100 acres).
Ecological resilience / • Moderate level of management actions to restore ecological resilience.
• No change to treatments to restore forested vegetation.
• The combination of vegetation treatments, roads treatments, and grazing practices results in improvements in watershed condition in 4-23 sub-watersheds. / • Highest level of resource-specific objectives for managing some wildland fires to meet desired landscape conditions and watershed restoration.
• Emphasizes improving hydrologic function and connectivity within anadromous and bull trout Key Watersheds. / • Highest level of resource-specific objectives for forest vegetation restoration.
• Management allocations emphasize areas where active forest management may occur. / • Higher level of objectives for watershed restoration and emphasis on improving hydrologic function and connectivity within anadromous and bull trout Key Watersheds.
• Includes specific objectives for managing wildland fires to meet desired landscape conditions and aggressive objectives for treating invasive plants. / • Higher level of objectives for watershed restoration and emphasis on improving hydrologic function and connectivity within anadromous and bull trout Key Watersheds.
• Includes specific objectives for managing wildland fires to meet desired landscape conditions and aggressive objectives for treating invasive
Economic and social well-being / • Predicted annual timber harvest: 87 MMBF, 650 jobs.
• Expected number of jobs from timber, range, ecosystem restoration: 3,737. / • Predicted annual timber harvest: 47 MMBF, 288 jobs.
• Expected number of jobs from timber, range, ecosystem restoration:2,822. / • Predicted annual timber harvest: 243 MMBF, 2,040 jobs.
• Expected number of jobs from timber, range, ecosystem restoration: 5,413. / • Predicted annual timber harvest: 162 MMBF, 1,330 jobs.
• Expected number of jobs from timber, range, ecosystem restoration: 4,496 / • Predicted annual timber harvest: 107 MMBF, 838jobs.
• Expected number of jobs from timber, range, ecosystem restoration: 3,909
Issue / Alternative B / Alternative C / Alternative D / Alternative E / Alternative F
Livestock grazing/ grazing land vegetation / • Slightly lower objective levels than existing numbers and locations for cattle and sheep.
• Reduces the risk of disease spread from domestic sheep to big horn sheep. / • Significantly reduces the number of cattle and sheep AUMs.
• Classifies riparian areas and subwatersheds with habitat for listed fish species as generally unsuitable for cattle grazing. / • Objective levels similar to existing numbers and locations for cattle and sheep.
• Reduces the risk of disease spread from domestic sheep to big horn sheep, but allows grazing to occur in previously vacant allotments. / • Livestock levels the same as the proposed action.
• Standards and guidelines for sage grouse protection are included. / • Livestock levels the same as the proposed action.
• Standards and guidelines for sage grouse protection are included.
Old forest / • No designated old forest management areas.
• Old forest managed where it occurs on the landscape.
• Desired conditions provide old forest management direction.
• Restrictions on large tree harvest (trees greater than 21-inch d.b.h.) are included but exceptions allowed for safety, wildland-urban interface, maintaining open ponderosa pine stands, as well as reducing competition in hardwood stands and special habitats. / • Designates old forest management areas (390,900 acres).
• Only trees 8 inches d.b.h. or less authorized for timber harvest in this management area.
• Management activities outside old forest stands retain live old forest trees (greater than 21-inch d.b.h.).
• Desired conditions provide old forest management direction.
• Vegetation treatments emphasize wildland fire (wildfires or prescribed fires) rather than mechanical treatments rather than. / • No designated old forest management areas.
• Old forest managed where it occurs on the landscape.
• No standard or guideline prohibiting the harvest of trees greater than 21-inch d.b.h. or trees with old forest characteristics.
• Desired conditions provide old forest management direction.
• Vegetation treatments emphasize mechanical treatments rather than wildland fire (wildfires or prescribed fires). / • No designated old forest management area.
• Retains trees with old forest characteristics across the landscape.
• No standard or guideline prohibiting the harvest of trees greater than21 inch d.b.h.
• Desired conditions provide old forest management direction.
• Vegetation treatments would emphasize both mechanical treatments and prescribed fire. / • No designated old forest management area.
• Retains trees >150 years old.
• No standard or guideline prohibiting the harvest of trees greater than21 inch d.b.h.
• Desired conditions provide old forest management direction.
• Vegetation treatments would emphasize both mechanical treatments and prescribed fire.
Wilderness / • Recommended wilderness:13,400 acres / • Recommended wilderness: 505,000 acres / • No wilderness recommended. / • Recommended wilderness: 91,000 acres / • Recommended wilderness: 91,000 acres