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Fire Management Plan for Lewis and Clark NHP and Fort Clatsop Unit Forest Restoration Plan
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The public is invited to review and comment on two Environmental Assessments (EA):
Fire Plan for Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Fort Clatsop Unit Forest Restoration Plan
These documents have been prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to provide the decision framework for the following:
• Analysis of a reasonable range of alternatives to meet management objectives;
• Evaluation of potential issues and impacts to natural and cultural resources and values and the human environment; and,
• Identification of mitigation measures to lessen the degree of those impacts.
The Lewis and Clark NHP Fire Plan is a five-year plan required by NPS policy for all NPS lands with burnable vegetation. At Lewis and Clark NHP, these lands include the Yeon Unit, the Fort Clatsop Unit, Dismal Nitch, Cape Disappointment and Station Camp & Middle Village. Under this plan, fuels treatments would be used to restore the natural landscape to approximate conditions in the Chinook and Clatsop homelands during the late 18th and early 19th century, reduce hazardous fuels and control invasive plants.
The Fort Clatsop Unit Forest Restoration Plan proposes to restore approximately 1,000 acres of former forest plantation within the Fort Clatsop Unit to forests representative of those that occupied the Clatsop homeland during the visit of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
These plans are being released together because they both address management of the park's forests.
The public is invited to join the National Park Service for a meeting and field tour. Meeting details are below:
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Fort Clatsop Visitor Center
The EAs are available for review and comment online at the park web site: www.nps.gov/lewi. If you would like to comment on the EA, please e-mail comments to carla_cole@nps.gov or mail comments to: Superintendent, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Attention: Forest and Fire EA, 92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, Oregon 97103. Requests for a printed copy of the EAs can also be made by calling 503-861-4443. Printed copies of the EA are available for review at the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center, at the Astoria, Warrenton-Hammond and Seaside Public Libraries, and at the Ilwaco Timberland Library.
The public comment period will close June 6, 2011.
Fire Plan for Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Fort Clatsop Unit Forest Restoration Plan
These documents have been prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to provide the decision framework for the following:
• Analysis of a reasonable range of alternatives to meet management objectives;
• Evaluation of potential issues and impacts to natural and cultural resources and values and the human environment; and,
• Identification of mitigation measures to lessen the degree of those impacts.
The Lewis and Clark NHP Fire Plan is a five-year plan required by NPS policy for all NPS lands with burnable vegetation. At Lewis and Clark NHP, these lands include the Yeon Unit, the Fort Clatsop Unit, Dismal Nitch, Cape Disappointment and Station Camp & Middle Village. Under this plan, fuels treatments would be used to restore the natural landscape to approximate conditions in the Chinook and Clatsop homelands during the late 18th and early 19th century, reduce hazardous fuels and control invasive plants.
The Fort Clatsop Unit Forest Restoration Plan proposes to restore approximately 1,000 acres of former forest plantation within the Fort Clatsop Unit to forests representative of those that occupied the Clatsop homeland during the visit of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
These plans are being released together because they both address management of the park's forests.
The public is invited to join the National Park Service for a meeting and field tour. Meeting details are below:
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Fort Clatsop Visitor Center
The EAs are available for review and comment online at the park web site: www.nps.gov/lewi. If you would like to comment on the EA, please e-mail comments to carla_cole@nps.gov or mail comments to: Superintendent, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Attention: Forest and Fire EA, 92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, Oregon 97103. Requests for a printed copy of the EAs can also be made by calling 503-861-4443. Printed copies of the EA are available for review at the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center, at the Astoria, Warrenton-Hammond and Seaside Public Libraries, and at the Ilwaco Timberland Library.
The public comment period will close June 6, 2011.