Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

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Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy ME 1 - Minerals Management September 2005 Administer minerals and energy resources to afford commodities for current and future generations commensurate with the need to sustain the long-term health and biological diversity of ecosystems: • Limit withdrawals from mineral entry in order to maintain opportunities to access mineral and energy resources. • Assure long-term access and availability for leasing of oil and gas resources from environmentally suitable lands, for regional, statewide and national energy needs. • Use terms and conditions of the operating plan to offset the effects of mining consistent with conservation of habitats for threatened, endangered, or sensitive species. • Eliminate unapproved and noncompliant minerals operations. • Facilitate environmentally and culturally sensitive exploration, development, and production of mineral and energy resources on National Forest System lands open to these activities or on withdrawn lands consistent with valid existing rights, and integrate these activities with the planning and management of other resources. • Work with California Department of Fish and Game to prohibit suction dredging in areas where needed to protect threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species. • Work with the Bureau of Land Management to formalize the status of abandoned and idle wells and ancillary facilities and the restoration of the land to natural conditions. • For approved mining operations within occupied threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species habitat, riparian habitat, or other areas with species of concern monitor mining operations as needed to ensure compliance with plans of operation. ME 2 - Biomass Utilization Seek opportunities to use by-products from forest thinning and mortality removal for production of energy. Page 140
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy LG 1 - Livestock Grazing Livestock grazing areas are maintained and remain sustainable and suitable over the long-term. • Administer each livestock grazing area to standard within a three-year period. Administering a livestock grazing area to standard includes: ensuring compliance with terms and conditions of the permit, allotment management plans, annual operating instructions, biological opinions, and forest plan standards. Permittees monitor for compliance with the permit standards and guides. The permittee submits monitoring and allotment management reports to the national forest officer in charge when requested (FSH 2209.13, 15.14b). • Review and consider the Region 5 Permit Suspension and Cancellation Guidelines for noncompliance with permit terms and conditions (FSH 2209.13, 16.2, 16.21d). • Plan and implement range structural improvements, such as but not limited to, water developments, and barbed wire fences that are maintained in a serviceable condition. Structural improvements will incorporate wildlife protection measures when allotment management plans are revised or new improvements are planned. • Utilize suitable vacant allotments, other livestock grazing areas, and transitory range for available forage or utilize these areas to move active livestock grazing areas toward meeting resource and rangeland management desired conditions. • Review and apply the appropriate rangeland management practices necessary to meet or move toward desired conditions. Rangeland management practices include, but are not limited to: regulation of livestock numbers and distribution; season and degree of use; salt placement locations; and placement of structural improvements. Fencing should be considered as a last resort after other management practices have been determined to be ineffective. Water developments should be considered outside of riparian areas and where such developments would lessen the degree of riparian use. Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 5 - Improve watershed condition, objectives 1, 2, and 3, and Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals, objectives 1 and 3. Page 141
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