Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy
Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy
Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy
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<strong>Land</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> <strong>Part</strong> 2<br />
<strong>Los</strong> <strong>Padres</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong><br />
LG 2 - Rangeland Health<br />
September 2005<br />
Rangelands are healthy and sustainable over the long-term. Rangelands are meeting or moving<br />
toward forest plan, ecosystem, and site-specific desired conditions.<br />
• Prioritize and perform an interdisciplinary team rangeland assessment (e.g., long-term<br />
condition and trend transects and proper functioning condition assessments (PFC)) to<br />
determine if key areas are meeting or moving toward desired conditions and resource<br />
objectives. Adjust livestock management as necessary.<br />
• Evaluate ecosystem health. Indicators used in the evaluation include, but are not limited to:<br />
measures of riparian structure and function; the amount and distribution of noxious weeds<br />
and invasive nonnative species; soil health; threatened, endangered, proposed,<br />
candidate, and<br />
sensitive species habitat; rare plant species vigor; plant community composition and<br />
structure; sensitive heritage resources; and water quality. Adjust livestock management<br />
as<br />
necessary.<br />
• Review and incorporate the <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> Noxious Weed <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong>.<br />
• Implement Best <strong>Management</strong> Practices for Water Quality.<br />
Linked to <strong>National</strong> Strategic <strong>Plan</strong><br />
Goal 2 - Reduce the impacts from invasive species, objective 1,<br />
Goal 5 - Improve watershed condition, objectives 1, 2, and 3, and<br />
Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals,<br />
objectives 1 and 3.<br />
LG 3 - Wildhorse Territories<br />
Wildhorse populations and distribution are managed as specified in the approved Territory<br />
<strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>. The Wildhorse territory remains suitable and sustainable<br />
over the long-term.<br />
• Periodically review the approved Territory <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> and the forest<br />
plan to assess<br />
whe ther desired conditions are being met or being moving towards. If necessary amend the<br />
Wildhorse Territory <strong>Management</strong><br />
<strong>Plan</strong> to meet the forest plan desired conditions.<br />
Linked to <strong>National</strong> Strategic <strong>Plan</strong><br />
Goal 5 - Improve watershed condition, objectives 1, 2, and 3, and<br />
Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals,<br />
objectives 1 and 3.<br />
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