Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

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Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy LG 2 - Rangeland Health September 2005 Rangelands are healthy and sustainable over the long-term. Rangelands are meeting or moving toward forest plan, ecosystem, and site-specific desired conditions. • Prioritize and perform an interdisciplinary team rangeland assessment (e.g., long-term condition and trend transects and proper functioning condition assessments (PFC)) to determine if key areas are meeting or moving toward desired conditions and resource objectives. Adjust livestock management as necessary. • Evaluate ecosystem health. Indicators used in the evaluation include, but are not limited to: measures of riparian structure and function; the amount and distribution of noxious weeds and invasive nonnative species; soil health; threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species habitat; rare plant species vigor; plant community composition and structure; sensitive heritage resources; and water quality. Adjust livestock management as necessary. • Review and incorporate the Forest Plan Noxious Weed Management Strategy. • Implement Best Management Practices for Water Quality. Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 2 - Reduce the impacts from invasive species, objective 1, 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. LG 3 - Wildhorse Territories Wildhorse populations and distribution are managed as specified in the approved Territory Management Plan. The Wildhorse territory remains suitable and sustainable over the long-term. • Periodically review the approved Territory Management Plan and the forest plan to assess whe ther desired conditions are being met or being moving towards. If necessary amend the Wildhorse Territory Management Plan to meet the forest plan desired conditions. 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 142
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy Reduce the number of human-caused wildland fires and associated human and environmental impacts. Focus fire prevention programs on the urban interface, threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species habitat, vegetative areas threatened with type conversion, and areas of major recreation use: • Consider application of fire retardant along roads and adjacent to areas of high recreation use where human-caused wildland fires are frequent. • Fire 1 - Fire Prevention • Consider full or partial national forest closures when there is a lack of firefighter capability, or extreme weather and fuel conditions that would result in unstoppable wildland fires. Continue with environmental and fire prevention education in local schools. Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 1- Reduce the risk from catastrophic wildland fire, objective 2. Fire 2 - Direct Community Protection Reduce the number of high risk/high value, and high and moderate risk acres using both mechanical treatments and pre scribed fire. Identify and schedule for treatment in the high risk and high value acres near communities, including the installation of Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) Defense and Threat Zone vegetation treatments. Highest priority should be given to those areas with substantial drought and insect-killed vegetation that present a significant threat to life and property in entire communities: • Prom ote removal of tree mortality adjacent to structures as the first step in reducing threats to human life and investments. • When National Forest System lands are managed for direct community protection, consider the use of Memorandums of Understanding with Fire Safe Councils as a means of allowing residents to meet State fire law or county brush clearance ordinances on a combination of private and public lands. • Herbicides may be used in the WUI Defense Zone on National Forest System land to avoid expensive treatments of resprouting chaparral species. Linked to National Strategic Plan Goal 1- Reduce the risk from catastrophic wildland fire, objectives 1 and 3. Page 143
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