Environmental Assessment

IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES CHAPTER 2
Treatment Improvement Type Mitigation Measures
Fuels
Water Set
Range Study Plot
Trick Tank
Water Storage
Tank
Tree Plantation
Barbed Wire Fence
Water Set
Range Study Plot
Study Enclosure
Water
System/Water Line
Potential cheatgrass site - avoid use
during active grazing Leave 25 foot
buffer when cheatgrass is present.
Flag prior to treatment. Range
specialist to be on site during
implementation. Read all CT and 3way
enclosures prior to treatment.
Alternatively, protect using a 5 acre
buffer centered on the actual
transect.
300 foot buffer around site; clean up all
slash
Protect with “hard” fencing, new
improvement construction.
Potential cheatgrass site - avoid use
during active grazing. Leave 25 foot
buffer when cheatgrass is present.
Flag prior to treatment. Range specialis
to be on site during implementation.
Read all CT and 3-way enclosures prior
to treatment. Alternatively, protect usin
a 5 acre buffer centered on the actual
transect.
No burning/mowing at long-term
vegetation study plot including two
enclosures. 1500 foot buffer around
study area. Range to flag out prior to
implementation
Avoid driving over eastern shoulder of
unnumbered road just east of system
Road 2312 400 from intersection with
2313 north to section line of section 33,
T21S., R16E. and along east shoulder of
Road 437. Avoid putting fire on/over
any sections of exposed PVC pipe, water
troughs, wooden valve boxes, valves, etc.
Do not burn along Road 437.
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Units
Alternative 2 Alternative 3
SD08, P15, H14, H27, H28. P333, P334, C308, C325, C327
SD05, H11, H24, H37.
P02 P302
H25. C320
H19, H23 C314, C319
F03, F04, F05, F06, F08,
F09, F11, F13, F14, F15,
F16, F17, F18, F20, F30,
F32, F34, F35, F39, R1A,
R1B, R2A, R2B
F05, F06, F07, F09, F11, F13,
F18, F20, F21, F37, R1A, R2A
R2B
P330, C307, C320, C334,
F03, F04, F05, F06, F09, F11,
F13, F14, F15, F16, F17, F18,
F20, F30, F32, F34, F35, F39,
R1A, R1B, R2A, R2B
F05, F06, F07, F09, F11, F13,
F18, F20, F21, F37, R1A, R2A
R2B
F05, F20, F23, F38, F40, F43 F20, F23, F37, F38, F40, F43,
F13, F14 F13, F14
F32, F46 F32, F46
Trick Tank
300 foot buffer around site; clean up all
slash
F01 F01
Water Trough Waterline to be added; subsurface. F32 F32
Table 2-9 Road Related Mitigations to Minimize Conflicts with Grazing and Grazing Improvements
Action Needed Affected Roads Reason/Concern
Maintain road prior to implementation of
vegetation treatments and as needed by livestock
operator during the life of the permit.
Plan vegetation treatment(s)/livestock use at
separate times.
1829 200; 2300 080;
2017 540; and 2017
543.
2300 120
Ongoing use by shared users (Primarily OHV’s) while
livestock are present. Maintenance of cattle guard near
the intersection of the 540 and 543 roads, especially as
OHV use continues to increase.
Implementation of vegetation treatment up slope and
continued shared OHV use concurrent with livestock use
in the South Pasture. Concern is due to condition of
existing road, proximity to water set, the shared use of the
road as it is used to trail livestock, and in general existing
step slopes.