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| R4: Intermountain | Ashley (2024) |
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| Ashley (2024) |
Ambient air quality across the Ashley National Forest complies with Federal and state standards and air quality management plans.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Air quality across the Ashley National Forest supports human and ecosystem health, visibility, recreation, multiple use, and wilderness values—recognizing that short-term smoke impacts may periodically occur from wildland fires.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Annual deposition of air pollutants is below published critical loads or levels for targeted resources on the Ashley National Forest.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Smoke emissions from wildland fires on the Ashley National Forest resemble the pattern, degree, and frequency of natural fire regimes.
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| Ashley (2024) |
The Forest Service should consider emission reduction strategies to reduce impacts to resources if project emissions are identified as a potential concern. Emission reduction strategies may include, but are not limited to, cleaner equipment, cleaner More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Soil quality and productivity are sustained or improving, allowing soil resources to maintain key ecological functions. Soil biological, chemical, and physical processes cycle nutrients and carbon. This sustains the biological diversity and productiv More ...
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Organic materials, including coarse woody debris and plant litter, are sufficient to maintain soil surface organic horizons, provide moisture retention, and prevent accelerated erosion. Organic additions to soils sustain soil nutrients, carbon, organ More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Where natural site conditions allow, biological soil crusts are present and maintained to improve nutrient cycling, add organic matter, and stabilize soils, including areas of desert-shrub, rangelands, sagebrush, and alpine ecosystems.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Effective ground cover prevents or minimizes sheet, rill, and gully erosion. Accelerated soil erosion is minimal, short-term (due to precipitation or soil disturbance), or due to the inherent erosiveness of parent materials.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Previously managed areas that have incurred detrimental soil disturbance recover through natural processes and restoration activities.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Soils are managed to maintain or increase soil organic carbon.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Vegetation management projects should not exceed 15 percent detrimental soil disturbance within the activity area from impacts of combined pre-existing and new management-caused detrimental soil disturbance. Where the preexisting conditions of detrim More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Areas occupied by landings, temporary roads, and main skid trails in timber projects and timber sales should, post-project reclamation, have a minimum of 60 percent effective ground cover for distances needed on those surfaces (project specific) to p More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Vegetation management in conifer stands should retain coarse woody debris at the completion of management activities for soil ecological function and wildlife. Downed wood maintains soil carbon, organic matter, fertility, and moisture and supports mu More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Ground-based mechanical equipment for vegetation management should not be operated in areas where sustained grades exceed 40 percent. This is to minimize the likelihood of soil compaction, displacement, and erosion. Exceptions may be made in specific More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
National Core Best Management Practices and Regional Handbook soil and water conservation practices as well as project-specific design features and mitigations should be used and developed as needed to protect soils from compaction, displacement, and More ...
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| Ashley (2024) |
Watersheds and watershed features such as streams, lakes, riparian areas, and wetlands are able to respond and adjust to disturbance without long-term adverse effects on their physical or biological integrity.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Watersheds are healthy and resilient, providing clean water for designated beneficial uses on the Ashley National Forest and for downstream communities.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Streams, springs, seeps, wetlands, and riparian areas are resilient to disturbance and to the warmer and drier climates that are predicted.
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| Ashley (2024) |
Streams are in equilibrium with their water and sediment supplies, maintaining channel dimensions, particle size, entrenchment ratios, and sinuosity representative of their watershed setting. Floodplains are accessible to overbank flows. Sediment dep More ...
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