habitat effectiveness and setting specific numeric standards for open motorized road density, total 

 motorized road density and core habitat tor each BMU. 



Flathead National Forest 



The Flathead National Forest LRMP (1986), or Forest Plan, includes a goal to recover and conserve the 

 grizzly bear (pages II-5 and II-7) and calls for standards that ensure all management achvities and 

 projects involving grizzly bears and their habitat be planed, designed and implemented in accordance 

 with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Guidelines (pages 11-25 through 11-33). The Flathead Forest also has 

 management plans for the Bob Marshall, Mission Mountains and Great Bear Wilderness Areas. 



An amendment to the Forest Plan in 1995 (Amendment #19) provides specific forest-wide objectives and 

 standards for direcHon for grizzly bear habitat and timber management, and establishes the primacy of 

 such guidelines over all other plan direction. Principle changes in forest-wide standards for the grizzly 

 bear rec]uire that there be no net increase in total motorized access density greater than 2 miles/square 

 mile, no net increase open motorized access density greater than 1 mile/square mile and no net decrease 

 in the amount or size of secure core area. Specific objectives are summarized below. 



Helena National Forest (HNF) 



The Helena Forest Plan (1986) provides direction and guidelines for the management and conservation of 

 grizzly bear habitat. This direction is described in the Forest-wide Goals (FP-II/1), Forest-wide Objectives 

 (FP II/4), Fore.st-wide Standards (FP 11-17, 19), Individual Management Area direction (FP III/56, 59, 60), 

 Management Areas Monitoring Requirements (FP III/96), Forest Plan Monitoring Requirements (FP IV/8) 

 and Forest Plan Appendix A (resolution of Issues and Concerns), D (Guidelines for Management of 

 Grizzly Bear Habitat), E, (Grizzly Bear Management Outside of Recovery Zones), and N (Oil and Gas 

 Leasing). 



All of the HNF that lies within the NCDE Recovery Zone is classified as either MS 1 or MS 2. In addition 

 to Appendix D, which provides guidelines for management of grizzly bear habitat both within and 

 outside the recovery zone, the Plan also identifies forest-wide standards that directly or indirectly benefit 

 grizzly bears and help minimize effects of roads and other activities on grizzly bears across the Forest. 



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