for the minimum number of road miles. The SFLMP recommends that 

 roads not needed for management activities for three years or more 

 be considered non-essential and that they be closed with slash and 

 rocks to prevent unauthorized use and to prevent erosion. 



Alternative A has no harvest and no new roads. 



Alternative B has 1.3 miles of new permanent open road and 1.5 miles 

 of new permanent but closed road for 2.8 miles total. The open road 

 would be partially the easement exchange and partly modifications to 

 reduce erosion problems to an existing trail in Section 26 by 

 relocating it to more suitable terrain. 



Alternative C has the same 1.3 miles of new permanent open road and 

 2.9 miles of new permanent but closed road for a total of 4.2 miles. 

 (The extra 1.4 miles as compared to Alternative B as needed to reach 

 from Unit 1 to Units 7 & 8) . 



Alternative D has 1.2 miles of the new permanent open road (part of 

 the relocation from Alternatives B & C not needed here), and 3.2 

 miles of new permanent but closed road, for a total of 4.4 miles. 

 The extra mileage being the connection from Unit 8 to the French 

 Creek Road. 



Located along the proposed road between Unit 1 and Unit 7 is the old 

 regenerated burn area. Portions of this stand are overstocked now 

 and other portions will be, as the existing regeneration matures. 

 Access for thinning in this stand would be available if the road 

 proposed in Alternative C or D is built. However, this management 

 action is not needed within the next three years. 



The DNRC has recently begun a landscape analysis for the Wolf Creek, 

 Lyons Creek and Medicine Rock Creek drainages. This analysis being 

 a preliminary step to the development of an initial proposal for 

 helicopter yarding from state lands in these drainages. It is 

 probable, but uncertain at this time, that access to the Gladstone 

 area would again be needed for this future proposal. This future 

 proposal, if made and selected, would probably occur within the next 

 three years . 



If Alternative D is selected, then future access to Gladstone would 

 not need to be renegotiated for future management actions. 



If the new connecting route in Alternative D is adequately locked, 

 signed and monitored, then increased public use and its inherent 

 problems would not likely occur. When no actions were expected for 

 the next three years, then the SFLMP would give a priority to 

 closing this road with slash and rocks to prevent long term problems 

 while maintaining the bulk of the capital investment. 



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