Included in the project proposal are 

 the following pertinent 

 recommendations of the Flathead 

 Basin Forest Practices, Water 

 Quality and Fisheries Cooperative 

 Program Final Report, June 1991. 



The following numbers correspond to 

 the numbering of recommendation 

 items contained within the 

 aforementioned document, included in 

 pages 154-162 of the Final Report. 



1 . BMPs are incorporated into the 

 project design and operations of 

 the proposed project. 



2. Riparian indicators will be 

 considered in the layout of the 

 harvest units. 



3 . Management standards of the SMZ 

 are used in conjunction with the 

 recommendations of the study. 



4. The BMP audit process will 

 continue. This sale will likely 

 be reviewed in an internal audit 

 and may be randomly chosen as a 

 State-wide audit site. 



7. SMZs would be evaluated as part 

 of the audit process. 



12. Watershed- level planning and 



analysis are completed. Logging 

 plans of other agencies and 

 private companies are used. 



14. DNRC is cooperating with DFWP on 

 the further study of fish 

 habitat and populations for Goat 

 and Squeezer creeks . 



15. DNRC will use the best available 

 methods for logging and road 

 building for this project. 



16A. Existing roads are fully 



utilized for this proposal and 

 brought up to BMP standards. 



16B. DNRC utilizes BMPs, 



transportation planning, and 

 logging system design to 

 minimize new road construction. 



17. DNRC contracts with DFWP to 

 obtain species composition, 

 spawning inventory, and spawning 

 habitat quality for Goat and 



18. 



Squeezer creeks. DNRC's 

 mitigation plan for roads fits 

 all recommendations for 

 "impaired" streams. Using 

 "worst-case-scenario" criteria 

 provides for conservative 

 operations in this proposal. 



Provisions in the Timber Sale 

 Contract address BMPs, which are 

 rigidly enforced. 



20. Long-term monitoring of Soup 



Creek, as well as other streams 

 on Swan River State Forest, is 

 planned. 



29-34. DNRC has cooperated with DFWP 

 to continue fisheries work. 

 DNRC will continue to monitor 

 fisheries on Swan River State 

 Forest in the future as funding 

 allows . 



GRIZZLY BEARS 



• The Action Alternative would meet 

 the intent of the SVGBCA. 



• To discourage or minimize the 

 potential for bear-human 

 conflicts, roads and landings will 

 be grass seeded to revegetate with 

 plant species less palatable to 

 grizzly bears. 



• Contractors are required to haul 

 away or store garbage in a safe 

 place to ensure bears are not 

 attracted to the area. 



• No logging camps are allowed 

 within the sale area. 



• The Forest Officer will 

 immediately suspend activities 

 directly related to the proposed 

 salvage project to prevent 

 imminent human/grizzly bear 

 confrontation, or confrontation 

 between other threatened or 

 endangered species and humans. 



• Contractors are prohibited from 

 carrying firearms onto closed 

 roads while working under 

 contract . 



• Healthy trees not big enough to be 

 harvested will be retained, when 

 possible, to provide screening. 



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