2.0 Alternatives Including the Proposed 

 Action 



2.1 Introduction 



Chapter 2: Alternatives Including the Proposed Action is the heart of this EA. The 

 purpose of Chapter 2 is to describe the alternatives and compare the alternatives by 

 summarizing the environmental consequences. 



Alternatives were planned through scoping and development of issues, input from 

 Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) specialists, and requirements of the Administrative 

 Rules for Forest Management. In addition, compliance with trust mandates helped to 

 shape alternatives. This chapter describes the activities of Alternative A: No Harvest 

 (No Action) and Alternative B: Harvest. Then based on the descriptions of the 

 relevant resources in Chapter 3: Affected Environment and the predicted effects of all 

 alternatives in Chapter 4: Environmental Consequences, this chapter presents the 

 predicted attainment of project objectives and the predicted effects of all alternatives 

 on the quality of the human environment in comparative form, providing a clear 

 basis for choice among the options for the decisionmaker and the public. 



This chapter has seven sections: 



• History and Process Used to Formulate the Alternatives 



• Alternative Design, Evaluation, and Selection Criteria 



• Alternatives Considered But Eliminated from Detailed Study 



• Description of Proposed Alternative 



• Suggested Mitigation Measures of Alternative B: Harvest 



• Description of Relevant Past, Present, and Reasonably Foreseeable Future DNRC 

 Actions Not Part of the Proposed Action 



• Summary Comparison of the Activities, the Predicted Achievement of the Project 

 Objectives and the Predicted Environmental Effects of All Alternatives 



2.2 History and Process Used to Formulate the 

 Alternatives 



In September 2003, following the Fish Creek Complex fires, a DNRC 

 Interdisciplinary Team began analyzing the project area and initiated internal review 

 and public scoping to develop a management plan. Only two responses were received 

 from external parties. The major environmental issues identified during the scoping 



Fish Creek Salvage Environmental Assessment 2-1 



