Sage Steppe Ecosystem Restoration Strategy EIS

Project Summary

Completion Date: 2008

Partners

  • US Forest Service

  • USDI Bureau of Land Management

JW Associates was the prime consultant for a project to analyze options for reducing the density of juniper stands within the sage steppe ecosystem on 6.5 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in northeastern California. This project was a programmatic approach to landscape-scale restoration of the sage steppe ecosystem.


The JWA team has finished work on the Final EIS and the ROD has been signed. The analysis for the project was done at a programmatic, landscape level and may require amending BLM Resource Management Plans for the Alturas, Surprise, and Eagle Lake Field Offices. 

JWA Project Actions

  • Programmatic, landscape level analysis

  • Project management

  • NEPA and public involvement leaders

  • Management of subcontractors to assemble a specialized, technical team

  • GIS analysis

  • Scoping an public outreach

  • Facilitation of 9 public meetings and organization of public comment periods, including field meetings

  • Preparation of 13 specialist reports

  • Preparation of draft and final EIS documents

Benefits

  • Restore habitat conditions for sage grouse and other sage-obligate species

  • Enhance hydrologic functions

  • Reduce the risk of wildfire

Key Issues Addressed

  • Impacts on livestock grazing during restoration efforts

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