Invasive Plants Treatment Project
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Final Environmental Impact Statement
The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest completed the Invasive Plants Treatment Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) to provide guidance for containing, controlling, or eradicating invasive plant species in accordance with the direction found in the Region 6 Invasive Plant FEIS and ROD.
A large number of new and existing invasive plant populations on the national forest required analysis to implement new or more effective and cost-efficient treatment actions, including the updated list of herbicides, as analyzed in the Region 6 Invasive Plant FEIS. Current inventories indicate that invasive plant infestations are broadly distributed and occupy approximately 22,842 acres on the national forest.
The purpose of this project is to provide a rapid and more comprehensive, up to date approach to the control and eradication of invasive plants on National Forest System lands.
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Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Umatilla, and Grant counties in Oregon
Adams and Nez Perce counties in Idaho
Note: All documents are in Adobe PDF format unless indicated. File size in parentheses.
- Record of Decision (signed April 2, 2010) (419.6kb) (Please note - The 2010 Record of Decision was vacated in part, by a District Court decision in December 2012. A Supplemental EIS is currently being prepared to address the insufficiencies identified by the Court.)
- Biological Opinion, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (7.62mb)
- Biological Opinion, National Marine Fisheries Service (654.3kb)
Biological Assessment, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests
- Cover and Chapter I Introduction (143.4kb)
- Chapter II Proposed Action (324.2kb)
- Chapter III Listed Fish Species, Designated Critical Habitat, and Essential Fish Habitat (417.7kb)
- Chapter IV Listed Plant Species (252.1kb)
- Chapter V Listed Wildlife Species (61.2kb)
- Chapter VI Literature Cited (122.1kb)
- Appendix A (55kb)
- Appendix B (95.9kb)
- Appendix C (474kb)
- Appendix D (26.2kb)
- Appendix E (226.7kb)
- Appendix F (62.9kb)
- Appendix G (264kb)
- Appendix H (2.1kb)
- Appendix I (4.4kb)
- Appendix J (25.8kb)
Invasive Plants Treatment Project FEIS Volume I
- Cover, Abstract, and Summary (1.2kb)
- Table of Contents (227.6kb)
- Chapter 1 Purpose and Need for Action (490.3kb)
- Chapter 2 Alternatives (16.5mb)
- Chapter 3 Affected Environment and Environmental Consequences (3.9mb)
- Chapter 4 List of Preparers (622.3kb)
- Chapter 5 Response to Comments (7.2mb)
Invasive Plants Treatment Project FEIS Volume II Appendices
- Cover and Table of Contents (1.3mb)
- Appendix A Wallowa-Whitman Forest Plan (3mb)
- Appendix B Botany (287.4mb)
- Appendix C Wildlife (142.1kb)
- Appendix D Soil and Water (285.1kb)
- Appendix E Aquatics (299.4kb)
- Appendix F Aerial Modeling Results and Spray Guidelines (589.8kb)
- Appendix G Adjuvants and Drift Reduction Agents (48.2kb)
- Appendix H Social-Economics (46.9kb)
- Errata Sheet (9.3kb)
Invasive Plants Treatment Project Development
Public Scoping Letter April 14, 2006 (22.2kb)
- Proposed Action (13.1kb)
- Proposed Action, Examples of Species Treatment Prescriptions (20.4kb)
- Federal Register Notice of Intent to Prepare the Environmental Impact Statement April 13, 2006 (54kb)
- Proposed Acres of Treatment Types by Ranger District April 7, 2006 (7.9kb)
- Acres of Invasive Plant Species by Treatment Type April 7, 2006 (15.6kb)
- Acres of Invasive Plants by Ranger District (7.9kb)
- Status of Biological Controls in the Pacific Northwest Region April 2005 (54.7kb)