Alternative Development

The Forest Plan Revision Team met with hundreds of people in-person in January and February 2018 to discuss "Frameworks for Alternative Development." The feedback gathered at these meetings helped the team shape the alternatives that will now be developed as part of Forest Plan Revision.

Alternatives are different ways of looking at how resources are managed to deal with unresolved conflict among available uses for the land managed by the Forest Service,  and reflect the wide variety of perspectives from members of the public. The environmental, social, and economic impacts of each alternative will be analyzed in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). All alternatives must be consistent with existing law, regulation, and policy; in particular, the 2012 Planning Rule. Furthermore, alternatives must all contribute to ecological and social sustainability and must assist the Forest Service in doing our part to sustain rural communities and economics.

A summary of the alternatives to be analyzed, as well as feedback from Framework for Alternative Development public meetings, is summarized in the following document:

Summary of Alternatives to be Analyzed, and "What We Heard During Frameworks for Alternative Development" (15 MB .PDF)

Management Area Maps

Please see below for maps depicting Management Areas for each Alternative to be analyzed (W, X, Y, and Z), as well as the No Action alternative and a map comparing actions for each alternative listed above.

• Alternative W (11 MB .PDF)
• Alternative X (11 MB .PDF)
• Alternative Y (11 MB .PDF)
• Alternative Z (11 MB .PDF)
• Action Alternative Comparison Map (10 MB .PDF)
• No Action Alternative  (11 MB .PDF)