Utah Fire Amendment

Utah National Forest Fire Amendment

Landscape assessments for the six National Forests in Utah have identified many ecosystems in conditions that threaten their long-term resiliency, integrity, and sustainability. The assessments clearly show that fire is needed in these ecosystems at scales and frequencies much greater than originally analyzed in existing forest plans.

New information concerning fire management has been developed in recent years, and fire management policies at the national level have changed. in 1998, the forest supervisors of the six National Forests in Utah (Ashley, dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, Uinta and Wasatch-Cache) agreed that these changes needed to be incorporated in forest plan direction for fire management (both use and suppression of fire). they decided to work together to develop consistent direction for the six forest plans.

Utah Fire Amendment Documents

Decision Notice, Finding of No Significant Impact and Finding of Non-Significant Amendment

Utah Fire Amendment

Utah Fire Amendment Appendices

• Appendix One - List of Preparers
• Appendix Two - Glossary of Terms
• Appendix Three - List of Those Who Commented
• Appendix Four - References
• Appendix Five - Threatened, Endangered, Proposed Species, Conclusion of Effects
• Appendix Six - Sensitive Species, Conclusion of Effects
• Appendix Seven - Comparison of Existing Forest Plan Direction with Alternative B Direction
• Appendix Eight - Fire Ecology of Major Cover Types