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vegetation management. A document about the Coastal Plain/Pied- i mont area was released earlier this [ year. Another document, covering ; Arkansas and Oklahoma, will be re-j leased next spring.
The George Washington Na- • tional Forest is covered by the Appalachian Mountains document. The EIS covers activities conducted in! conjunction with site preparation for ! reforestation, timber stand manage- ; ment, wildlife openings maintenance, rights-of-way corridor maintenance, treatments for wild- 1 fire hazard reduction, mountaintop bald maintenance and recreation i area maintenance.
It analyzes potential environ- ; mental effects from five different methods of vegetation management. • Those are mechanical equipment I (such as bulldozers and tractors), , prescribed fire, manual tools (such j, as chainsaws and axes), herbicides 1 and livestock grazing.
Eight alternatives, varying the !; number of acres treated, frequency ' • of treatments, methods and tools :• used and intensity of treatments, f are thoroughly analyzed.
The preferred alternative recom- - mends treatment of about the same amount of acres called for in re-, cently-completed Forest Plans.; Treatments, however, are less in-; tensive and more selective. This al- • temative also allows 900 acres — or' slightly less than one percent of the total treatments of any kind — to be; treated each year by aerially apply- ‘ ing herbicides to utility and pipeline * corridors. '
The public is encouraged to com-1 ment on the EIS and the USDA For- * est Service will accept these!
comments until Feb. 17, 1989, Mr. j Alcock said. j
Comments should be sent to: USDA Forest Service, VMT, Room 362 South, 1720 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30367-9102.
Or, call Team Leader Steve McCorquodale at 404-347-7076.
Copies of the documents are available for inspection and review at that same address and at all Forest Supervisor’s offices throughout
the south. A 14-page summary is I also available. ;
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