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<br />, n:":i'~1!. <br />~.I'J~'~~v:t <br /> <br />Table S-l (Continued) <br /> <br />COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVES <br /> <br />SUMMARIZED COMPARISON OF THE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES <br /> <br />RE- <br />SOURCE/ <br />RE- <br />SOURCE <br />USE <br /> <br />MANAGEMENT UNDER EACH ALTERNATIVE <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE A <br />(Continuation or <br />CUlTent <br />Management) <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE B <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE C <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE D <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVE E <br />(PrerelTed <br />Alternative) <br /> <br />RIPARIAN <br />ZONES <br />(Conl'd) <br /> <br />Accomplish riparian <br />management objectives in <br />current Resource Area <br />Habitat Management Plan <br />at current rate. <br /> <br />'limber b8J'VeSU excluded <br />in aU riparian areas. <br /> <br />Existing water source <br />developments modified, if <br />riparian zones arc being <br />negatively impacted. <br /> <br />Projects irnplemenced in <br />some riparian areas on <br />21,810 ac= of sage <br />grouse riparian habitat for <br />improved riparian <br />vegetation. <br /> <br />Impn:we overall riparian <br />conditions on 14,933 acres <br />or riparian areas, and in <br />riparian areas in unit B- <br />II. <br /> <br />Rehabilitate riparian <br />zones where ecological or <br />hydrological condition is <br />deteriorated and require <br />measures to reduce <br />deterioration oC riparian <br />ecosystems in surface <br />disturbing plans on 7,298 <br />acres or an sage grouse <br />habitat. <br /> <br />Area wide HMP revised <br />to include riparian roDe <br />managemenl. <br /> <br />Improve overall riparian <br />Compatible projects conditions on 14,933 acres <br />designed to achieve oCriparianareas, including <br />abundant vegetBtlve cover, in riparian zones in unit <br />aD increase in diversity of D.14 (76,752 acres of Manage about 56 miles of <br />herbaceous plants and in Xsage grousc habitat) and riparian zones in unit&: E- <br />the proportion oC native D.22 (108,335 acre& of -1- 11 and &14 to improve <br />buo.chgrasses for sage allotments). and maintain vegetation to <br />grouse on 5 miles in unit optimize sage grouse <br />C~10 (602 acres) are Compatible projeccs populations. <br />permiued; vegetation designed to achieve <br />production and diversity abundant vegetative COYer, <br />would be increased for big an increase in diversity oC <br />game and other wildlife herbaceous plants and in <br />on 10 miles oC riparian the proportion of native <br />zones in unit e9. bunchgrasses Cor sage <br />grouse in high priority <br />areas on 99 miles in unit <br />0-12 (9,657 act<<) would <br />be pennitted. <br /> <br />Riparian improvement <br />projects permitted in unit <br />C9 (1,117 ac=). AIea- <br />wide HMP revised to <br />include riparian zone <br />management from units <br />C9, C.IO, C-lI, <br /> <br />Improve overall riparian <br />conditions on 1,839 acres <br />in units C-9, C10, and C. <br />11 and rehabilitate zonC$ <br />in unit CI0 where hydro- <br />logic condition is below <br />potential. <br /> <br />In unil ClI (120 ac=), <br />compatible improvement <br />strategies and projects <br />would be permitted. <br /> <br />Measures to mlnUDlZC <br />riparian/aquatic zone <br />deterioration required in <br />all plans involving surface <br />disturbance. <br /> <br />limber barvest&: excluded <br />in all riparian areas. <br /> <br />Existing water sources in <br />riparian areas modified or <br />relocated if riparian rones <br />arc being negatively <br />impacted. <br /> <br />Vegetation production and <br />diversity would be <br />increased for big game <br />and wildlife on 76 miles oC <br />crudal big game riparian <br />zones in unit 0.11 (12,462 <br />Bcres), <br /> <br />Measures to minimize <br />riparian/aquatic zone <br />deterioration required in <br />all plans involving surface <br />disturbance. Special road <br />construction objectives <br />adbered to. <br /> <br />limber harvests pennitted <br />in riparian areas if <br />riparian and wildlire <br />values improved. <br /> <br />Existing water sources and <br />roads in riparian a1'Cas <br />modified or relocated iC <br />riparian zones arc being <br />negatively impacted. <br /> <br />About 99 miles of riparian <br />zones in 91,547 acres of <br />big game crucial winter <br />range in unit E.12 would <br />be managed to increase <br />production and diversity <br />of vegetation to help <br />6uppon wintering big <br />game; a HMP for 1!-12 <br />would include riparian <br />zone management. <br /> <br />S-5 <br />