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The goals of management aze to provide healthy, self-perpetuating plant communities, meet water quality <br />standards, provide habitats for viable populations of wildlife and provide stable stream channels. <br />fhe mineral resources activities are compatible with goals of this management area subject to appropriate <br />stipulations as outlined in the general Forest Direction. <br />Water Resource Improvement and Maintenance (III-211) <br />Maintain sediment yield within threshold limits. <br />Improve or maintain water quality to meet State and Federal water quality standards <br />Treat disturbed areas resulting from management activities, to reduce sediment yield to the natural erosion <br />rates in the shortest time possible. <br />Stabilize stream banks which are damaged beyond natural recovery in a reasonable time period with <br />appropriate methods or procedures that emphasized control by vegetation. <br />Require concurrent monitoring to ensure that adaptive measures are effective and in compliance with state <br />water quality standards. <br />Soil Resource Management (III-212) <br />Rehabilitate disturbed soil areas where adverse impacts would occur according to the priority of riparian <br />ecosystems. <br />Prevent soil surface compaction and disturbance in riparian ecosystems. Allow use of heavy construction <br />~ equipment for construction during periods when the soil is least susceptible to compaction or rutting. <br />Maintain or enhance the long-term productivity of soils within the riparian ecosystem. <br />iVtining Law Compliance and Administration (III-212): <br />Minimize detrimental disturbance to the riparian area by mineral activities. Initiate timely and effective <br />rehabilitation of disturbed areas and restore riparian areas to a state of productivity comparable to that before <br />disturbance. <br />o Prohibit the depositing of soil material from drilling, processing or site preparation in natural drainage <br />ways. <br />o Prohibit stockpiling of topsoil or any other disturbed soil in the active floodplain. <br />o Discontinue heavy equipment use when soil compaction, rutting and puddling is present. <br />Locate mineral removal activities away from the water's edge or outside the riparian area. <br />o Drain and restore roads and (dig) sites immediately after use is discontinued. Revegetate to 80 percent of <br />ground cover in the first year. <br />o Provide surface management to protect the riparian azea during storm flow and snowmelt runoff. <br />Transportation System Management <br />Locate roads and trails outside riparian areas unless alternative routes have been reviewed and rejected as <br />being more envirorunentally damaging. <br />"~o Do not parallel streams when road location must occur in riparian areas except where absolutely <br />necessary. <br />Page 36 of 49 <br />