Description: <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The MNF Management Plan, or more specifically, the 2006 <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21393847/Forest_Plans/Mon%20NF%20Land%20and%20Resource.pdf" style="color: rgb(25, 130, 209); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Monongahela National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan</a>, guides natural resource management activities on lands administered by the Monongahela National Forest. It describes management direction and practices, resource protection methods and monitoring, desired resource conditions, and the availability and suitability of lands for resource management.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The purpose of the Plan is to provide management direction to ensure sustainable ecosystems and resilient watersheds that are capable of providing a sustainable flow of beneficial goods and services to the public. The Plan is the implementing guide for fulfilling the Forest Service mission: “To sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The Forest Plan embodies the provisions of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA), as amended by the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) and its implementing regulations. The management prescriptions in the Plan are designed to realize goals and objectives for achieving desired conditions.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The ACP-EMS displays the Plan’s management prescription areas, which “provide specific management emphasis and direction to different areas of the Forest”. The following is a summary of management direction for the prescription areas intersected by the proposed pipeline study corridors.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Source: USFS in response to FOIA request. Obtained 12/04/2015.</p>
Copyright Text: Monongahela National Forest; US Forest Service
Description: <p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><font color="#444444" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="2">The GWNF Management Plan, or more specifically, the 2014 </font><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21393847/Risks_%26_Sensitivities/CKS/stelprd3822820-ENTIRE%20DOC.pdf" target="_blank">Revised Land and Resource Management Plan for the George Washington National Forest</a><font color="#444444" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="2">, provides for the ecological, social and economic sustainability of the natural resources on lands administered by the George Washington National Forest (GWNF). Desired conditions, land use allocations, suitable management practices, objectives, standards, and monitoring and evaluation requirements are the statements of the Plan’s management direction for the next 10 to 15 years. The Plan is the implementing guide for fulfilling the mission of the Forest Service: “to sustain the health,diversity, and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.”</font></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The ACP-EMS displays the Plan’s management prescription areas, which “reflect different desired conditions and suitable uses, or allowable activities”. The following is a summary of management direction for the prescription areas intersected by the proposed pipeline study corridors.</span><br /></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><a href="https://https//pipelineupdate.org/george-washington-national-forest-management-prescriptions/" target="_blank">More Information</a><br /></p>
Copyright Text: George Washington National Forest; US Forest Service
Description: The Revised National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) directs the management of the Jefferson National Forest. The Forest Plan provides direction to assure coordination of multiple-uses (outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, wildlife and fish, and wilderness) and sustained yield of products and services [16 USC 1604 (e)]. It fulfills legislative requirements and addresses local, regional, and national issues and concerns.
Copyright Text: Jefferson National Forest; US Forest Service