Current Forest Plan direction is to specify mitigations for management activities affecting air quality and coordinate control with regulatory agencies. The Plan will identify ways to lower impacts to air quality such as car pooling or using low emission snowmobiles. Incorporate air quality related values and the levels of acceptable change in Class I areas. Incorporate the latest methods and findings for monitoring air quality. This section identifies information that may be used to address issues and concerns.
Data is information organized for analysis or used as the basis for making a decision.
A related item, comparison measures, is data used to differentiate and select between different alternatives. These are actions needed to address issues and concerns during revision that do not fall into the above three categories. Effects analysis needs to include a discussion of alternative effects on carbon banking and whether there is a net increase or decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. This section identifies public issues and management concerns that are addressed in the Working Papers for other revision topics. Not Addressed These are public issues and management concerns that are not addressed as part of the revision process.