3 Bars ecosystem and landscape restoration project
Subtitle: draft environmental impact statement
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Battle Mountain, Nevada
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands; Management; Rangelands; Weed control; Prescribed burning; Weeds; Biological control; Environmental aspects
Other titles: Three Bars ecosystem and landscape restoration project : draft environmental impact statement; Draft environmental impact statement : 3 Bars ecosystem and landscape restoration project
Description: This Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzes the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts associated with the Bureau of Land Managements (BLMs) proposed land restoration treatments on the approximately 749,810-acre 3 Bars ecosystem. The BLM evaluated three action alternatives and the No Action Alternative. Alternative A is the BLMs Preferred Alternative. Under this alternative, the BLM would treat about 127,000 acres during the life of the  project using manual and mechanical methods, fire (both prescribed and wildland fire for resource benefit), and  biological control (use of livestock and classic biological control [nematodes, fungi, mites, and insects] primarily to  control noxious weeds and other invasive non-native vegetation). Alternative B differs from Alternative A in that the BLM would not use prescribed fire and wildland fire for resource benefit, and the BLM would treat only about 63,500  acres. Under Alternative C, the BLM would only treat vegetation within treatment areas using manual methods and classical biological control; use of livestock for biological control would not be allowed.
Notes: "DOI-BLM-NV-B010-2011-0200-EIS"--Cover.