Opinion ID: 751671
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Heading: The Bureau of Land Management Response

Text: 14 The BLM completed its own POC Management Guidelines on October 5, 1994. These Guidelines contain management objectives, implementation strategies, measures for timber sale and service contracts to minimize spread of the fungus, and specifications for equipment washing and cleaning. The Guidelines provide lists of fungus control strategies and timber sale and service contract mitigation measures to be applied after site-specific NEPA analyses. Several BLM Resource Management Plans (RMPs) include references to the POC Management Plan in their EIS statements regarding POC resource management. The Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC), a plaintiff in this case, protested the BLM's alleged failure to consider the alternatives of prohibiting logging and road building in uninfected watersheds to prevent the spread of the fungus in its EISs. The BLM denied ONRC's protests.