Introduction

• Purpose of This Field Guide
• Increased Risk of Catastrophic Fire
• Delays Caused by Procedural and Administrative Processes
• Healthy Forests Initiative
  • NEPA Categorical Exclusions
  • Guidance for Environmental Assessments of Forest Health Projects
  • USDA Forest Service Appeals Rule Amendments
  • DOI BLM Full Force and Effect Regulations
  • DOI Appeals Rules Amendments
  • New Endangered Species Act Procedures
  • Stewardship Contracting
  • DOI Administrative NEPA Improvements
• Healthy Forests Restoration Act

Environmental Analysis Requirements for HFI and HFRA Projects

• Healthy Forests Initiative
  • Categorically Excluding Hazardous-Fuel-Reduction Actions
  • Environmental Assessments
• Healthy Forests Restoration Act
  • Developing the Proposed Action and Alternatives
• Decision Diagrams

Title I of the HFRA—Hazardous-Fuel Reduction on NFS and BLM Land

• Wildland-Urban Interfaces Within or Adjacent to At-Risk Communities
• At-Risk Municipal Watersheds
  • Determination of Significant Risk
  • Documentation
• Threats to Ecosystem Components or Forest or Rangeland Resources
  • Determination of Significant Threat to an Ecosystem Component or Forest or Rangeland Resources
  • Determining Whether Blowdown or Ice-Storm Damage Increases Risk to an Ecosystem Component or Forest Resources
  • Determining the Existence of an Insect or Disease Epidemic
  • Evaluating the Threats Posed to Ecosystem Components or Forest or Rangeland Resources
  • Documentation
• Threatened and Endangered Species
  • Determining the Threat of Fire and the Need for Enhanced Protection
  • Documentation
• Old-Growth and Large-Tree Retention
  • Old Growth
  • Large-Tree Retention
• Administrative Review
• Judicial Review
  • Documentation
• Setting Priorities and Collaborating
  • Identifying At-Risk Communities
  • Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans
  • Setting Priorities Collaboratively
  • Providing Financial Assistance for Projects on Non-Federal Lands
  • The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
• Monitoring
  • Multiparty Monitoring
  • Monitoring Maintenance of Treated Areas
  • Reporting Accomplishments
  • Tracking Acres Burned

Title II—Biomass

• Research to Improve Biomass Use
• Rural Revitalization Through Forestry
• Biomass Commercial Utilization Grant Program

Title III—Watershed Forestry Assistance

• Watershed Forestry Assistance
• Tribal Watershed Forestry Assistance
• Developing Program Guidelines

Title IV—Insect Infestations and Related Diseases

• Accelerated Information Gathering
• Applied Silvicultural Assessments

Title V—Healthy Forests Reserve Program

Title VI—Miscellaneous

• North American Exotic Forest Pest Information System
• Forest Health Protection
• Rapid Pest Detection Program
• Pest Suppression
• Forest Health Monitoring
• Forest Inventory and Analysis

Glossary

References

• At-Risk Municipal Watersheds
  • Publications
• Threats of Insect or Disease Epidemics
• Threatened and Endangered Species
  • Web Sites
  • Publications
• Old-Growth and Large-Tree Retention
  • General Information
  • Ecological Definitions of Old Growth
  • Publications
  • Assessment-Level Information
  • Regional Planning Direction
  • Project-Level Guidance
• General
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