FOREST PLAN
DOCUMENTS
The following
documents appear in the new Land and Resource Management Plan
for the Los Padres National Forest, released on September 23,
2005.
Click on a link to
access the document directly from our website.
DECISION
This is the legal
document that summarizes the Forest Service's decision to
approve the new management plan for the Los Padres National
Forest.
Record of Decision -
Los Padres National Forest
FINAL LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN
This is the new Land Management
Plan (often called a "Forest Plan") that establishes standards
and guidelines to manage the forest for the next ten years. The
Forest Plan consists of three separate documents:
Please be
patient...these are large documents that will take a few moments
to download.
Forest Plan Part
1 - Southern California National Forests Vision (6.42 MB)
Forest
Plan Part 2 - Los Padres National Forest Strategy (10.68 MB)
Forest
Plan Part 3 - Design Criteria for the Southern California
Forests (2.10 MB)
Final Environmental Impact
Statement
This
is the Forest Service's analysis of environmental impacts that
will occur as a result as the agency carries out its plan. This
analysis is mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act.
COMING SOON! These documents
are huge, so we are working to convert them into a more
user-friendly format. Check back in a few days to access these
documents directly from our web site. In the meantime, you can
access this 1,300-page document on the agency's web site by
clicking one of the following links:
FEIS Executive Summary (556 kB)
FEIS Chapters 1-5 (6.97 MB)
FEIS Appendices (14.53 MB)
ERRATA
The Forest Service has
released three "errata sheets" to correct errors in the final
documents.
Errata Volume 1
- Published September 15, 2005
Errata Volume 2
- Published October 24, 2005
Errata Volume 3
- Published October 27, 2005
READING ROOM
These are other background documents
referenced in the FEIS or Forest Plan.
Species Accounts - Animals (3.63 MB)
Species Accounts - Plants (5.57 MB)
Habitat Status Reports (425 kB)
Wild & Scenic River Evaluations (1.07 MB)
Inventoried Roadless Area and Wilderness Evaluations (1.27
MB)
Roads Analysis Process (1.81 MB)
Sociodemographic Profiles for Outdoor Recreation Visitors
(16.13 kB)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biological Opinion (1.03 MB)
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