What are readers going to find in the EISs, and what are they not going to find?
They will see a strong emphasis on boundaries formed by watersheds, both large and small. The larger ones we call subbasins, which average about 800,000 acres. There are 164 of them in the project area. We group these subbasins with similar conditions into what we call “clusters.” When the reader looks for the consequences of the alternatives, which is in Chapter 4, they will find the impacts reported for each EIS area. These are large areas, so there are several National Forests and BLM Districts aggregated together. Since the EISs are at a broad geographic level, readers will NOT likely find much if anything about their favorite local areas. We summarized information for each EIS area. Readers will not find timber harvest levels for each National Forest. They will not find wildlife habitat impacts or impacts to fish at less than the whole EIS area. This kind of information will come at a more local level, from individual land-use plans on National Forests and BLM Districts.
