Geneva Preston
7:55 - 8:54
“within the Haines State Forest resource management area, 300 foot buffer around anonymous streams and 500 foot like retention buffers around lakes with anadromous fish populations apply throughout the forest.”
- Speaker
- Geneva Preston
- Timestamp
- 7:55 – 8:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Haines
- Captured at
From the transcript
Some units have fewer of those limitations and just focus on the sustained yield and Forest Resources and Practices act requirements. Scenic values are considered in the design of timber sales on these resource needed lands. But those specifics of how scenic resources would be managed, effects of timber harvest would be mitigated, would be specified in forest land use plans. So you won't see specific prescriptions or actions outlined in this management plan. And within the Haines State Forest resource management area, 300 foot buffer around anonymous streams and 500 foot like retention buffers around lakes with anadromous fish populations apply throughout the forest.
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