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These are the (3) BASI sources that the Planning Rule specifically requires the IDT to use in assessing Recreation Settings, Opportunities and Access, and Scenic Character.
What are the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum, Scenery Management System, and the National Visitor Use Monitoring system.
Per the Planning Rule Zero Code, this term is defined as "a reflection of how appropriately the scientific methods have been applied and how consistent the resulting information is with established scientific principles."
What is Reliable?
A former Lieutenant in the Navy who has a dog named Muir, this is one of the EPSGs Project Leads.
Who is Naomi Braker?
Public Law 86-517
This Act was the first congressional directive to the Forest Service to manage for 5 separate uses with consideration being given to the relative values of the various resources, and not necessarily the combination of uses that will give the greatest dollar return or the greatest unit output.
What is the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960?
According to the planning Rule, this is the number of required topics to be included in the Assessment.
What is 15?
This term refers to the geographic area surrounding the revising Unit that serves as the spatial scale to evaluate social, cultural, and economic conditions.
What is the Primary Area of Influence?
This BASI descriptive term is defined as "Measurement of specific conditions, a description of operating behaviors (physical, biological, social, or economic), or an estimation of trends."
What is Accuracy?
With a Masters in Engineering this Project Lead also serves as an Adjunct Professor and is working on a PhD in Forensic Science.
Who is Jimmy Shaw?
Public Law 93-205
The primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
What is the Endangered Species Act of 1973?
In the FSH 1909.12 this is the chapter covering public participation.
What is 40?
In the Planning Rule, chapters 219.8 (Sustainability), 219.9 (Diversity of Plant and Animal Communities), 219.10 (Multiple Uses), and 219.11 (Timber Requirements Based on the NFMA), together, make up "this" type of requirements.
What are the Substantive Requirements?
This level of agreement is not required to identify BASI; however, its absence may lead to conflicting sources being proposed as BASI.
What is Scientific Consensus?
This Planner began their career on the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie before transferring to the Chequamegon-Nicolet.
Who is Leesha Howard-McCauley?
Public Law 106-554
This Act is a two sentences long rider in a 2001 spending bill which in part directs agencies to:
"issue guidelines ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by the agency"
What is the Information Quality Act?
or
Data Quality Act?
In the Code of Federal Regulations the Forest Service is covered under this Title number.
What is 36?
Outstandingly Remarkable Values for river eligibility into the Wild and Scenic Rivers designation system must be outstandingly remarkable at "this" scale.
What is Regional or National.
As described in the Zero Code, this is a formal or informal process a Responsible Official may initiate when data gaps, controversy, or risk are considerations when determining BASI.
What is a Science Review?
A former Assistant Professor at the Lincoln University of Missouri this Senior Analyst joined the Forest Service in 2021.
Who is Azad Henareh?
Public Law 93-112
Though originally passed in 1973 this Act first introduced "508 compliance" into the lexicon in a 1986 amendment.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This is the minimum number of acres for Wilderness Designation, unless evaluation determines a smaller size area can be practically preserved and used in an unimpaired condition.
What is 5,000?
Of the plan components: Desired Conditions, Goals, Objectives, Standards, Guidelines, and Suitability of Lands; it is the only optional plan component.
What are Goals?
BASI used in the planning process should be "this," which OBM defines as the ability to have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector decisions.
What is Influential?
This Assistant Planner is fluent in 4 different languages.
Who is Cheik Ouedraogo?
Public Law 93–378
Is the law that was amended by P.L. 94-588 the National Forest Management Act of 1976, thereafter requiring that all National Forests management be guided by a Forest Plan.
What is the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA)?
The FSH 1909.12 identifies this number of topics for which one or more monitoring questions must be developed.
What is 8?