By the Numbers
According to the planning Rule, this is the number of required topics to be included in the Assessment.
What is 15?
A former Lieutenant in the Navy who has a dog named Muir, this is one of the EPSGs newest Project Leads
Who is Naomi Braker?
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?
PSC
What is the Planning Service Center?
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?
In the FSH 1909.12 this is the chapter covering public participation.
What is 40?
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?
Measurement of specific conditions, a description of operating behaviors (physical, biological, social, or economic), or an estimation of trends.
What is Accuracy?
BA
What is a Biological Assessment?
or
Basal Area?
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 Code of Federal Regulations the Forest Service is covered under this Title number.
What is 36?
This Planner began their career on the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie before transferring to the Chequamegon-Nicolet.
Who is Leesha Howard-McCauley?
This is not required to identify BASI, however the degree to which it does not exist may lead to conflicting sources being determined as BASI.
What is Scientific Consensus?
ACHP
What is the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation?
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?
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 5000?
A former Assistant Professor at the Lincoln University of Missouri this Senior Analyst joined the Forest Service in 2021.
Who is Azad Henareh?
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?
ESRI
What is the Environmental Systems Research Institute?
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?
The FSH 1909.12 identifies this number of topics for which one or more monitoring questions must be developed.
What is 8?
This Assistant Planner is fluent in 4 different languages.
Who is Cheik Ouedraogo?
Regardless of whether through a list or by other methodology in the Assessment and in the Decision Document, BASI and contradictory BASI should be described thusly.
What is Briefly?
BWCAW
What is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness?
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)?