Comparison of 2001 and 2004 620 DM 3 Emergency Stabilization Allowable Actions.

Emergency Stabilization Allowable Actions
2001 Policy – Material Deleted		WFLC 8/15/02 Policy Framework	2004 Policy (3.7.M) – Material Added
Allowable Actions 3.5.C(3)	Can Include 3.5.C(4)
(a) Prevent or mitigate threats to human health and safety or property, including roads and trails.	(a) Replacing or repairing facilities essential to public health and safety… (h) Monitoring and patrolling necessary for public safety … protection, if such activities cannot be accomplished within existing capabilities and by shifting priorities.	* Replacing/repairing (minor) facilities essential to public health and safety.	(1) Replacing or repairing minor facilities essential to public health and safety when no other protection options are available. (4) Increasing road drainage frequency and/or capacity to handle additional post-fire runoff.
(b) Stabilize soil to prevent or mitigate loss or degradation of productivity.	(b) Physical structures and devices to slow the movement of soil and water downslope, such as check dams, culverts, silt fences, log erosion barriers and straw wattles, erosion cloth and soil netting, etc. These treatments are primarily temporary measures that do not generally require maintenance or are removed after objectives have been met	* Seeding and mulching to prevent erosion. * Structural measures to slow soil and water movement.	(3) Stabilize soil to prevent loss or degradation of productivity. (2) Placing structures to slow soil and water movement.
(c) Stabilize watersheds to prevent unacceptable downstream damage on and off site, including significant erosion or mass wasting.	(d) Seeding or planting of shrubs, forbs, and grasses … to prevent erosion or mass wasting.
(d) Minimize unacceptable deterioration of water quality.	(f) Seeding or planting trees, only if such actions have been demonstrated to be cost-effective in meeting project objectives of stabilizing watersheds to prevent downstream damage on and off site.
(e) Protect emergency stabilization treatments, utilizing fencing, patrolling, or other measures.	(a) … replacing or constructing fences or other structures necessary to protect emergency stabilization projects or to prevent further degradation of natural and cultural resources during the project period.	*Protective fences or barriers to protect treated or recovering areas.	(5) Installing protective fences or barriers to protect treated or recovering areas.
(f) Stabilize and prevent unacceptable degradation of historic properties listed on or potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, or Federal and State listed threatened or endangered species or their habitat.	(h) Monitoring and patrolling necessary for … cultural resource protection, if such activities cannot be accomplished within existing capabilities and by shifting priorities. (i) Covering, camouflaging, cleaning, burying, or reinforcing historic properties to prevent erosion, weathering, movement, and looting.	* Stabilize critical heritage resources. * Patrolling, camouflaging, burying significant heritage sites to prevent looting.	(8) Stabilizing critical heritage resources. (9) Patrolling, camouflaging, burying significant heritage sites to prevent looting.
(g) Establish or reestablish native species to prevent or minimize the establishment of non-native invasive species, and facilitate long-term ecosystem restoration goals stated in land management plans. Such actions will be specified in the emergency stabilization section of the ESR Plans only when immediate action is required, or when there are clear precedents and such actions are a routine element of all ESR Plans within similar vegetation types. Otherwise, ESR Plans may contain a rehabilitation section that outlines the general need for such actions, but defers specific actions until post-fire rehabilitation needs assessments are completed. Treatment specifications developed from these assessments may be funded as a supplement to the ESR plan, for up to two growing seasons after fire control.	(e) Seeding or planting of shrubs, forbs, and grasses to facilitate the natural succession of vegetative communities that were largely composed of native species before the fire, but which would likely be subject to immediate and aggressive invasion of non-native invasive (g) Use chemical, biological or mechanical treatments necessary to minimize the establishment or re-establishment of non-native invasive species within the burned area. species after the fire.	* Seeding to prevent establishment of invasive plants. * Direct treatment of invasive plants.	(10) Seeding to prevent establishment of invasive plants, and direct treatment of invasive plants. Such actions will be specified in the emergency stabilization plan only when immediate action is required and when standard treatments are used that have been validated by monitoring data from previous projects, or when there is documented research establishing the effectiveness of such actions. (11) Using integrated pest management techniques to minimize the establishment of non-native invasive species within the burned area. When there is an existing approved management plan that addresses non-native invasive species, emergency stabilization treatments may be used to stabilize the invasive species.
	(c) Conducting habitat damage assessments for threatened, endangered, and other special status species to identify mitigation requirements. Damage assessments and treatments are limited to species that are known to be detrimentally impacted by wildland fire, or those for which there is reasonable expectation of detrimental impacts. Also, there must be reasonable expectation that the detrimental impacts can be mitigated. The scope and cost of mitigation should be the minimum necessary to alleviate significant threats.	* Conducting assessments of critical habitat and significant heritage sites in those areas affected by emergency stabilization treatments.	(6) Conducting assessments of critical habitat and significant heritage sites in those areas affected by emergency stabilization treatments.
	(d) Seeding or planting of shrubs, forbs, and grasses to prevent critical habitat for federal listed threatened or endangered species, or other special status species, from being permanently impaired…	* Seeding or planting to prevent permanent impairment of designated Critical Habitat for Federal and State listed, proposed or candidate threatened and endangered species.	(7) Seeding or planting to prevent permanent impairment of designated Critical Habitat for Federal and State listed, proposed or candidate threatened and endangered species.
	(j) Assessments may be conducted to assess damage to documented historic properties or those discovered in the course of treating known properties.	* Conducting assessments of habitat and significant heritage sites in those areas affected by emergency stabilization treatments.	(6) Conducting assessments of critical habitat and significant heritage sites in those areas affected by emergency stabilization treatments.
			(12) Monitoring of treatments and activities for up to three years.

Comparison of 2001 and 2004 620 DM 3 Burned Area Rehabilitation Allowable Actions.

Burned Area Rehabilitation Allowable Actions
2001 Policy	WFLC 8/15/02 Policy Framework	2004 Policy
(a) Repair or improve lands unlikely to recover naturally from wildland fire damage by emulating historical or pre-fire ecosystem structure, function, diversity, and dynamics consistent with existing land management plans.	* Habitat restoration	(1) Repair or improve lands unlikely to recover naturally from wildland fire damage by emulating historical or pre-fire ecosystem structure, function, diversity, and dynamics consistent with existing land management plans.
(b) Restore or establish a healthy, stable ecosystem even if this ecosystem cannot fully emulate historical or pre-fire conditions.	* Invasive plant treatment.	(2) Chemical, manual, and mechanical removal of invasive species, and planting of native and non-native species, consistent with 3.8F, restore or establish a healthy, stable ecosystem even if this ecosystem cannot fully emulate historical or pre-fire conditions.
(c) Tree planting is limited to: (i) Facilitating the succession and stabilization of forest ecosystems. (ii)Re-establishing habitat for federally listed threatened or endangered species, or other special status species. (iii)Reintroducing or reestablishing native tree species and seed sources lost in a stand replacement fire. (iv) Regenerating Indian trust commercial timberland identified in an approved Forest Management Plan, and that a certified silviculturalist has determined will not naturally regenerate for more than 10 years after the fire.	* Tree planting to reestablish burned habitat, reestablish native tree species lost in fire, and regenerating Indian trust commercial timberland.	(3) Tree planting to reestablish burned habitat, reestablish native tree species lost in fire, prevent establishment of invasive plants, and regenerating Indian trust commercial timberland as prescribed by a certified silviculturalist to not regenerate for ten years following the fire.
(d) Repair or replace fire damage to minor operating facilities (e.g., campgrounds, interpretive signs an exhibits, shade shelters, grazing fences, wildlife guzzlers, etc). Rehabilitation may not include the planning or replacement of major infrastructure, such as visitor centers, residential structures, administration offices, work centers and similar facilities. Rehabilitation does not include the construction of new facilities that did not exist before the fire, except for temporary and minor facilities necessary to implement burned area emergency stabilization and rehabilitation efforts.	* Repair or replace fire damage to minor operating facilities (e.g., campgrounds, exhibits, fences, guzzlers, etc.). * Heritage site restoration * Fence replacement.	(4) Repair or replace fire damage to minor operating facilities (e.g., campgrounds, interpretive signs and exhibits, shade shelters, fences, wildlife guzzlers, etc.). Rehabilitation may not include the planning or replacement of major infrastructure, such as visitor centers, residential structures, administration offices, work centers and similar facilities. Rehabilitation does not include the construction of new facilities that did not exist before the fire, except for temporary and minor facilities necessary to implement burned area rehabilitation efforts.