The environmental assessment (EA), Proposed Property Acquisition Blue-Eyed Nellie Wildlife Management Area North Lily Property, in reference to the NEPA Environmental Assessment Checklist, has the proper parts for a well-written assessment. The purpose and need statement is full of rich content allowing the reader to feel fully versed on the topic. It describes the property in question in detail along with the vegetation and animals populating the area. The ability to partake in the purchase is illustrated through the authority of the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (MFWP) given by state law (Vinkey, 2006). The overall monetary cost of the purchase was disclosed in the description of the action in the assessment. Alternatives to the proposed action were also given. Also an extensive and informative environmental effects section was developed to strengthen the argument for the purchase. Lastly in the assessment the issue of public involvement was addressed and a statement that an environmental impact statement was not needed.
The management plan for the land combined with previously acquired land was divulged. An introduction to the plan was given including the description of the overall proposed wildlife management area (WMA) (Vinkey, 2006). A goal section listed the objectives for the purchase along with the problems that need to be taken of care and the planned strategies to reach those goals. Monitoring of the WMA was the final part of the given management plan.
The last section of the proposal was the Socio-Economic Assessment North Lily Property Fee Title Acquisition. The socio-economic assessment detailed the law authorizing and purpose of the acquisition. A brief synopsis of the current population and use of th...
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...etical or actual need to be used to quantify the impact. The EA and the socio-economic assessment also need not to contradict each other on the county tax levy without the purchase.
The wildlife and vegetation sections of the environmental effect of action need to be partially rewritten. The contradiction about the impact on the bull trout needs to be removed. Presumed development is not a quantifying assessment of impact on the westslope cutthroat trout or the bighorn sheep. The weed control suggested by the management plan needs to be developed more, giving the means of control, and the impacts of said control.
In conclusion the EA is a good start and structurally sound. A few ideas need to be expanded or quantified. The biased language of the author should be toned down. Lastly a couple contradictions need to be rewritten to form continuity in the EA.
Policies are often put in place without regards for the effect it will have on other areas, people, or wildlife. Several examples of these unintended consequences are shown in the documentary Salmon: Running the Gauntlet, which explains the effects that human activity, dams, and attempts to repopulate the salmon species have been implemented and failed. With proper evaluation at the onset of a major project, these severe consequences may be avoided.
...nd enjoyable. The one thing that did bug me was that Youngs does not directly tie his thesis directly to the end of the book. It would have been helpful for the reader to be able to confirm Youngs’s intention for writing the book, but since he fails to re-introduce his argument in the end, it left me questioning that intention.
Committee on Senate Energy and National Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. 3 June 2003: ESBCO. Mission Viejo Library., Mission Viejo, CA. 31 July 2005. http://web31.epnet.com/citation.
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My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
The proposed territory of the South Okanagan- Similkameen National Park Reserve is located in the South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys in southern British Columbia, currently comprised of five Provincial Protected Areas. These areas include the 4700 hectare Mt. Kobau Site situated on the height of land between the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys; the 1850 hectare Chopaka East Site situated on Black Mountain, between Richter Pass and the International Boundary; the 470 hectare Chopaka West Site situated between Richter Mountain and the International Boundary; the 2350 hectare Kilpoola Site situated north and south of Highway 3 including the southeast slopes of Mount Kobau, Blue Lake and Kruger Mountain to the International Boundary; and the 25889 hectare Snowy Protected Area situated between the Lower Similkameen Indian Reserve. These areas, with the exception of Snowy Protected Area, compose the South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area. Potential future additions of Crown and private lands would possibly see large tracts of land north and south of Mt. Kobau along with tracts north and east of the existing boundaries of Snowy Protected Area.
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