Guidelines for Prioritizing Actions
Give weight to the following factors (in no particular order, as the weight of each factor will depend on the unique situation of each action and forest):
1. Presence of endangered, threatened or candidate species and the possible impacts to them.
2. Presence of sensitive or other rare species and the possible impacts to them.
3. Whether in or next to a roadless area, inventoried or de facto, and the possible impacts to that area's future wilderness designation.
4. Proposed conversion of native, natural forest to plantation.
5. Impacts to trails or other recreational areas.
6. Impacts to old growth or near old growth forest.
7. Impacts to streams and water quality.
8. Nearness to and impacts to wilderness areas and/or wild and scenic rivers.
9. How clear the violations of law are in the decision:
a. violations of NEPA (lack of alternatives, lack of on-site data and info, failure to consider impacts),
b. violations of ESA,
c. violations of NFMA (exclusive use of even-aged alternatives),
d. violations of NHPA.
10. Impacts to historic and archeological resources.
11. Level of media exposure and public outrage.
12. Whether stopping this sale will act as a de facto stop on other upcoming sales, i.e., will holding up this sale tie up other planned sales?
13. Whether Forest Service lied about conditions of the project area and characteristics or facts of the project.