<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Helena – Lewis and Clark National Forest FEIS, 2020 Forest Plan Chapter 3, Part 2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><<</span><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">>></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Page 247</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">It is also possible that continued drought (and/or associated large disturbances) may cause shifts to nonforested vegetation types on some of the driest lands, and thus the lands suitable for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">timber production and/or volume outputs could decrease.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Page 284 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Future warm and dry climates, as well as disturbances, may pose risks to forests in terms of growth, mortality, and regeneration potential; such factors</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> could affect timber outputs. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">=====================================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Helena – Lewis and Clark National Forest FEIS, 2020 Forest Plan Chapter 3, Part 1</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><<</span><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743366.pdf" class="">https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743366.pdf</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">>></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">The risk of changing regeneration dynamics is not limited to dry forests. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Several studies have found that post-fire seedling establishment of moist and subalpine forests may decline due to drought and wildfire (Andrus et al., 2018; Harvey, Donato, & Turner, 2016; Stevens-Rumann et al., 2017). </span></div></div></span></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>======================================================<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees... ”<br class=""> </span><br class="">Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. <br class="">Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance. Science 21 August 2015<br class="">======================================================</div><div><br class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Revised Forest Plan 2020,FEIS, Chapter 3, Part 2</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf</span></a>>></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">“<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Ultimately, the U.S. market<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">demand </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">for lumber is a derivative for the demand for construction of residential and commercial structures. As a derived<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">demand,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span>lumber markets tend to reflect shifts in national housing construction rates. Across subsectors, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">residential construction in particular</span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">is the single largest </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">consumer</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> of lumber nationwide</span>”</span> p.240</div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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