Indiana Bat Planning and NEPA Documents

On August 1, 2000, Forest Supervisor John Ramey issued Nantahala/Pisgah Forest Plan Amendment 10,  incorporating terms and conditions required by the USDI Fish & Wildlife Service to protect and maintain habitat for the endangered Indiana Bat  in western North Carolina. Following are the environmental and planning documents associated with this decision. They are all in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.  You will need to have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 to view and/or print them.

Nantahala/Pisgah Nation forest Plan Amendment 10:
      (Issued August 1, 2000)
    Letter from the Supervisor  (28 kb pdf)
    Decision Notice   (100 kb pdf)
    Environmental Assessment   (348 kb pdf) 
    Appendix A:  N/P Plan Amendment 10  (71 kb pdf)
    Appendix B: Response to Comments  (64 kb pdf)
    Appendix C: USFS Biological Assessment  (161 kb pdf)
    Appendix D: USFS Biological Evaluation  (354 kb pdf)

Background Information
   U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Indiana Bat Web Site
    U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biological Opinion on Indiana Bat  4/10 ( 253 kb pdf)*
     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biological Opinion on Indiana Bat   4/10 (578 kb htm)*
     USFS News Release: FS Receives FWS Indiana Bat Biological Opinion (4/10/00)
     FS Requests Comments on Indiana Bat  N/P Forest  Plan Amendment (4/13) (32 kb pdf)

(* The above documents contain some formatting errors that cause page numbers to change 
and some tables to not appear correctly. )