Administrative Change #11

The Wayne National Forest has issued Administrative Change #11 for the 2006 Land and Resource Management Plan.

Administrative changes are any changes to a national forest’s land and resource management plan (commonly referred to as the “forest plan”) that are not plan amendments. Such changes include corrections of clerical errors, changes to ensure conformance with new statutory or regulatory requirements, and changes to other, non-component content in the forest plan.

Administrative Change #11 consists of the following changes:

  • The digital file has been reformatted to be accessible and compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
  • The common name of a non-native pest has been updated.
  • Running buffalo clover components have been moved to reflect the recent de-listing of the species following successful recovery.

Accessibility Improvements

In a recent review, the previous digital PDF version of the forest plan was found to be non-compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended ("Section 508 compliance"). This section states that content created by Federal agencies should be accessible to people with disabilities. The review found that almost every page needed editing to create a formatting structure that was compatible with current assistive technology. The forest plan was reformatted to meet accessibility standards, as well as to be generally easier to read and navigate. A full list of formatting changes made can be found in Attachment 1 of the Administrative Change #11 Letter.

Spongy Moth

Recently, the Entomological Society of America changed the common name of Lymantria dispar, which is a non-native invasive moth species that attacks native trees. The previous common name, which used a slur, was found in Chapter 2, Section 7 (Forest Health); Chapter 4, the Monitoring Plan; and Appendices A, E, I, and J. The forest plan has been updated to remove the offensive common name and replace it with the new common name "spongy moth."

Running Buffalo Clover Delisting

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service de-listed running buffalo clover (Fed. Reg. Vol. 86, No. 149, August 6, 2021), which was previously federally threatened. In order to reflect the change in federal status of the species, we moved the existing forest plan direction for running buffalo clover within the same section of Chapter 2 (Section 5 - Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive Species). Previously, running buffalo clover content was nested under Goal 5.1 and made up standards and guidelines 27-31 in this section. This content will now be nested under Goal 5.2 and will make up standards and guidelines 43-47. In addition, the running buffalo clover content in Appendix D (Federally Listed Species/Regional Forester Sensitive Species) has likewise been moved from the Federal section to the Regional Forester Sensitive Species section. The content has not changed, it has simply been shifted to Regional Forester Sensitive Species subsections. This change is in alignment with what was previously done after the de-listing of the bald eagle.

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