Issues

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Public scoping identified several environmental problems (issues) that should be addressed in a cooperative bison management plan. Scoping also identified other objectives and alternatives the public wished agencies to consider in their planning. The resources that agencies believed would experience more than negligible impacts are listed below, and each is analyzed in the environmental impact statement:

• the Yellowstone area bison population size, distribution, and seroprevalence
• recreation
• socioeconomics, including the regional economy, minority and low-income populations, social values, and nonmarket values
• livestock operations in the region
• threatened and endangered species, such as the grizzly bear, and sensitive species or species of special concern
• other wildlife
• human safety
• cultural resources
• visual resources