Salmon-Challis National Forest — Project Detail

Land exchange between the Forest Service and a private party

Conduct habitat and aquatic passage enhancement activities, including process-based restoration across six miles and habitat enhancement at three stream crossings

The Salmon-Challis National Forest is revising and updating the 1987 Challis and the 1988 Salmon Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan)

Salvage log up to 250 acres of burnt and/or insect and disease infested timber which is either dead or likely to die in the next 3 years.

Improve livestock distribution and protect riparian areas with the construction of an off-site water source and modification to existing fences.

Salvage harvesting of dead and imminently dead lodgepole pine. The proposed project would designate 250 acres for salvage and sanitation cutting with no new road construction and no more than 0.5 mile of temporary road.

Hand thinning of units, to improve big game habitat that has been reduced through the encroachment of conifers.

Construct about 0.6 miles of fence to create a riparian exclosure on Cruikshank Creek, tying into 700 yards of existing Forest Service and private land boundary fence to create an exclosure to protect the riparian area.

If approved, the project would authorize a request for new assigned campsite for Middle Fork Lodge in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness

If approved, the project would authorize a request for new assigned campsite for Middle Fork Creek Lodge in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness

If approved, the project would authorize a request for new assigned campsite for Pistol Creek Outfitters in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness

Prevent the build-up of insect and disease, reduce the large accumulation of dead and dying trees, provide a mix of forest products, and decrease the level of hazard trees along main arterial roads within the project area.

The purpose of the project is to reroute 0.10 miles of the Kelly Creek Trail, FS Trail #4323, to eliminate two ford crossings in ESA-listed fish habitat.

Conduct habitat improvement actions and address fish passage. Habitat modifications associated with process-based restoration actions will occur in the form of beaver dam analogs, large wood augmentation and post-assisted log structures.

The Forest proposes to remove live and dead trees on up to 70 acres on the Leadore Ranger District to provide post and pole products while reducing stocking levels in lodgepole pine stands.

Construction an exclosure to protect approximately 0.84 acres of riparian habitat using approximately 600 feet of jackleg fence.

The Salmon-Challis NF proposes to reroute 0.25 miles of NFS Road #40656 to eliminate 2 ford crossings in ESA-listed fish habitat. A new route will be constructed and bridge installed across Banner Creek.

Reduction of fuel loading and infection by removing the dead, dying and infected trees through commercial timber sales on 250 acres.

Modify and improve stream crossings and eliminate impacts from trails and roads on perennial stream that provide habitat for Chinook Salmon, steelhead, Bull Trout, and Westslope Cutthroat Trout.

Mechanical and hand treatments to reduce stocking levels, basal area, overstory tree spacing, and stand structure to increase stand resiliency to insects and disease.

Exploration drilling and trenching for locatable minerals in the Diamond Creek area over a 12 month period.

Exploration drilling for locatable minerals in the East Fork of Spring Creek drainage for a 12 month period.

The project proposes exploration drilling from roughly 92 drill pads over a 10 year period.

Issue a special use permit for a water diversion onto private property. Will include fencing springs and ditch management.

Reconstruction of existing trailhead to provide adequate parking and facilities to trail users.

Proposal to exploratory drill at 29 drill sites on National Forest System lands near UP & Burlington Patented inholding west of Salmon, Idaho on the Salmon-Challis National Forest.

Reroute a section of the Ramey Creek Road onto National Forest System Lands to facilitate access to the Ramey Creek Trail

Replace an above-ground 3500-foot pipeline by rerouting to a location that allows for burial of the pipeline. Will take place in two phases over five years.

The Forest Service proposes to reroute 600 feet of the Cabin Cash Road to restore road functionality, reduce further erosion, and improve recreational user experience.

This analysis identifies the visitor use capacity on National Forest System lands only, on the Nez Perce National Historic Trail to assist in the protection and management of trail resources.

Reroute Everson Creek Trail #6006, moving 1/4 mile of trail out of a groundwater-dependent meadow. Project includes subsequent meadow restoration.

Use prescribed fire and mechanical fuels reduction to improve timber stand health, vigor, and resiliency, as well as improve wildlife habitat.

Construction of new 80-foot self-supporting tower/structure and attached whip-style antenna, 20X50-foot building, and two 3,000 gallon propane tanks.

Further development of existing rock pit for use in road work and maintenance and other projects, e.g. stream restoration. Cape Horn Pit is also known as the Fir Pit.

Reroute trails away from streams; install three trail bridges on the North Fork of Big Creek to reduce sedimentation; reroute trails or place obstacles and barriers to discourage illegal motorized use; convert non-motorized trail to motorized trail

Construction of a 1.3 mile long trail that connects the Bellas Canyon Trail (Trail # 4060) with the Jarvis Trail (Trail # 4247)

Convey a 3.5-acre parcel of NFS land that is entirely within a block of private land to the owners under the Small Tracts Act

A variety of hazardous fuels reduction treatments over approximately 9,000 acres. Treatment types may include prescribed fire, hand thinning, and may also include commercial and non-commercial forest products.

Implement prescribed fire by both hand and aerial ignition over areas of the 6,210-acre project area

The purpose of the project is to install a bridge across Winnemucca Creek along FS Trail #4034. The bridge would reduce sediment delivery into the creek, which is critical habitat for ESA-threatened fish species.

Construct the Keystone Fence to provide a boundary between the FS and BLM allotments to prevent unauthorized livestock drift between permitted areas

Ounces High Exploration proposes to construct 29 drill sites and less than one mile of temporary road near Bob Moore drainage.

1,554-acre prescribed burn to improve forest stand health, riparian aspen expansion, wildlife habitat, and range forage

Manual and mechanical removal of trees to promote stand health and resiliency to insects and disease

Installation of a bridge on Moyer Creek for stream channel restoration. The existing crossing is degrading designated critical habitat for ESA-listed bull trout, Chinook salmon, and steelhead.

Replace existing power poles between North Fork and Newland Ranch

The Forest Proposes to remove live and dead tress on up to 70 acres on the Salmon-Cobalt RD to provide post and pole products while reducing stocking levels in lodgepole pine stand.

Exploration drilling operations on unpatented claims in the Copper Creek and Little Deep Creek area. The plan of operations proposes to to drill no more than 5 holes at 23 drilling locations with 1 mile of new temporary road access.

Whole tree collection (boles and rootwads) for placement in stream channels to improve habitat.

There are seven proposed drill sites. The number of drill holes at each site may vary with a maximum of three. Both vertical and angle holes may be drilled. Roughly 1.75 miles of existing road may be used temporarily.

Manual and mechanical treatments to improve stand health and increase resiliency to insects and disease.

Conduct process-based restoration in Panther and Fourth of July Creeks, including beaver-dam analogs, large wood augmentation, and post-assisted log structures

Natural regeneration and hand planting across 34,509 acres that experienced stand-replacing fire.

Construct a 1.25-mile pipeline on the Boone Creek Allotment consisting of a spring development (headbox) and approximately 1.25 miles of polyethylene pipe conveying water to five water troughs.

Upon approval of proposed operating plan, authorize Kennecott Exploration Drilling Company (the Operator) to conduct mineral exploration for locatable minerals on the Operator's claims in the project area.

Exploration drilling for locatable minerals on a series of Breccia Gold mining claims.

Design small commercial sales for the removal of live saw timber and fuelwood on up to 70 designated acres.

Natural regeneration and hand planting across 34,509 acres that experienced stand-replacing fire.

The Salmon-Challis National Forest (Salmon-Challis) proposes to issue a special use permit to Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) to maintain the Hoodoo Meadows Airstrip and by making other repairs to make the Airstrip functional.

Remove encroaching vegetation from an existing airstrip, restore the airstrip's runway surface and install other items needed to return the airstrip to a usable state. Other items include windsocks, and tie-down blocks.

Commercially harvest and thin up to 3,000 acres. The treatments would be designed to decrease timber stand susceptibility to insect population buildup and to decrease hazardous fuels accumulation.

The Forest Service proposes to install a fish barrier in Warm Creek in the Little Lost River Basin to prevent non-native brook trout from negatively impacting ESA-listed bull trout.

This project is to construct an approximately 0.25 mile fence to improve wildlife and fisheries habitat on Warm Creek.

Relocate a section of the Muldoon Canyon Road (FS Road # 40510) that is negatively impacting streams, floodplains, wetlands, and riparian areas

Restore ecosystem diversity through increasing forest resiliency to insect and disease agents. Using a combination of manual and mechanical treatments and prescribed fire designed to reduce stand densities.

Forest-wide prescription burning for fuels reduction and habitat restoration.

Construction of approximately 0.84 miles of barbed wire fence along Mill Creek. The fence will run alongside the 250 road for approximately one-half mile then contour to the nearest steep point to tie the fence off.

Extend fence to better manage cattle distribution

This project proposes to conduct hard rock, exploration drilling to determine mineral potential adjacent to Long Tom and Colson Creek of the North Fork Ranger District, on National Forest System (NFS) lands open to mineral entry.

Installation of three water troughs and a jack fence in the Willow Creek Unit of the Alder Creek Allotment to improve cattle distribution in this unit and reduce pressure in the Willow Creek riparian areas.

Implement adaptive and integrated invasive plant management on current and potential infested areas which would include inventory and assessment designed to support Early Detection Rapid Response, control methods, monitoring, and rehabilitation.

Construct two short drift fences, approximately 0.1 mile each in length, in the Upper Wagonhammer Unit and the Lower Silverleads Unit of the Burns Basin C&H Allotment.

Ethos Geological Inc. proposes drilling several holes averaging 150m depth (max 350m/1000ft) from 10 drill sites. These exploration holes will be drilled within one year of the proposed start date or an extension will be applied for if the Operators

High Banking with small portable sluice box or wash table. over burden will be buried or placed back as precious miners. hoe or backhoe to feed a 4x8 portable single axel trammel "wet" or 4x8 wash plant "wet". entry by jeep or ATV.

Authorize mineral exploration activities for locatable minerals

Remove a diversion structure in the Knapp Creek watershed. This diversion is no longer in use, and the diversion instream structure, diversion headgate, diversion ditch within the floodplain, and diversion fish screen will be removed.

Expansion of four existing rock source pits and development of five new rock sources (approximately 90 acres) across the forest to facilitate road maintenance needs.

The Operator proposes to disturb up to a total of 230 acres by constructing 24 miles of temporary roads, 300-400 drill sites, up to 4 drill holes per site and staging in phases spread across ten years.

Use commercial harvest, hand-thinning, and prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuels and increase resiliency to insect and disease infestation

Harvest of live trees not to exceed 70 acres, requiring no more than 1/2 mile of temporary road construction.

Approve a Plan of Operations to explore for locatable minerals, with added project design features and monitoring requirements to protect surface resources.

Authorize permittees to build 0.1-acre corral at permitted camp site.

This Plan of Operation includes: 1) trenching and 2) drilling and 3) road maintenance. Trenching: It is anticipated that 10 to 12 trenches may be excavated Drilling: Neuma proposes drilling a total of 10 to 15 diamond core holes

Sample underground workings from the Operator's claims.

Authorize a plan of operations for exploratory drilling for gold.

The Operator's Plan, as submitted, proposes to core drill from eight pads accessed using a Forest System roads and trails. This proposed action documented below is a summary of the submitted plan and includes Forest Service project design features.

Restore access to the Colson Creek Road by constructing a new segment of Forest System Road that would accommodate full-sized vehicles. New segment would replace temporary ATV trail currently in place.

Reroute of existing trail to move trail off of private land and onto National Forest System land.

Make available 69 acres of roadside products for permitting.

Implementation of prescribed fire by both hand and aerial techniques over some of the 71,203-acre project area.

Installation of a backup generator and propane tank at an existing communications site located Grouse Peak.

Proposed Actions include implementing prescribed fire by both hand and aerial over some of the 17,000 acre project area. Desired fire effects will be a patchy mosaic of burned vegetation including trees, shrubs and grasses across the landscape.

Allow public to harvest authorized forest products while reducing the stocking level of trees in the project area.

Construction of bathroom facility at recreation site

Pre-commercial thinning of a 144-acre in eight units comprising 144 acres of lodgepole pine.

Phase II of a multi-phased project to address limiting factors for fish habitat in a low-gradient meandering stretch of Panther Creek. Installation of in-stream structures to improve habitat and hydraulics and collection of trees for restoration work

Conduct a variety of vegetation enhancement treatments across the North Zone of Forest including whitebark and aspen restoration, fuels reduction, and prescribed fire.

Minimize adverse environmental impact to surface resources by regulating the functions, work, and activities connected with the operators plan to explore locatable minerals on National Forest System lands.

Approve a plan to drill up to two holes per pad on four drill pads, use less than 1 mile of temporary closed user-created routes and less than 0.5 miles of overland travel for drill pad access, and draft water from Agency Creek.

Assess plan to construct four drill pads for mineral exploration. Create design features to avoid or minimize adverse environmental impacts.

Decommissioning of up to 200 feet of unauthorized user-created access routes.

Exploration drilling of nine holes. Anticipated surface disturbance of less than 1 acre. Water drafting from Big Deer Creek

The Breccia Project proposes a gold drilling and exploration operation.

The Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District is proposing to construct an exclosure fence approximately 4.5 acres in size around Fourth Spring within Unit 1 of the Morgan Creek-Prairie Basin Allotment

The Forest proposes to sell one historic warehouse building and two out building sheds in Mackay, Idaho on a 0.48-acre fenced parcel with utilities.

Revival Gold LLC proposes to conduct mineral exploration drilling on 27 sites, accessing the sites with a helicopter and 6 miles of new, temporary road, and drafting water from Napias Creek.

Project proposes to construct three segments of fence totaling 0.9 miles and installing three cattleguards on Forest roads to better manage livestock in the North Fork of the Big Lost River on the Wildhorse C&H Allotment.

Installation of cattle guard and fence to improve livestock distribution on a grazing allotment.

A variety of hazardous fuels reduction treatments over approximately 9,000 acres. Treatment types may include prescribed fire, hand thinning, and pile burning and may also include non-commercial and non-commercial forest products.

Install small barrier in Wet Creek to prevent invasive brook trout from moving upstream into bull trout habitat.

Proposed permanent facilities include chinook salmon trapping, holding and acclimation facilities including weirs at Pole Flat Campground site on the Yankee Fork River and at the Cobalt Ranger Station on Panther Creek. In cooperation with BPA.

The project will expand the exclosure around a developed headbox at Soapstone Springs on the Grizzly Hill C&H Allotment, protecting the spring source.

Install a 10,000 gallon water holding tank along the Gilmore pipeline near the water trough. Tank would be buried adjacent to the road above the trough.

Precommercial thinning of lodgepole pine as part of continued rotational activities to keep the stand on track to reach culmination.

Use prescribed burn to restore historic timber stand structure characteristics to increase resiliency to disturbances such as insect infestations, disease, and fire.

Wetland and meadow retention, habitat improvement, and channel stabilization.

Extending an allotment fence by 500 feet to decrease grazing pressure.

Mechanical and non-mechanical treatments, prescribed fire, and other activities to increase resiliency to insect and disease infestation, reduce fuels, and reduce potential effects of high-severity fire.

The proposed action would restore Eightmile Creek to a more natural condition by placing large wood in the stream channel and eliminating impacts to the stream associated with an adjacent road.

The proposal is to authorize five (5) non-motorized recreation events on the Salmon-Challis National Forest. Each event would be authorized under individual special use permits for up to a five (5) year term.

Project would reduce conifers encroaching into sage steppe greater sage-grouse habitat. The project would authorize approx. 199,500 acres and treat roughly 3,000 acres per year. Trees would be hand felled, lopped, and/or piled for burning.

Improve public access to Carmen Creek drainage and better enforce vehicle restrictions on non-motorized portion of the Carmen Creek Trail.

Repairing the Bear Cr road by removing 1 mile of damaged road and constructing a new 1.1 mile section of road along the east side of Bear Creek

Proposed Actions include implementing prescribed fire by both hand and aerial ignition over portions of the 2,242 acre project area.

Issue permit to CenturyLink for extension of fiber optic line from North Fork to Gibbonsville, Idaho.

Idaho Power applied for a special use permit to install a prefabricated building to replace a recently decommissioned building at their Grizzly Hill administrative site.

Decommissioning of up to 100 feet on two unauthorized user created access routes that lead to closed and abandoned mine workings.

Project will implement various sivicultural managment techniques to reduce fuels, restore decadent aspen stands, provide commercial forest products, and address insect epidemic that is currently occurring in the drainage.

Reroute and construct approximately 4 miles of new trail designed primarily for hiking and horseback riding in the Anderson Mountain area, North Fork Ranger District, Salmon-Challis NF and Wisdom Ranger District, Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF

Develop Interagency (FS & BLM) Wilderness Management Plan for new wilderness area.

The project will increase forest stand resilience to insect, disease, and wildfire utilizing silvicultural practices such as mechanical thinning and prescribed fire.

Reroute 0.50 miles of Forest Trail 4137 Timber Creek Trail, due to poor trail design and to rehabilitate existing resource damage associated with the original trail location.

off-channel sluice operation... 1 trench, 24 days/year for up to 5 years...portable tanks for settling ponds... less than .5 acres of total disturbance... no road building

The Salmon Cobalt Ranger District (SCRD) is proposing to withdraw approximately 107.02 acres of National Forest Lands from mineral entry under the 1872 Mining Law.

The intent of the project is to improve timber stands, wildlife forage and habitat by utilizing hand thinning, hand piling and prescribed burning to restore stands closer to reference conditions

Salvage marketable forest products from trees killed over 1,452 acres as a result of the Halstead Fire and those trees that may succumb to expansion of Douglas-fir beetle triggered by the fire. Areas include Challis-Yankee and Middle Fork Districts.

Construct 0.25 miles of fence on the Wildhorse C&H grazing allotment, at the Kane Lake Trailhead in Kane Canyon, to protect fish and wildlife habitat.

The Lost River Ranger District (LRRD) is proposing to reclaim transportation routes by decommissioning twenty-one unauthorized routes and five closed system routes in the Alder Ck drainage, approximately 6 air miles south to southwest of Mackay, ID.

Prescribed broadcast burning and tree cutting proposal to reduce hazardous fuels in the WUI in and around the Mosquito Flat area

Doloughan Construction LLC proposes to placer up to 29 acres for gold in the Napias Creek area of the Salmon-Cobalt Ranger District on National Forest System (NFS) lands under open to mineral entry the 1872 Mining Law, as amended.

Install PIT array on Marsh Creek adjacent to Lola Creek Campground.

The project would maintain the functionality of the site by adding camping areas, toilets, parking, information kiosk, and other amenities.

To re-locate approx. 600 yards of Road #714 in the "Ballpark" area of the Lost River Ranger District. The re-location will bypass a wet area where resource damage is occurring. The proposal includes decommissioning the abandoned road route.

Treat approximately 3000 acres with mechanical thinning and prescribe underburn approximately 12000 acres to reduce hazardous natural fuels. Treatment area has been classified as wildland urban interface by Lemhi County.

Analyze and revise sections of the original 2009 FEIS to correct deficiencies identified by the District Court of Idaho in their Feb. 4, 2011, memorandum decision and order and determine if changes to motor vehicle route designations are warranted.

harvesting of post-fire dead and imminently dead Douglas-fir and other timber. Sanitation harvesting of Douglas-fir green sawtimber where the threat of mortality from Douglas-fir beetle is present.

Use thinning treatments and prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuel loading, restore forest resilience to insects and disease, reduce unauthorized usage that lowers water quality, and improve wildland firefighter safety.

Revival Gold proposes to conduct exploration drilling on 20 sites, construct less than 1 mile of new, temporary road, and draft water from Moose Creek.

Construct 2/3 mile of hiking/horseback riding trail to replace older segment of trail and maintain continuity with the recently rerouted trail on BLM land.

Drill on up to 53 drill sites. Total disturbance up to 15 acres. Operations are anticipated to start in summer 2018 with final reclamation by October 2020. Existing, undesignated mine roads and temporary roads would be used and decommissioned.