Environmental Assessment Completed

Meadow Creek Fuels Reduction Project

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Madison, Montana Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All Units

Commercial thinning of Douglas-fir and salvage lodgepole pine on 300 acres of National Forest System lands.

Location

South Meadow Creek watershed on the east slope of the Tobacco Root Mtns., about 6 miles north of Ennis, MT.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
01/10/2011
2
Comment Period
06/23/2011
3
Decision
11/2011 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
01/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityTimber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green)
Meadow Creek Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 11/17/2011 Legal Notice Date: 11/17/2011
ForestsBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
DistrictsMadison Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT.4S, R.2W., Sections 21,28, and 29.
Fuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)Forest products