Environmental Assessment Completed

Selway Saginaw Vegetation Management Project

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Beaverhead, Montana Dillon Ranger District

Project to move conditions toward Forest Plan Timber, Vegetation, and Fuel Management Goals and Objectives using commercial timber harvest, precommercial thinning, and conifer expansion treatments.

Location

The Lima Tendoy Landscape primarily in the Selway-Saginaw and Horse Prairie North management areas (MAs). A smaller portion is planned in the Big Hole Landscape, West Big Hole Flats MA.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
09/09/2020
2
Comment Period
06/23/2023
3
Objection Period Start
06/23/2023
4
Decision
05/2024 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
10/2024 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityIra - Inventoried Roadless Area Activities Requiring Chief's Approval
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements; Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Selway Saginaw Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 05/14/2024
ForestsBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
DistrictsDillon Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionTownship 7 & 8 South, Range 14, 15 & 16 West
Forest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)