Environmental Assessment Completed

Little Beaver Creek Hazardous Fuels Reduction

Kootenai National Forest Sanders, Montana Cabinet Ranger District

Fuel reduction/management in the Little Beaver drainage. Proposal includes commercial thinning on 780 acres, regeneration harvest on 398 acres, prescribed burning only on 691 acres, and 5.5 miles of new permanent roads, 2 miles of temp roads.

Location

Little Beaver Creek drainage, south of the Clark Fork River, south end of the Cabinet District

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
08/28/2008
2
Objection Period Start
02/24/2011
3
Decision
08/2009 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
09/2009 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels)
Little Beaver Hazardous Fuels ReductionDecision Signed Date: 08/11/2009
ForestsKootenai National Forest
DistrictsCabinet Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionS31; T23N; R30 W; PMM, S6,7,17,18,20; T22N; R30W; PMM, S13; T22N; R31W; PMM.
Fuels management