Utilize prescribed fire along with minor amounts of slashing, hand piling, and machine piling to treat fuels in the urban interface. The area experienced fire on a 10-25 year interval historically. Treatments are designed to mimic this pattern.
Location
Tobacco Plains, north of Eureka MT, approx 2200 acres
Project timeline
1
Scoping Start
05/28/2009
2
Comment Period
12/22/2011
3
Decision
02/2012 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
02/2012 (Estimated)
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 215 |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Dispersed Recreation Mgmt.; Species Habitat Improvements |
| Gateway Maintenance Burning | Decision Signed Date: 02/07/2012 |
| Forests | Kootenai National Forest |
| Districts | Rexford Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | all or parts of T37N, R27W |