Environmental Assessment Completed

DNRC land exchange

Kootenai National Forest Granite; Lincoln; Mineral; Missoula; Powell; Sanders, Montana Lolo National Forest All Units

Lolo NF - Montana State DNRC land exchange State wants to trade isolated, scattered school trust lands surrounded by NFS lands; FS would consolidate ownership, acquire access, riparian, roadless & recreation lands & big game winter range.

Location

Western Montana -- all districts on Lolo NF, but mostly Superior RD, and one small parcel on Libby RD of Kootenai NF

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
04/28/2004
2
Comment Period
10/25/2006
3
Decision
05/2010 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
09/2010 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityLand Exchanges
DNRC-Lolo Land ExchangeDecision Signed Date: 05/27/2010 Legal Notice Date: 06/01/2010
ForestsKootenai National Forest; Lolo National Forest
DistrictsLibby Ranger District; Lolo National Forest All Units
Legal Land DescriptionToo large an area for legal to be meaningful; 13,336 acres of FS lands in 39 parcels, mostly in Mineral county to exhange for 12,126 acres in 37 parcels MT lands, mostly in Mineral & Missoula counties
Land ownership management