Environmental Assessment Completed

Helwick Timber Sale

Kootenai National Forest Sanders, Montana Cabinet Ranger District

Includes 23 timber harvest units with treatments including commercial timber harvest on approximately 655 acres, which includes regeneration harvests (345 acres), and intermediate treatments (310 acres). Two harvest units would exceed 40 acres.

Location

Beaver Creek drainage

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
12/23/2014
2
Comment Period
12/24/2014
3
Objection Period Start
03/02/2016
4
Decision
05/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
06/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title Vi: Insect And Disease Projects
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Road Maintenance; Road Improvements/Construction; Timber Sales (Green)
Helwick Timber SaleDecision Signed Date: 05/23/2016
ForestsKootenai National Forest
DistrictsCabinet Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionS1- 12,15-21, 29, 30 ; T22N; R31W; S33,36; T23N; R31W; S24, 25; T22N; R32W; S6; T22N; R30W; PMM, Sanders County, Montana
Recreation managementRoad managementForest productsFuels management