Environmental Assessment Completed

Upper Ninemile Placer Mine Reclamation

Lolo National Forest Missoula, Montana Ninemile Ranger District

Reclamation of abandoned placer mines including restoration of stream channels and fish habitat along Upper Ninemile, Sawpit, Martina, and Twin Creeks.

Location

Various stream segments within the Ninemile Creek Drainage, Ninemile Ranger District, Lolo National Forest.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/28/2010
2
Comment Period
04/10/2012
3
Decision
06/2012 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
09/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Abandoned Mine Land Clean-Up; Watershed Improvements
Upper Ninemile Placer Mine Reclamation ProjectDecision Signed Date: 06/18/2012 Legal Notice Date: 06/19/2012
ForestsLolo National Forest
DistrictsNinemile Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionSections 21, 22, 25-27, and 36, T17N, R24W
Watershed managementMinerals and geologyWildlife, fish, rare plants