Environmental Assessment Completed

Buttes Forest Management Project

Black Hills National Forest Crook, Wyoming Bearlodge Ranger District

Treatment of forest infested with mountain pine beetle, at risk of infestation, or with high fire hazard.

Location

Black Buttes, south of Sundance, Wyoming

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
03/08/2012
2
Objection Period Start
01/19/2013
3
Decision
03/2013 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
06/2013 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Hfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics)
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityRoad Decommissioning; Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements; Noxious Weed Treatments; Road Maintenance; Timber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Buttes Forest Health ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/22/2013
ForestsBlack Hills National Forest
DistrictsBearlodge Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionTownship 50 North, Range 61-62 West, 6th PM
Fuels managementForest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)