Environmental Assessment Completed

Hazard Tree Reduction - Medicine Bow-Routt NFs

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Albany; Carbon; Converse; Natrona; Platte; Jackson; Routt, Colorado; Wyoming Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All Units

Determine vegetation treatments that reduce the existing, potentially hazardous, dead and dying trees along National Forest System Roads, developed recreation sites, and administrative sites.

Location

Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
10/28/2007
2
Objection Period Start
06/08/2008
3
Decision
08/2008 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
09/2008 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.12 (3), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(3); 32.12 (4), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(4); 32.12 (5), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(5)
Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics)
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityDeveloped Site Management; Trail Management
Forest-wide Hazardous Tree Removal and Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 08/12/2008
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest All Units
Fuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)Facility management