Environmental Assessment Completed

Morrison Creek Fuels Reduction

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Routt, Colorado Yampa Ranger District

A combination of mechanical fuel reduction treatments (salvage, full tree mastication, hand cutting and piling) along the wildland urban interface within the Morrison Creek drainage.

Location

Project located 15 miles south of Steamboat Springs, CO in the Morrison Creek drainage

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/30/2010
2
Objection Period Start
12/18/2011
3
Decision
01/2012 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
06/2012 (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 ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Timber Sales (Salvage)
DN & FONSI Morrision Creek Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 01/25/2012
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsYampa Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT2N, R83W Sec. 6, 7, 17, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29 T2N, R84W Sec. 1, 2, 12 T3N, R84W Sec. 17, 20, 28, 34
Fuels management