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 Authority | Hfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Hfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics) |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Timber Sales (Salvage) |
| DN & FONSI Morrision Creek Fuels Reduction Project | Decision Signed Date: 01/25/2012 |
| Forests | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest |
| Districts | Yampa Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | T2N, R83W Sec. 6, 7, 17, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29 T2N, R84W Sec. 1, 2, 12 T3N, R84W Sec. 17, 20, 28, 34 |