Fuels treatments & habitat improvements. Mastication, prescribed burning of shrubs and aspen, treatment/ removal of beetle-killed pine. Project is near Steamboat Springs (WUI). A seasonal closure for big game winter range would also be implemented.
Location
Steamboat Springs city limits and surrounding valley
Project timeline
1
Scoping Start
01/27/2014
2
Comment Period
01/27/2014
3
Objection Period Start
06/07/2015
4
Decision
10/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
06/2016 (Estimated)
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels) |
| Steamboat Front Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project | Decision Signed Date: 10/01/2015 |
| Forests | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest |
| Districts | Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | T6N, R84W, Sections 2,11,14,23,26,& 35; T5N, R84W, Sections 2, 11, 14, 23, & 26. |