Environmental Assessment Completed

Steamboat Front

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Routt, Colorado Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District

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 AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels)
Steamboat Front Hazardous Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 10/01/2015
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT6N, R84W, Sections 2,11,14,23,26,& 35; T5N, R84W, Sections 2, 11, 14, 23, & 26.
Fuels management