Environmental Impact Statement Completed

Greater Sage-grouse Conservation Measures - Thunder Basin NG Plan Amendment

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Campbell; Converse; Crook; Niobrara; Weston, Wyoming Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District

The purpose of this project is to prepare an environmental impact statement to incorporate greater sage-grouse conservation measures into Bureau of Land Management Land Use Plans and Forest and Grassland Plans.

Location

Thunder Basin National Grassland

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
12/09/2011
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
12/24/2013
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
05/29/2015
4
Decision
09/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
09/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNepa Document Prepared By Another Federal Agency
Notice and Comment Regulation219 (1982)
Project ActivityPlan Amendment
Greater Sage-grouse Record of Decision for Northwest Colorado and WyomingDecision Signed Date: 09/16/2015
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsLand management planning