Environmental Impact Statement Cancelled

Thunder Basin National Grassland Prairie Dog Amendment

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

The Forest Service proposes to amend the 2001 Grassland Plan to modify Categories 1 and 2 of the 2009 Prairie Dog Management Strategy based on continuing management concerns raised by the State of Wyoming.

Location

Select areas of prairie dog habitat within the TBNG centered around Management Area 3.63. East of state highway 59 and south of state highway 450.

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
09/13/2013
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
08/2015 (Estimated)
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
09/2015 (Estimated)
4
Objection Period Start
10/2015 (Estimated)
5
Decision
11/2015 (Estimated)
6
Implementation
12/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityPlan Amendment
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Land management planning