Decision Memo Completed

Bonsai Tree Collection

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

The Forest Service is proposing to issue a commercial permit to Backcountry Bonsai to harvest live trees including common juniper, limber pine, ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, spruce, and possibly mountain maple.

Location

Medicine Bow National Forest, Laramie Peak Unit, generally within the Horseshoe Creek watershed in the vicinities of Castle Rock and Rock Mountain and Harris Park Road.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/02/2014
2
Decision
05/2015 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
05/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (12), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(12)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations
Decision Memo Backcountry Bonsai Commercial Forest Products PermitDecision Signed Date: 05/29/2015
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT28N R71W
Forest products