Decision Memo Completed

Southeast Snowy Range Crucial Deer and Elk Winter Range Seasonal Closures

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Albany, Wyoming Laramie Ranger District

This project proposes to add seasonal closures to about 8.6 miles of roads and to extend seasonal road closure dates from 11/15-4/31 to 10/1-6/15 in Crucial Deer and Elk Winter Range in the Southeast Snowy Range Mountains.

Location

Crucial Deer and Elk Winter Range Management Area in the southeast Snowy Range from near Lake Owen south to the Colorado border.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/01/2015
2
Comment Period
03/01/2016
3
Decision
04/2016 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
07/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Travel Management
Southeast Snowy Range Crucial Deer and Elk Winter Range Seasonal ClosuresDecision Signed Date: 04/27/2016
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsLaramie Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsRoad management