Environmental Impact Statement Completed

Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Albany; Carbon, Wyoming Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All Units

Holistically review the Snowy Range and Sierra Madre mountain ranges to identify strategies to best mitigate the negative effects of the current beetle epidemic to the various resources found within each mountain ranges.

Location

This website houses all NEPA related documents. Please visit the LaVA Implementation Website for project implementation information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/mbr/landmanagement/?cid=FSEPRD572816

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
07/21/2017
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
07/13/2018
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
04/10/2020
4
Objection Period Start
04/10/2020
5
Decision
08/2020 (Estimated)
6
Implementation
09/2020 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Hfra Title I: Municipal Watersheds; Hfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics); Hfra Title I: Threatened And Endangered Species Habitat
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Special Products Sales; Timber Sales (Salvage)
Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project Record of DecisioDecision Signed Date: 08/13/2020
Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) ProjectDecision Signed Date: 08/13/2020
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsBrush Creek/Hayden Ranger District; Laramie Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels managementLand management planningForest products