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 Authority | Hfra 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 Regulation | 218 (2013) HFRA |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Special Products Sales; Timber Sales (Salvage) |
| Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project Record of Decisio | Decision Signed Date: 08/13/2020 |
| Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project | Decision Signed Date: 08/13/2020 |
| Forests | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest |
| Districts | Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District; Laramie Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |