Environmental Impact Statement Completed

2020 Thunder Basin National Grassland Plan Amendment

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

The Grassland proposes to amend prairie dog management direction in the Land and Resource Management Plan, including changes to management area boundaries and changes to grassland-wide, geographic area, and management area plan components.

Location

This plan amendment will focus on prairie dog management and could change management across the Thunder Basin National Grassland.

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
04/18/2019
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
04/18/2019
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
05/15/2020
4
Objection Period Start
05/15/2020
5
Decision
11/2020 (Estimated)
6
Implementation
01/2021 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation219 (2012)
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Plan Amendment; Rangeland Vegetation Improvements
Thunder Basin National Grassland 2020 Plan AmendmentDecision Signed Date: 11/06/2020 (In Appeal Period) Legal Notice Date: 12/02/2020
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Land management planningWildlife, fish, rare plantsVegetation management (other than forest products)Watershed management