Decision Memo Completed

Cottonwood Rim Water Developments

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Carbon, Wyoming Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District

Construct four new stock ponds, two new drilled wells, and one new spring development in the Cottonwood Draw and West Sheep Mountain Allotments.

Location

West side of the Sierra Madres

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/11/2021
2
Decision
07/2021 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
08/2021 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (3), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(3)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivityGrazing Structural Improvements
Cottonwood Rim Water DevelopmentsDecision Signed Date: 07/12/2021
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsBrush Creek/Hayden Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT12N, R87W, Secs 2, 3, 13; T13N, R87W, Secs 33, 34
Grazing management