Decision Memo Completed

Whiskey Creek Vegetation Management Project

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Routt, Colorado Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District

Removal of downed or standing dead spruce and fir trees affected by a severe wind event which occurred on September 8, 2020.

Location

Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grassland in Routt County, Colorado, approximately 35 miles northwest of Steamboat Spring.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
05/31/2021
2
Decision
07/2021 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
07/2021 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (13), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(13)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivityRoad Decommissioning; Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Noxious Weed Treatments; Road Maintenance; Road Improvements/Construction; Timber Sales (Salvage)
Whiskey Creek Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/08/2021
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Forest products