Decision Memo Completed

Argentine Vegetation Management Project

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

Various vegetation management treatments would be used within a total project treatment area of approximately, but not exceeding, 250 acres of lodgepole pine and mixed conifer stands which have experienced high levels of mortality.

Location

Project area is located on the Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District on the HPBE district in Routt County, CO, approximately 27 miles northwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
01/20/2022
2
Decision
03/2022 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
07/2022 (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 ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Salvage)
Argentine Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/22/2022
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Forest products