Decision Memo Completed

Armstrong Creek Wet Meadow Restoration

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

Installation of hand-built rock structures in approximately 1.5 miles of ephemeral and intermittent drainages to restore degraded wet meadows in sagebrush rangelands occurring within mapped general Greater sage-grouse habitat.

Location

California Park, approximately 18 miles north of Hayden Colorado. Legal description Township 9N, Range 87W, Sections 11, 14, and 15

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
09/17/2021
2
Decision
07/2022 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
07/2022 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Watershed Improvements
Armstrong Creek Wet Meadow RestorationDecision Signed Date: 07/23/2022
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsWatershed management