Decision Memo Completed

Taylor Draw Vegetation Management Project

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Jackson, Colorado Parks Ranger District

The main goals of the project include creating healthy forest structure resilient to insects and disease, increase public safety, reduce fuel loading and wildland fire events around WUI, and recover economic value of degrading lodgepole pine.

Location

Township(T) 5N, Range(R) 77W, Sections 2-6; T5N, R78W, Section 1; T6N, R77W, Sections 19, 27-31, 34-35; T6N, R78W, Sections 25 and 36; 6th Principal Meridian; Jackson County, Colorado. Owl Mountain Geographic Area near Rand Colorado.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
12/08/2022
2
Decision
05/2023 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
10/2023 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.3 (5)
Special AuthorityHfra Title Vi: Insect And Disease Projects
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Salvage)
Taylor Draw Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 05/11/2023
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsParks Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Forest productsFuels management