Environmental Assessment Completed

Pine Ridge Landscape Restoration Project

Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands Dawes, Nebraska Pine Ridge Ranger District

The project is largely aimed at improving undesired conditions created by the 2006 Spotted Tail Fire and the 2012 West Ash Fire and reducing the threat of stand-replacing wildfires in those few areas not impacted by those large wildfires.

Location

National Forest System Lands in Dawes County between Crawford and Chadron Nebraska.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/02/2014
2
Comment Period
06/07/2014
3
Objection Period Start
12/01/2014
4
Decision
01/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
03/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Rangeland Vegetation Improvements
Pine Ridge Landscape RestorationDecision Signed Date: 01/12/2015
ForestsNebraska National Forest
DistrictsPine Ridge Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Fuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)