Environmental Assessment Completed

Cantonment Vegetation Management Project

Rio Grande National Forest Saguache, Colorado Saguache Ranger District

The Rio Grande National Forest proposes to initiate multiple treatments within the Cantonment Creek and Luders Creek Drainages,including prescribed fire, salvage, precommercial thin, intermediate harvest and regeneration harvest.

Location

The analysis area is located approximately twenty-five miles west of the town of Saguache, Colorado.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
02/11/2022
2
Comment Period
02/11/2022
3
Objection Period Start
02/24/2023
4
Decision
07/2023 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
07/2023 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green)
Cantonment Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/11/2023
ForestsRio Grande National Forest
DistrictsSaguache Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNew Mexico Principal Meridian, T.45N., R.4E., sec. 6-8, 16-23, 27-30 and 34; T.45N., R.3E., sec. 1, 11-15, 23-28, and 33-36; T.44N., R.3E., sec. 1-3; T.44N., R.4E., sec. 6
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Forest products