Environmental Assessment Completed

Rio Tusas-Lower San Antonio Landscape Restoration Project

Carson National Forest Rio Arriba, New Mexico Tres Piedras Ranger District

The objective is to conserve and restore the Rio Tusas-Lower San Antonio landscape in order to increase forest ecosystem sustainability and resiliency to natural disturbances such as drought and climatic variability, insects, disease, fire and wind

Location

The project is located on the Tres Piedras Ranger District of the Carson National Forest (CNF) and surrounds the community of Tres Piedras in northern New Mexico.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
10/22/2015
2
Comment Period
02/09/2017
3
Objection Period Start
06/15/2017
4
Decision
10/2017 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
03/2018 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements
Rio Tusas-Lower San Antonio Landscape Restoration ProjectDecision Signed Date: 10/20/2017
ForestsCarson National Forest
DistrictsTres Piedras Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Vegetation management (other than forest products)