USFS proposal to restore stand health, reduce wildfire severity, and promote understory regeneration in sage-steppe, mtn shrub communities . Prescribed fire and mechanical treatments would be applied within approximately 65,000 acre project boundary
Location
Forest Service lands that are south of Whiterock and Seep springs at the north end of the Monitor range. Unit boundaries to the north, east and west will end at the forest service boundaries
Project timeline
1
Scoping Start
05/23/2012
2
Comment Period
05/23/2012
3
Objection Period Start
10/2016 (Estimated)
4
Decision
11/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
01/2017 (Estimated)
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements |
| Forests | Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest |
| Districts | Austin Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | T16N thru T18N R47-50 all or portions of the sections within |