Environmental Assessment Completed

Willow Basin Wildland-Urban Interface Fuels Treatment Project

Manti-La Sal National Forest Grand, Utah Moab Ranger District

Mechanical (ground-based fecon head machinery and chainsaw) thinning with prescribed burning within the Willow Basin Wildland-Urban Interface area adjacent to private lands. Gambel oak, PJ and ponderosa pine. 1000 acres of 1725 acre project area.

Location

NW corner of the Moab Ranger District adjacent to the north boundary of the Willow Basin private inholding

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
07/05/2007
2
Decision
10/2010 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
10/2010 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels)
DN & FONSI for the Willow Basin Wildland Urban Interface Fuels TreatmentDecision Signed Date: 10/03/2010
ForestsManti-Lasal National Forest
DistrictsMoab Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT25S, R24E and T25S, R25E, SLM
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels management