Environmental Assessment Completed

Hughes Creek Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project

Salmon-Challis National Forest Lemhi, Idaho North Fork Ranger District

Treat approximately 3000 acres with mechanical thinning and prescribe underburn approximately 12000 acres to reduce hazardous natural fuels. Treatment area has been classified as wildland urban interface by Lemhi County.

Location

Hughes Creek drainage 6 miles north of North Fork, Idaho

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
05/10/2007
2
Objection Period Start
01/15/2009
3
Decision
03/2009 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
03/2009 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Stewardship Contract, Consolidated Appropriations Resolution Of 2003
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels)
DN/FONSI Hughes Creek Hazardous Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/05/2009
ForestsSalmon-Challis National Forest
DistrictsNorth Fork Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT25N, R20E, Sec. 1-3,10-14; T25N, R21E, Sec. 3-10, 16-21; T26N, R20E, Sec. 25, 26, 35, 36; T26N, R21E, Sec. 20, 21, 28-34, B.M.
Fuels management