Environmental Assessment Completed

Sawmill Canyon Vegetation Management Project

Salmon-Challis National Forest Custer; Lemhi, Idaho Lost River Ranger District

Project will implement various sivicultural managment techniques to reduce fuels, restore decadent aspen stands, provide commercial forest products, and address insect epidemic that is currently occurring in the drainage.

Location

Project Area is located in Sawmill Canyon the headwaters of the Little Lost River drainage, 35 miles NNE of Mackay, Idaho

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
12/29/2011
2
Objection Period Start
02/11/2016
3
Decision
03/2017 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
06/2017 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics)
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Road Maintenance; Timber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Sawmill Canyon Vegetation Management Project Decision Notice/FONSIDecision Signed Date: 03/20/2017
ForestsSalmon-Challis National Forest
DistrictsLost River Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT12N, R25E, S.1,2; T12N, R26E,S. 5-8; T13N, R25E, S. 25,36; T13N, R26E, S. 30, 31, Boise Meridian
Fuels managementForest products