Environmental Assessment Completed

Mosquito Flat Fuels Reduction Project

Salmon-Challis National Forest Custer, Idaho Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District

Prescribed broadcast burning and tree cutting proposal to reduce hazardous fuels in the WUI in and around the Mosquito Flat area

Location

Areas to the immediate south, west, and north of the Mosquito Flat area. Generally, the headwater drainage of the Challis creek watershed, approximately 8 air miles west of Challis, ID.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/27/2012
2
Objection Period Start
12/22/2016
3
Decision
02/2017 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
05/2017 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Timber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green)
Mosquito Flat Fuels Reduction Project Decision Notice/FONSIDecision Signed Date: 02/01/2017
ForestsSalmon-Challis National Forest
DistrictsChallis-Yankee Fork Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT14N, R17E, S33
Fuels management