Environmental Assessment Completed

Rock Creek Fuels & Vegetation Project

Sawtooth National Forest Cassia; Twin Falls, Idaho Minidoka Ranger District

Treat vegetation using prescribed fire and mechanical treatments in order to reduce fuel loads and to create a more desirable fire regime.

Location

Treatments will be within the Cassia Division in three watersheds - Rock Creek MA, Trapper Creek MA, and Shoshone Creek MA.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
11/20/2014
2
Objection Period Start
01/07/2016
3
Decision
02/2016 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
02/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements
Rock Creek Fuels & Vegetation ProjectDecision Signed Date: 02/16/2016
ForestsSawtooth National Forest
DistrictsMinidoka Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Fuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)