Decision Memo Completed

Thunderbug Thinning

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Uinta, Wyoming Evanston-Mountain View RD

Remove pine beetle infested lodgepole pine and sanitation thin adjacent green trees that are susceptible to beetle infestation. Decision withdrawn in summer of 2007. A new decision will be issued in 2008.

Location

Lower Gilbert Creek approximately 20 miles south of Mountain View, Wyoming.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
02/16/2006
2
Comment Period
07/28/2006
3
Decision
04/2008 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
06/2008 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (14), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(14)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityTimber Sales (Salvage)
Thunderbug Thinning ProjectDecision Signed Date: 04/11/2008 Legal Notice Date: 04/15/2008
ForestsUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
DistrictsEvanston-Mountain View RD
Legal Land DescriptionSections 5, 6, 7, and 8 T12N, R115W and Section 12, T12N, R116W, 6th P.M.
Forest products