Decision Memo Completed

Burnt-Beaver Restoration

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Summit, Utah Evanston-Mountain View RD

Landscape scale (70,772 acres) proposal for reducing hazardous fuel loads and regenerating aspen in conifer-encroached stands through prescribed burn, lop and scatter, and cut and pile.

Location

Burnt Fork and Beaver Creek watersheds of the Evanston-Mountain View Ranger District. The project area is approximately 7 miles south of Lone Tree, Wyoming.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
08/10/2018
2
Decision
03/2019 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
06/2019 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements; Species Population Enhancements
Burnt-Beaver RestorationDecision Signed Date: 03/28/2019
ForestsUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
DistrictsEvanston-Mountain View RD
Legal Land DescriptionT1N, R16 and 17E, (multi sections); T2N, R15, 16,and 17E, (multi sections); and T3 1/2 N, R16 and 17E, (multi sections)
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Wildlife, fish, rare plantsFuels management