Environmental Assessment Completed

Limber Jim Muir Fuels Reduction Project

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Union, Oregon La Grande Ranger District

Noncommercial fuel reduction,west boundary LaGrande City Watershed and key access routes to reduce down fuel and facilitate fire suppression. May include precommercial thinning, firewood areas, slash busting, prescribed fire, small commercial harvest

Location

15 miles southwest of La Grande, west of the La Grande Municipal Watershed, between Muir Creek and Limber Jim Creek.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
01/17/2013
2
Comment Period
02/13/2015
3
Objection Period Start
04/20/2015
4
Decision
02/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
06/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements
Limber Jim Muir Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 02/18/2016
ForestsWallowa-Whitman National Forest
DistrictsLa Grande Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT5S and T6S, R36E
Fuels management