Environmental Assessment Completed

Bird Track Springs Fish Enhancement Project

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

To enhance fish habitat for salmonids by creating active and available floodplain, relocating channel, enhancing side channels and existing channel, enhancing floodplain roughness, enhancing riparian and upland vegetation and wetlands.

Location

Project is located along a portion of the Grande Ronde River, along Hwy. 244, on national forest land and private lands, in the vicinity of Bird Track Springs.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
04/01/2015
2
Comment Period
09/15/2017
3
Objection Period Start
10/27/2017
4
Decision
06/2018 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
07/2018 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements
Bird Track Springs Fish Enhancement ProjectDecision Signed Date: 06/13/2018
ForestsWallowa-Whitman National Forest
DistrictsLa Grande Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT3S, R36E, Sections 11, 12, 14, 15, 16
Wildlife, fish, rare plants