Environmental Assessment Completed

Sparta Vegetation Management Project

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Baker, Oregon Whitman Ranger District

Goal is to create sustainable, diverse, and resilient forest vegetation using commercial timber harvest, non-commercial thinning, fuels reduction, aspen restoration, prescribed burning and underburning.

Location

Located within the Powder sub-basin, south of Forest road 7700, in the Eagle Creek area.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
03/14/2016
2
Comment Period
01/23/2017
3
Objection Period Start
04/21/2017
4
Decision
08/2017 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
03/2018 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Timber Sales (Green)
Sparta Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 08/22/2017
ForestsWallowa-Whitman National Forest
DistrictsWhitman Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT7&8S, R43-45E
Forest productsFuels management