Environmental Assessment Completed

Open Lands Management on the Cumberland District of the Daniel Boone National Forest

Daniel Boone National Forest Bath; Estill; Lee; Menifee; Morgan; Powell; Rowan; Wolfe, Kentucky Cumberland Ranger District

The purpose of this project is to outline an adaptive management strategy related to the management of early successional habitat, such as grasslands, shrub-lands/shrub thickets, young forest, wildlife openings, cane breaks, seeps,and wetlands.

Location

Open lands across the Cumberland Ranger District to include less than 5% of the total District acreage.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
01/26/2018
2
Comment Period
09/26/2018
3
Objection Period Start
02/06/2019
4
Decision
08/2019 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
09/2019 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Noxious Weed Treatments; Species Population Enhancements
Open Lands Management on the Cumberland District of the Daniel Boone National ForestDecision Signed Date: 08/15/2019
ForestsDaniel Boone National Forest
DistrictsCumberland Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsVegetation management (other than forest products)