Environmental Assessment Completed

Gap-based Approach to Oak Regeneration (Femelschlag) Project

National Forests in North Carolina Buncombe, North Carolina Pisgah Ranger District

The proposed action is to implement a new silvicultural system and continue testing an existing silvicultural system that are both based on natural disturbance patterns for their potential to regenerate oak and hickory species.

Location

Bent Creek Experimental Forest and the Beaverdam area.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
12/19/2012
2
Comment Period
12/30/2013
3
Decision
03/2014 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
05/2014 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements; Noxious Weed Treatments; Timber Sales (Green)
Gap-based Approach to Oak Regeneration (Femelschlag)ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/18/2014
ForestsNational Forests In North Carolina
DistrictsPisgah Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Vegetation management (other than forest products)