Environmental Assessment Completed

Wildcat Restoration and Vegetation Management Project

Ozark-St. Francis National Forest Benton; Washington, Arkansas Boston Mountain Ranger District

Thinning, regeneration, and planting in overstocked stands using vegetation management tools such as pre-commercial thins, wildlife stand improvements, prescribed fire, and herbicide.

Location

Wedington Unit in the northeast corner in Benton and Washington Counties.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
04/29/2019
2
Comment Period
08/01/2019
3
Decision
09/2019 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
01/2020 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other; Hfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Hfra Title I: Threats To Ecosystem Components (Such As Insect Or Disease Epidemics)
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Heritage Resource Management; Noxious Weed Treatments; Rangeland Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Wildcat Restoration and Vegetation Management ProjectDecision Signed Date: 09/25/2019
ForestsOzark-St. Francis National Forests
DistrictsBoston Mountain Ranger District
Legal Land Descriptionsections 1 and 12 in T 17N R 32W; sections 6,7,8,17, and 18 in T 17N R 31W
Heritage resource managementWildlife, fish, rare plantsGrazing managementForest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels managementWatershed management