Environmental Impact Statement Completed

HMNF Land and Resource Management Plan Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Huron-Manistee National Forests Alcona; Crawford; Iosco; Lake; Manistee; Mason; Mecosta; Muskegon; Newaygo; Oceana; Ogemaw; Oscoda; Wexford, Michigan Huron-Manistee National Forest All Units

To remedie defeciencies identified by the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit - evaluate an alternaitve to the 2006 Forest Plan that would ban firearm hunting and snowmobile use in SPNM areas and Wilderness, subject to exisiting rights.

Location

Semiprimitive Nonmotorized management areas and Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
12/28/2010
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
09/23/2011
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
03/23/2012
4
Decision
01/2012 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
04/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation219 (1982)
Project ActivityPlan Amendment
ROD for Final Supplemental EIS for Amendment 1 to 2006 LRMPDecision Signed Date: 01/27/2012 Legal Notice Date: 04/12/2012
ForestsHuron-Manistee National Forest
DistrictsHuron-Manistee National Forest All Units
Land management planning