Environmental Assessment Completed

Tygart Chestnut Ridge

Monongahela National Forest Randolph, West Virginia Greenbrier Ranger District

Enhance wildlife habitat over approximately 600 acres by enhancing existing and creating new linear wildlife openings, restoring running buffalo clover, creating permanent and vernal wetlands and habitat for bats, and liming, using timber as a tool.

Location

On the Greenbrier Ranger District

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
07/22/2015
2
Comment Period
04/28/2016
3
Objection Period Start
06/30/2016
4
Decision
08/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
10/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityStewardship Contract, Consolidated Appropriations Resolution Of 2003
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Tygart/Chestnut Ridge Wildlife and Watershed Project DN/FONSIDecision Signed Date: 08/15/2016
ForestsMonongahela National Forest
DistrictsGreenbrier Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsForest products