Environmental Assessment Completed

Baranof Island Brewing Company Special Forest Products Permit for the Harvest of Spruce Tips

Tongass National Forest Sitka, Alaska Sitka Ranger District

The Sitka Ranger District is proposing to authorize the commercial harvest of 2,000 pounds of spruce tips, with with potential increases after annual review, on US Forest Service lands by the Baranof Island Brewing Co

Location

Harvest of spruce tips would be permitted in all available areas of the Sitka Ranger District except for Kruzof Island and other administratively closed areas.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
01/06/2015
2
Comment Period
04/22/2015
3
Objection Period Start
06/18/2015
4
Decision
08/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
04/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecial Products Sales
Commercial Spruce Tip Final Decision NoticeDecision Signed Date: 08/12/2015
ForestsTongass National Forest
DistrictsSitka Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Forest products