Kootenai National Forest — Project Detail

Vegetation and fuels management activities near the communities of Whitepine and Beaver Creek, Sanders County, Montana.

The Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors Ace Placer is located adjacent to the Libby Creek Recreational Gold Panning Area and would occur on an already existing mining operation site. The proponent has requested permission to expand their operation adjacent to the current operation.

The original proposal included timber harvest and prescribed fire on National Forest Service lands in Pilgrim Creek near the community of Noxon, Montana. Activities to still to be completed include 219 acres of timber harvest, ~4,564 acres of burning, 370 acres of planting and road storage work.

This is a supplemental EA. Potential project activities would focus on forest health issues including insect and disease, hazardous fuels reduction, and restoration activities and may include vegetation and road management, watershed improvements, and noxious weed treatments.

We are proposing to complete motorized over-snow planning across the forest to comply with the Travel Management Rule in the Over-snow Motorized Use Travel Plan. This travel plan includes National Forest System lands on the Libby, Cabinet, Three Rivers, Fortine and Rexford Ranger Districts.

Timber harvest and fuel treatments

Hazardous Fuel project

HFRA Wildfire Resiliency CE

The proposed alternative includes recreation improvements, harvest on 2,971 acres, non-harvest fuels treatment on 6,856 acres, permanent and temporary road construction, road maintenance, and road storage, treatment in old growth, and harvest units over 40 acres.

Build resistance and resiliency to disturbance through vegetation management, reduce hazardous fuels, provide forest products, and build whitebark pine resistance to blister rust through restoration and planting

Timber Harvest EIS

HRFA Wildfire Resiliency CE

GNA roadside fuelbreak

7,870 acre vegetation management project to address desired conditions and hazardous fuels.

Timberlane Campground Deferred Maintenance

This project proposes to reduce hazardous fuels and manage stands to increase forest health and resilience in the project area. This project includes 808 acres of non-harvest fuel treatment, 916 acres of harvest treatment, treatment in old growth and road construction and maintenance.

Fire Salvage

Vegetation Mgmt Project

Alternative 2 include regeneration harvest, intermediate harvest, regeneration harvest with opening over 40 acres, non-harvest fuel treatments, pre-commercial thinning, road decommissioning and storage, road construction and maintenance, road work to improve the watershed and recreation improvements

The USFS’ need is to respond to Montanore Minerals Corporation's submittal of a Plan and ensure operations would be conducted, where feasible, to reasonably minimize adverse environmental impacts on NFS surface resources (36 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] 228.8, Subpart A).

Fuels Reduction Project east/northeast of Yaak, MT. This project aims to restore forest stands and enhance forest resiliency by shifting stands from their current condition towards desired conditions, as outlined in the Forest Plan.

The project proposes fire salvage, roadside hazard tree removal, reforestation, riparian planting, and soil restoration.

Fire salvage and reforestation in the 2023 East Fork Fire area.

Fuels reduction in the wildland urban interface in the Edna Creek and Fortine Creek drainages adjacent to Trego, MT

Travel management, Timber sales (green), Timber sales (salvage), Forest vegetation improvements, Fuel treatments (non-activity fuels)

Prescribed burning of hazardous fuels in the WUI; vegetation management, meadow encroachment reduction, thinning, aspen enhancement; wildlife habitat improvement, reduction of non-native invasive species and noxious weeds; travel system management.

Hazardous fuel reduction activities, including on Forest Service lands in the Wildland Urban Interface in the Glen Lake, Sinclair Creek, and Ksanka foothills areas.

Salvage of windthrown timber in the lower Grave Creek and Williams Creek drainages.

Timber Harvest, Fuel Reduction, Thinning, Understory Burning and Road Management

Treatment of approximately 402 acres to remove dead, dying, and at-risk Douglas-fir to address ongoing Douglas-fir beetle outbreak. Activity to occur in the Trego, Dickey Lake, Ant Flat Area.

Treat approximately 1,371 acres of Douglas-fir beetle National Forest System lands with timber harvest to reduce risk, recover economic value, and reduce fuels in the wildland urban interface.

Vegetation Management, Fuels Management, and Transportation Management in the Pinkham and Meadow Planning Areas of the Rexford and Fortine Ranger Districts.

Salvage dead and dying trees, and plant tree seedlings in portions of the Tenmile and Sterling Complex fire areas.

Timber harvest (3,400 acres), prescribed burning (2,000 acres); prescribed burning w/ mechanical pre-treatment (1,500 acres); road management (decommissioning, etc); and recreation facilities. Forest Plan exceptions and openings greater than 40 acre.

Great American Outdoors Act project to modernize and redesign of campsites, boat launch road access, overflow, and parking at North Dickey Lake Campground.

Provide management access to Stimson Lumber Company lands through National Forest land. Two short segments of new road, totaling about 2600 feet (about 3 acres), would replace access on costly and currently inaccessible National Forest System roads.

Recreation Site management to address increased use

We are proposing timber harvest; mechanical and hand piling of fuels; wildlife and aquatic habitat improvement such as prescribed burning and stream restoration work.

Project to reduce fuels in the Libby fireshed.

Designation of over-snow motorized use areas and non-snow trail management.The Forest Service has undertaken a new Forest-Wide over-snow project to include the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area project, combined, as of 4/26/2024.

The Comprehensive Plan will develop administrative and management objectives and practices and desired conditions for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail on public lands in Forest Service Regions 1 and Regions 6.

Vegetation Management and Fuels Reduction in the Sunday Creek area.

Vegetation management via precommercial and commercial harvest, & burning of activity fuels only within previously managed, second growth stands across the Forest. The project is part of the Montana Governor's Forest in Focus Initiative.