Lolo National Forest — Project Detail

WAM is a risk-based strategic fuels management project. It proposes mechanized and non-mechanized fuel and vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire hazard and associated risk in strategic locations. For implementation updates see: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/lolo/projects/wildfire-adapted-missoula .

The project proposes activities including harvest, thinning trees, and managing fuel loads across a project area of approximately 5,800 acres with roughly 2,700 acres of treatment proposed on Forest Service lands.

The project proposes to increase the application of prescribed fire across fire adapted landscapes; reducing the risk of uncharacteristically severe and large wildfires, promoting forest resiliency, and lessen impacts to local communities.

The project proposes commercial harvest, thinning, and fuels treatments on 17,864 acres of Forest Service lands in the Seeley Lake District, in addition to necessary roadwork and temporary road construction for implementation.

Land management plan revision for the Lolo National Forest under the 2012 Planning Rule.

The Forest Service is proposing to sell multiple tracts of land being a portion of the South Side Addition in the N1/2SE1/4 of section 29, T.13 N., R 19 W., Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County. Montana. See: https://usfs-public.box.com/s/8p717b4j1blwi1q0p4v9qqrpn285rmqn for more detail.

Treatments to accomplish the project objectives include using tree thinning and slashing, prescribed fire, weed treatments, and road treatments. The FS has prepared a Supplemental EA to clarify the project's compliance with the Forest plan.

Proposed Fuels and Forest Health project on approximately 33,440 acres located south east of the confluence of Rock Creek and the Clark Fork River in Granite County and Missoula County on the Missoula Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest.

The project proposes vegetation and road management activities to reduce hazardous fuels, restore fire resistant vegetative conditions, maintain or restore fish and wildlife habitat, and provide for public health and safety.