Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests — Project Detail

Dominion Energy SC will be rebuilding 6.8 Miles of the Hook Modoc Transmission Line withing the existing permitted row. The action includes ground disturbing maintenance within the existing disturbed permitted Right of Way.

The Enoree Ranger District is proposing approximately 15,500 acres of timber harvest.

The Forest Service is proposing to harvest timber, improve stream and wetland habitat, decommission roads, improve recreation areas, and restore and maintain gullies on approximately 10,000 acres.

Conducting herbicide treatments in and around recreational fishing lakes and ponds on the forest to control vegetation in ponds/lakes, on the dams and around the shore.

The Andrew Pickens Ranger District is proposing to add large wood to streams on the Forest in the headwaters of Lake Jocassee and Lake Keowee.

Vegetation Management in the form of silviculture treatments to include regeneration cuts, thinning and woodland establishment treatments on approximately 3,178 acres of national forest system managed land.

The Forest Service is proposing to do a combination of direct and indirect treatments to suppress and prevent infestations of forest pests and to salvage storm damage.

Home Telephone Company Inc. is proposing to install approximately 16.32 miles of hardened high-speed fiber optic network cable by vibratory plow on the Francis Marion National Forest as part of the USDA Rural Utility Services SC ReConnect 4 fiber opt

The Forest Service is a cooperating agency to the USDA Rural Utilities Service, which is the lead agency for a proposal to construct a 115 KV powerline to McClellanville, SC.

Treating Southern Pine Beetle infestations as they arise and restoring the health of the forest after a natural disaster.

The Enoree and Long Cane Ranger Districts are proposing to use landscape-level prescribed fire on approximately 300,000 acres to reduce woody fuel levels and to improve habitat.

The Sumter National Forest is proposing to do maintenance and repair on approximately 6.2 miles of county jurisdiction roads that run through the Forest in Saluda County.

The Sumter National Forest is proposing to do maintenance and repair on approximately 6.2 miles of county jurisdiction roads that run through the Forest in Saluda County.

We proposed prescribed burning activity on approximately 41,000 acres across the Andrew Pickens Ranger District.

Renewal of existing Priority Use Outfitter Guide Permits on the Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Renewal of expired Special Use Permit for Sewee Visitors Center

Mountain bike and running events on existing trails and roads.