Environmental Assessment Completed

LaCroix Landscape Project

Superior National Forest St. Louis, Minnesota LaCroix Ranger District

Collaborative effort between resource managers, stakeholders, and land owners to improve forest conditions using an all lands approach. Forest management treatments to address natural resource priority objectives across multiple land ownerships.

Location

Approximately 500,000 acres of federal, state, county, tribal, industrial and private lands in Northeast Minnesota.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
07/13/2022
2
Comment Period
12/12/2023
3
Objection Period Start
07/09/2024
4
Decision
09/2024 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
10/2024 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityForest Vegetation Improvements
LaCroix Landscape Project Final Decision NoticeDecision Signed Date: 09/11/2024
ForestsSuperior National Forest
DistrictsLaCroix Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsForest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels managementRoad management