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229.) and the regulations under the Act. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Six Rivers National Forest, Mad River 

Ranger District, CA; Buck Mountain 

Vegetation and Fuel Management 

Project EIS 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Six Rivers National 

Forest (Six Rivers NF) will prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement to 

disclose the impacts associated with the 

following proposed actions: 

1. Fuel reduction would occur and be 

located along corridors primarily on 

strategically placed ridges, along highly 

traveled roads and within isolated 

stands near private property. Treatment 

would consist of thinning trees less than 

8′′ diameter breast-height (DBH) and 

removing brush within treatment areas. 

Commercial biomass would be a byproduct of this treatment. Fuel 

treatments would augment on-going 

road brush treatment projects funded by 

the Community Wildfire Protection Plan 

(CWPP) located in the northwest corner 

of the project area. 

2. All previously managed plantations 

would be treated, either with 

commercial thinning or timber stand 

improvements (TSI). Both treatments are 

designed to reduce stand density, 

decrease competition and improve 

growing space for residual trees. 

Commercially thinned plantations 

would consist of thinning trees greater 

than 8′′ DBH. Plantations without a 

commercial saw-log component (TSI) 

would consist of thinning trees less than 

8′′ DBH and reducing brush. 

Commercial biomass would be a byproduct of TSI treatments. 

3. Off-site ponderosa pine plantations 

would be thinned to promote growth of 

naturally occurring tree species. 

4. Douglas-fir/tanoak plantations 

would be thinned, and most of the 

planted pine within these plantations 

would be removed, while a portion of 

the hardwood component would be 

maintained. 

5. Pure stands of Douglas-fir would be 

thinned to increase growing space for 

overstocked early seral stands. Stands 

that once contained a significant black 

oak component would be thinned to 

encourage black oak regeneration. 

6. Douglas-fir and white fir stands 

with viable oak and pine would be 

thinned to reduce overall stand density, 

and trees that compete with healthy 

hardwoods and pines would be 

removed to increase their viability and 

promote their regeneration. 

7. All treatments would maintain tree 

species mix of hardwoods and conifers. 

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DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

March 3, 2011. The draft environmental 

impact statement is expected August 

2011 and the final environmental 

impact statement is expected November 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Buck Mountain Project Team, Mad 

River Ranger District, 741 State 

Highway 36, Bridgeville, CA 95526. 

Comments may also be sent via 

facsimile to (707) 574–6273. Electronic 

comments, in acceptable plain text 

(.txt), rich text (.rtf), or Word (.doc) may 

be submitted to commentspacificsouthwest-six-rivers-madriver@fs.fed.us. Please insure that ‘‘Buck 

Mountain Project’’ occurs in the subject 

line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Individuals who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 

a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Forest Service is proposing the 

Buck Mountain Vegetation and Fuel 

Management Project to accelerate latesuccessional forest characteristics, 

reduce excessive fuel loading, and 

improve and restore forest ecosystem 

health. The Buck Mountain planning 

area encompasses approximately 14,396 

acres, of which 10,058 acres are 

National Forest System (NFS) lands. 

The project would treat approximately 

2,062 acres of NFS lands. Treatment 

would consist of: (1) Commercially 

harvesting timber stands under 130 

years old, through thinning on 

approximately 613 acres of natural 

stands, 389 acres of plantations and 44 

acres of oak restoration; (2) noncommercial timber stand improvement 

on 788 acres of previously managed 

stands; and (3) stand alone fuels 

treatments on 1,228 acres, primarily 

located along strategically located roads 

and ridge tops. 

The proposed project would take 

place within the Upper Van Duzen 

watershed on NFS lands administered 

by the Mad River Ranger District in 

Humboldt County and Trinity County, 

California. The legal location includes 

portions of the following townships: 

Township 1 North, Range 5 East; 

Township 1 North, Range 6 East; 

Township 1 South, Range 6 East; and 

Township 1 South, Range 5 East, 

Humboldt Baseline and Meridian. 

(1) The majority of the Buck Mountain 

Planning Area occurs within the Eel 

River Late-Successional Reserve (LSR). 

A Forest-wide Late Successional 

Reserve Assessment (LSRA, 1999) 

determined that this area of the LSR was 

deficient in late-successional habitat. 

Portions of the LSR were previously 

privately owned and heavily harvested. 

Extensive stands of plantations exist 

that do not provide suitable habitat for 

late successional species such as the 

northern spotted owl. The LSRA 

identified this area as needing density 

management and fuel reduction 

treatments to develop and protect latesuccessional habitat. Management 

opportunities exist in conifer stands that 

are in the tanoak, Douglas-fir and white 

fir series that are either old plantations 

or natural stands that are less than 130 

years old. They are characterized 

generally as overstocked with high fuel 

loadings. 

(2) The majority of the planning area 

occurs within the Wildland Urban 

Interface (WUI) areas for the 

communities of Mad River and 

Dinsmore as well as residences along 

the Van Duzen River in Trinity County 

and Humboldt County. 

(3) Oak woodland communities 

historically comprised a much greater 

percentage of the landscape than today. 

In 1855 approximately 36% of the North 

Fork of the Eel River watershed, a 

component of LSR 307, was composed 

of oak woodland communities, and 

currently it is about 6%. Evidence 

within the Buck Mountain Planning 

Area suggests a similar decline in oak 

woodland communities. Oak 

communities have greater native grass 

and forbs species diversity than adjacent 

conifer forests and provide greater 

forage habitat for deer populations than 

adjacent vegetation communities. 

Additionally, grasses and forbs mature 

later in the summer beneath oak 

communities, which can extend the 

availability of forage and reduce the rate 

of spread of wildfire. 

(4) The Van Duzen River Watershed 

Analysis (Van Duzen River WA, 1998) 

had determined that current road 

densities were too high within the Van 

Duzen watershed and the Eel River LSR. 

The LSR as a whole had been evaluated 

to have 3.1 miles of roads per square 

mile. Road density within the project 

area on Federal lands is even higher, at 

3.6 miles per square mile. Reducing the 

road density within the project area 

would reduce sediment levels and 

benefit aquatic habitats. 

Decommissioning (should opportunities 

exist) would help accomplish this. 

Management Areas 

The Mad River Ranger District is 

managed under the Six Rivers National 

Forest Land Resource Management Plan 

(LRMP). The National Forest Service 

portion of the planning area has two 

management area allocations: 

Management Area 8—Special Habitat 

(9,612 acres): The majority of the 

planning area consists of this 

management area. Special habitat 

within the planning area consists of the 

Eel River Late-Successional Reserve 

(LSR). This management area is 

intended to provide a core of relatively 

undisturbed habitat for plants and 

animals associated with mature and old 

growth forests. The management 

emphasis and goal is to protect and 

enhance late-successional habitat 

(LRMP, IV–34, 35). 

Management Area 17—General Forest 

(446 acres): A small portion of the 

planning area is within this 

management area. General Forest 

includes forested land where 

commercial timber management is 

expected to occur. Examples of 

allowable silvicultural activities include 

timber harvest, reforestation, conifer 

release, pre-commercial thinning, and 

forest pest management. The primary 

goals are to produce a sustained yield of 

timber, contribute younger seral stages 

to the vegetation mosaic of the forest, 

and conserve key components of 

functional habitat for mature and old 

growth-associated species (LRMP IV– 

63). 

Required Consultations 

The LRMP requires consultation with 

potentially affected Native American 

Tribes as part of the Forest’s Native 

American trust responsibilities. 

Consultation was initiated with the Bear 

River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, 

the Table Bluff Reservation–Wiyot 

Tribes and the Round Valley Indian 

Tribes in the late fall of 2009. There 

were no concerns expressed. The Forest 

Tribal Relations Specialist will 

complete Tribal consultation beyond the 

initiation phase. 

Consultation with the Regional 

Ecosystem Office (REO) is required 

because of the proposed cutting of trees 

greater than 20’’ DBH in this planning 

area. Early consultation has been 

initiated by the REO. The REO LSR 

working group agreed with the rationale 

for exceeding the 20’’ DBH cut limit, and 

a finalized formal exemption is pending. 

It would be granted prior to the issuance 

of the Record of Decision (ROD) once 

the LSR working group determined that 

implementing the project’s silviculture 

prescriptions would meet the objectives 

of Late Successional Reserves under the 

Northwest Forest Plan. 

The Endangered Species Act requires 

consultation with the United States Fish 

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and Wildlife Service (FWS) regarding 

any proposal that may affect a Federally 

listed threatened or endangered species. 

We will work closely with this agency 

through the Forest Level I wildlife 

biologist to fulfill consultation 

requirements for listed and proposed 

species. 

The Endangered Species Act requires 

consultation with the United States 

National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS) regarding any proposal that 

may affect a Federally listed threatened 

or endangered marine species. We will 

work closely with this agency through 

the fisheries biologist to fulfill 

consultation requirements for listed and 

proposed species. 

The Clean Water Act requires Forest 

level consultation with the North Coast 

California Water Quality Control Board 

(NCCWQCB) to assure that basin plan 

standards for water quality are met by 

the proposal. This consultation will 

begin soon after preliminary Best 

Management Practices and project 

design features have been identified. 

Late-Successional Reserve Management 

Silvicultural prescriptions for the 

proposed treatment units in stands no 

older than 80 years conform to the 

criteria documented in the Forest-wide 

LSR Assessment. The Regional 

Ecosystem Office LSRA memorandum 

dated March 3, 2000 sanctioned 

proposed treatments of stands between 

80 and 130 years old within LSRs on the 

Six Rivers NF, but it would require a 

non-significant Forest Plan amendment. 

The REO acknowledged the case-bycase need to exceed the 20’’ DBH 

diameter cut limit requirement that 

would be needed to be met for the 

project to be exempt from further REO 

review. The proposal includes treatment 

of stands that would require the cutting 

of trees greater than 20’’ DBH to 

effectively meet LSR objectives. This 

proposal warranted consultation with 

the REO. A tentative verbal agreement 

has been issued allowing the proposal to 

proceed. A written memorandum 

sanctioning the proposal will be drafted 

once the preferred alternative is issued 

and issued before the ROD is signed. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

There is a need in the Buck Mountain 

Planning Area to manage vegetation and 

fuel in select conifer stands, oak 

woodlands and shrub fields for the 

purpose of achieving the following 

objectives: 

• Accelerate the development of latesuccessional habitat characteristics in 

plantations and in early to mid-mature 

natural stands (up to 130 years old). 

• Improve the health of conifer and 

oak woodland communities, increase 

their resiliency to wildfires and disease 

outbreaks, restore species diversity and 

reduce stand densities in overstocked 

stands. 

• Minimize wildfire threat to local 

communities in strategic locations, 

along travel routes and near private 

residential property by reducing fuel 

buildup in stands in the WUI where 

stand conditions have high amounts of 

surface and ladder fuels. 

In fulfilling the objectives listed 

above, there are opportunities to 

provide commodities in the form of 

timber, biomass, and fuelwood. All 

commercial activities and by-products 

would be incidental in achieving the 

desired outcomes stated in the purpose 

and need. There is also an opportunity 

to reduce open road densities in the 

planning area for watershed and latesuccessional habitat health. 

Management Opportunities To Meet the 

Purpose and Need 

To meet the purpose and need, the 

Six Rivers National Forest proposes to 

manage vegetation and treat fuel 

loadings on approximately 3,062 acres 

of National Forest System lands 

administered by the Mad River Ranger 

District. Potential treatment 

opportunities include the following: 

• 1,046 acres of commercial harvest 

in plantations, natural stands up to 130 

years old and oak woodlands. 

Silvicultural treatments would include 

commercial thinning, oak release, and 

thinning/sanitation cutting. Ground 

skidding, skyline cable, and helicopter 

logging methods may be employed, as 

dictated by cost efficiency and resource 

protection needs. Potential harvest yield 

is about 4.5 to 5.5 MMBF. 

Activities associated with commercial 

harvesting include use of existing roads, 

skid trails, and landings, activity fuel 

treatments, and road maintenance/ 

minor reconstruction along haul routes. 

New skid trails and landings would be 

needed in some areas to facilitate 

harvest activities. Harvest activity fuel 

treatments may involve a combination 

of mechanical techniques (biomass 

utilization, chipping, yarding tops, 

machine piling/burning), manual 

techniques (hand piling/burning and 

lop/scatter to 18’’ or less depth), and 

prescribed burning. 

Approximately 6.0 miles of temporary 

road may be needed to perform these 

treatments. Approximately 3.8 miles 

would use existing road beds (old 

logging roads and illegal woodcutting 

roads). Approximately 2.2 miles would 

be newly constructed temporary roads. 

No new system road construction is 

anticipated. Temporary roads would be 

decommissioned after project 

completion. 

• 788 acres of timber stand 

improvement (TSI) in plantations and 

young natural stands. Silvicultural 

treatments include non-commercial 

thinning and release and commercial 

biomass utilization. As with commercial 

harvesting, activity fuel treatments 

would also be prescribed. 

• 46 acres of stand-alone fuel 

reduction in early to mid-mature seral 

natural stands. Prescribed treatments 

include small tree cutting, mastication, 

road-side chipping, prescribed fire, 

hand piling, biomass/fuelwood 

utilization, raking/windrowing, lop and 

scatter to 18’’ or less depth and machine 

piling. 

• 1,182 acres of fuelbreak 

construction along strategic travel routes 

and ridges. Prescribed treatments within 

300 feet on either side of selected roads, 

which are outside of commercial 

harvest, TSI, and stand-alone fuel 

reduction units, may include one or 

several of the following: Small tree 

cutting, mastication, roadside chipping, 

prescribed burning (underburning and 

jackpot burning), hand piling/burning, 

lop/scatter to 18’’ or less depth and 

machine piling. 

• Hauling of commercial timber 

products on State Highway 36, County 

Roads 511 and 512 and Forest Service 

System roads within the planning area. 

Felling and removal, where appropriate, 

of hazard trees along haul routes. 

• Decommissioning of non-essential 

existing roads outside of the proposed 

treatment areas may be included in the 

design of this project to reduce road 

density as part of the restoration of latesuccessional habitat and watershed 

conditions. 

Proposed Action 

Most of the project area is located 

within a LSR. Proposed fuel and harvest 

units were chosen based on criteria that 

would meet two objectives of LSRs: (1) 

Protecting existing and potential latesuccessional habitat from catastrophic 

loss due to wildfire or disease and/or 

bug outbreak from overstocked stand 

conditions, and (2) Accelerating 

development of late-successional 

habitat. The proposed action is designed 

to meet the project’s purpose and need 

while satisfying the standards and 

guidelines of the LRMP. The Buck 

Mountain Vegetation and Fuel 

Management Project would treat 

vegetation in the following ways: 

• Fuel reduction would be located 

along corridors primarily on 

strategically placed ridges, along highly 

traveled roads and within isolated 

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stands near private property. Treatment 

would consist of thinning trees less than 

8′′ DBH and removing brush within 

treatment areas. Commercial biomass 

would be a by-product of this treatment. 

Fuel treatments would augment ongoing road brush treatment projects 

funded by the Community Wildfire 

Protection Plan (CWPP) located in the 

northwest corner of the project area. 

• All previously managed plantations 

would be treated, either with 

commercial thinning or timber stand 

improvements (TSI). Both treatments are 

designed to reduce stand density, 

decrease competition and improve 

growing space for residual trees. 

Commercially thinned plantations 

would consist of thinning trees greater 

than 8′′ DBH. Plantations without a 

commercial saw-log component (TSI) 

would consist of thinning trees less than 

8′′ DBH and reducing brush. 

Commercial biomass would be a byproduct of TSI treatments. 

• Off-site ponderosa pine plantations 

would be thinned to promote growth of 

naturally occurring tree species. 

• Douglas-fir/tanoak plantations 

would be thinned, and most of the 

planted pine within these plantations 

would be removed, while a portion of 

the hardwood component would be 

maintained. 

• Pure stands of Douglas-fir would be 

thinned to increase growing space for 

overstocked early seral stands. Stands 

that once contained a significant black 

oak component would be thinned to 

encourage black oak regeneration. 

• Douglas-fir and white fir stands 

with viable oak and pine would be 

thinned to reduce overall stand density, 

and trees that compete with healthy 

hardwoods and pines would be 

removed to increase their viability and 

promote their regeneration. 

All treatments would maintain tree 

species mix of hardwoods and conifers. 

Maps and tables detailing the 

proposed action can be found at http:// 

www.fs.fed.us/r5/sixrivers/. 

In addition, maps will be available for 

viewing at: 

Mad River Ranger District, 741 

Highway 36 (28 miles east of 

Bridgeville), Bridgeville, CA 95526; 

phone: 707–574–6233. 

Responsible Official 

Thomas Hudson, District Ranger, Mad 

River Ranger District, 741 Highway 36, 

Bridgeville, CA 95526. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The responsible official will decide 

whether to adopt and implement the 

proposed action, an alternative to the 

proposed action, or take no action. 

Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement. It is important that 

reviewers provide their comments at 

such times and in such manner that 

they are useful to the agency’s 

preparation of the environmental impact 

statement. Therefore, comments should 

be provided prior to the close of the 

comment period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. Comments received in 

response to this solicitation, including 

names and addresses of those who 

comment, will be part of the public 

record for this proposed action. 

Comments submitted anonymously will 

be accepted and considered; however, 

those who only submit anonymous 

comments will not have standing to 

appeal the subsequent decision under 

36 CFR part 215. 

Dated: January 11, 2011. 

Tyrone Kelley, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Fishlake National Forest; Utah; Oil and 

Gas Leasing EIS 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Corrected Notice of Intent to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the Oil and Gas Leasing 

Analysis. The original notice was 

published on July 7, 2006. 

SUMMARY: The Fishlake National Forest 

(FNF) is preparing an environmental 

impact statement (EIS) to disclose the 

potential effects of a proposal to make 

lands administered by the FNF available 

for oil and gas leasing, and to determine 

what lease stipulations would apply to 

those lands. The proposal also includes 

amending the FNF Land and Resource 

Management Plan (LRMP) to update 

management direction for minerals 

management, specifically oil and gas. 

The scope of the analysis is forest-wide. 

A Notice of Intent (NOI) was first 

published for this proposal on July 7, 

2006, Volume 71, No. 130, pages 38602– 

38604. Due to the length of time that has 

passed since the first NOI was 

published, the FNF is publishing this 

Corrected NOI. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis were received during the 

initial scoping period in 2006, and are 

being considered in the preparation of 

this EIS. New or additional comments 

should be received within 30 days from 

the publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. The draft EIS is 

expected April 2011 and the final EIS is 

expected October 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Shelly Dyke, Team Leader, Fishlake 

National Forest, 115 E. 900 North, 

Richfield, Utah 84701; phone (801) 597– 

7633; fax (435) 896–0374; e-mail: 

forest_service_act2@fs.fed.us. 

Comments may also be sent via e-mail 

to sdyke@fs.fed.us. Please include ‘‘Oil 

and Gas Leasing Analysis’’ on the 

subject line. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such a way that they are useful to the 

Agency’s preparation of the EIS. 

Therefore, comments should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. 

Comments received, including names 

and addresses of those who comment, 

will be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered, however those who submit 

comments anonymously would not be 

considered to have standing in the 

process. Those who commented during 

the initial scoping period need not 

resubmit comments, unless there are 

additional comments they wish to make. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Zappell, Public Affairs Officer at (435) 

896–1070. 

Technical Contact: Diane Freeman, 

Ecosystem Staff Officer at (435) 896– 

1050. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

Agency regulations at 36 CFR 228.102 

require the Forest Service to analyze 

lands under their jurisdiction that have 

not already been analyzed for oil and 

gas leasing. None of the lands 

administered by the FNF have 

previously been analyzed for oil and gas 

leasing. In analyzing lands for oil and 

gas leasing, the Forest Service must 

comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing 

Reform Act (FOOGLRA) of 1987 

establishes consent authority to the 

Forest Service for leasing, prior to the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

offering National Forest System lands 

for lease. The BLM Utah State Office has 

received several Expressions of Interest 

(EOI) for leasing portions of the FNF. In 

order to facilitate the BLM processing 

and responding to those EOIs, the FNF 

must first complete a leasing analysis to 

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