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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 01/01/2013 to 03/31/2013 - Boise National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)01/01/2013 to 03/31/2013Boise National Forest This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
- Special use management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/18/2012 Expected:03/2013 06/2013 Mark Bingman208-382-7422mbingman@fs.fed.us Description: The special use permit for Line 328 would be renewed for another 20-year term. The renewed permit, including those portions of Line 328 on the Emmett and Cascade Ranger Districts only, would also address access to the power line and its structures.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=34320
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2013 Expected:04/2013 06/2013 Elaine Alexander208-373-4318ealexander@fs.fed.us Description: Qwest Corporation is requesting the renewal of its current permit through the creation of a single master permit. The permit will incorporate updated locations of improvements on Boise National Forest lands provided by Qwest.
- Forest products In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/24/2012 Expected:02/2013 06/2013 Joshua Newman208-587-7961jnewman@fs.fed.us Description: This project proposes to complete roadside salvage of dead and dying trees adjacent to high use roads within the 2012 Trinity Ridge Wildfire Area. Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=40991
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 12/15/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 02/2013 Expected:03/2013 07/2013 Mark Leis208-382-7400mleis@fs.fed.us Description: Enhance survival of mature and immature whitebark pine on roughly 1,200 acres by eliminating competing conifer species. Location: UNIT - Cascade Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - T15N, R5E, Section 24. Big Creek Summit.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 12/07/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2013 Expected:02/2013 06/2013 Michael Theisen208-382-7400metheisen@fs.fed.us Description: Timber stand improvement and elimination of wildfire hazard on roughly 10 acres.
Location: UNIT - Cascade Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - T12N, R3E, Section 3. Weast Mountain, FAA shed.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=17492
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/23/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2013 Expected:02/2013 05/2013 Mark Leis208-382-7400mleis@fs.fed.us Description: Plant conifers on approximately 6,500 acres consumed by wildfire.
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:05/2013 08/2013 Melissa Yenko208-373-4245myenko@fs.fed.us Description: This project proposes to amend the special use permit (SUP) for the BOR Scott Mountain Communication Site for proposed upgrades to the facilities including a new tower, microwave dishes, and solar array. Location: UNIT - Emmett Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise, Gem, Valley. LEGAL - T10N, R06E, Section 28. The BOR Scott Mountain Communication Site is located adjacent to the Scott Mountain Lookout Road (NFS Rd 555BC).
Ola A and Ola Hill Range Project. EA
- Grazing management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:09/2013 05/2014 Renee Kehler208-382-7400rkehler@fs.fed.us Description: This project proposes to authorize continued grazing on the Ola A and Ola Hill Cattle and Horse Allotments. Location: UNIT - Emmett Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise, Gem, Valley. The Ola AC&H allotment is located about 2 miles east of Ola, Idaho. The Ola Hill C&H Allotment is located approximately 2 miles Northast of Ola, Idaho.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 06/20/2012 Expected:01/2013 06/2013 John Riling208-365-7000jriling@fs.fed.us Description: The purpose of this project is to restore vegetation conditions on about 1,626 acres of ponderosa pine plantations on the Emmett Ranger District. Plantations would be thinned using chainsaws followed by activity fuels treatments.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38703
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:DEIS NOA in Federal Register 09/07/2012Est. FEIS NOA in Federal Register 01/2013 Expected:01/2013 09/2013 Ann Roseberry208-365-7023aroseberry@fs.fed.us Description: This project is designed to modify stand conditions to improve wildlife habitat and increase resiliency to insects, disease and wildfire; as well as improve watershed conditions and reduce long-term sedimentation caused by existing roads.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=17267
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 06/2013 Mark Bingman208-382-7422mbingman@fs.fed.us Description: Special use renewal for a group water systems on the Emmett Ranger District.
- Forest products Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 John Wallace208-392-3754jdwallace@fs.fed.us Description: The 49er Salvage project would remove blown down, snapped off and insect infected trees on approximately 20 acres.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2013 Expected:03/2014 05/2014 Michael Feiger208-392-6681mfeiger@fs.fed.us Description: Vegetation management in a 15,000-acre project area. The project will involve prescribed burning, commercial harvest and non-commercial tree thinning. Road construction and road decommissioning will be associated activities.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:08/2013 08/2013 Joseph Manning208-392-3719cchood@fs.fed.us Description: The proponent would remove roughly 30,000 cubic yards of mineral material from five waste dumps and process material to extract precious metals. The waste dumps were left from the old Belshazzar Mine and will be processed on nearby private lands.
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2013 Expected:05/2013 06/2013 Lance Ellison208-392-6681lellison@fs.fed.us Description: Precommercial thinning project on about 8,900 acres of young overstocked plantation and naturally regenerated timber stands within the 1993 Rabbit Creek Burn Area. Thinned trees would generally be less than 15 feet tall with slash left on site. Location: UNIT - Idaho City Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise. LEGAL - T7N & 8N, R 8E & 9E. North Fork Boise River Drainage - Lower Bear River, Upper Bear River, Upper Crooked River, and Taylor-Lodgepole 6th Field HUCs.
Fall Creek PlacerCE
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:04/2013 06/2013 Joseph Manning208-392-3719cchood@fs.fed.us Description: The proponent will utilize a excavator to remove sands and gravel and utilize a trommel to extract precious metals
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 Joseph Manning208-392-3719cchood@fs.fed.us Description: The proposed operation is to utilize a mini-excavator to extract sands and gravels and utilize a highbanker to extract precious metals.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 Joseph Manning208-392-3719cchood@fs.fed.us Description: The proponent will utilize a mini-excavator to extract sand and gravel and process it through a trommel to extract precious metals
Location: UNIT - Idaho City Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise. LEGAL - Boise County, Township 7N Range 4E Section 11, Boise Meridian. Operation site is approximately 400 yds up from confluence with Woof Cr. on the north side of China Fork Creek. Access is off FS 615AB road roughly 2 miles north of Placerville.
- Forest products Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 John Wallace208-392-3754jdwallace@fs.fed.us Description: The Ophir Salvage project would remove blown down, snapped off and insect infected trees on approximately 4 acres.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 Joseph Manning208-392-3719cchood@fs.fed.us Description: The operator will use a mini-excavator or similar size equipment to excavate sand and gravel and process it in a self-contained unit to extract precious metals.
- Forest products Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:03/2013 05/2013 John Wallace208-392-3754jdwallace@fs.fed.us Description: The Wildcat Salvage project would remove blown down, snapped off and insect infected trees on approximately 4 acres.
- Forest products - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/28/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2013 Expected:04/2013 08/2013 Sarah Fischer208-259-3361sfischer@fs.fed.us Description: All dead and imminently dead large trees greater than or equal to 7 inches dbh within 160 feet of National Forest System (NFS) road 579 would be cut and removed. All trees less than 5 inches dbh would be felled and burned. Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=40709
- Recreation management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/15/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 02/2013 Expected:06/2013 10/2013 John Kidd208-374-5422jkidd@fs.fed.us Description: This collaborative project proposes vegetation restoration, fuel reduction in WUI areas, mountain bike trail construction, road closures/decomissioning and aquatic organism passage elements within a 22,850 acre project area. Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37159
Idaho Power Precipitation Gauge Special Use PermitCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 12/03/2012 07/2013 Melissa Yenko208-373-4245myenko@fs.fed.us Description: Idaho Power is proposing to install precipitation gauges at four existing weather monitoring sites. The data from the precipitation gauges is needed to monitor Idaho Power�s weather modification project and for research purposes.
Location: UNIT - Lowman Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise, Valley. Gauges would be placed at NRCS SNOTEL sites at Banner Summit, Cozy Cove, and Deadwood Summit and at the Bearskin Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) site.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:09/2013 10/2013 Rebecca Swenson208-259-3361rjswenson@fs.fed.us Description: This project proposes fuels reduction in and around the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and vegetation restoration through prescribed fire treatments on approximately 6,000 acres.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=29378
- Special use management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/17/2012 Expected:01/2013 01/2013 John Kidd208-374-5422jkidd@fs.fed.us Description: Special use permit renewal for 8 water systems on the Lowman Ranger District within the SF Payette River Corridor including systems on Richards Creek, Kirkham Creek, Wapiti Creek, Long Creek, 2 systems on Dustman Creek and 2 systems on Fence Cr.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38940
- Forest products In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/15/2012 Expected:02/2013 06/2013 Joshua Newman208-587-7961jnewman@fs.fed.us Description: Commercial timber harvest of 200 acres of dead and dying trees resulting from the Avelene Fire. Harvest activities would utilize ground based logging. No new permanent or temporary roads construction/reconstruction would occur with this project.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=40634
- Grazing management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/23/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 03/2013 Expected:09/2013 05/2014 Holly Myers208-587-7961hamyers@fs.fed.us Description: This project will evaluate current livestock management on the Featherville Sheep and Goat (S&G) Allotment and proposes to authorize continued livestock grazing on approximately 142,800 acres of National Forest System land.
Web Link: http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_exp.php?project=8867
Foothills Frenzy 50K Trail RaceCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 10/16/2012 10/2012 Lori Ankrum208-587-7961 ex 7132lankrum@fs.fed.us Description: Foothills Frenzy 50K Trail Race would use 3.5 miles of NFS road 275, commonly referred to as the Boise Ridge Road. Location: UNIT - Mountain Home Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Boise. NFS road 275, Boise Ridge Road.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:04/2013 06/2013 Casey Watson208-587-7961 x 7171cwatson02@fs.fed.us Description: The proponent proposes to conduct minerals exploration activities to acquire detailed geologic data within the Henry Clay mineral claims group to determine the extent of the mineral resources. Location: UNIT - Mountain Home Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Elmore. LEGAL - Portions of Sections 17, 18, and 20, Township 7 North, Range 4 East, Boise Meridian. The Henry Clay mineral claims are located between Featherville and Rocky Bar, Idaho.