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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 01/01/2011 to 03/31/2011 - Chequamegon / Nicolet National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)01/01/2011 to 03/31/2011Chequamegon / Nicolet National Forest This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
2011 CNNF Motor Vehicle Use Map UpdateEA
- Recreation management - Road management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 11/20/2010 Expected:03/2011 04/2011 Joan Marburger715-762-5178jmarburger@fs.fed.us Description: The Forest proposes to update the Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) in response to new information concerning public access needs on roads and trails.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/cnnf/MVUM/index.html
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 10/15/2010 Expected:03/2011 05/2011 Daniel Eklund715-762-5194deklund@fs.fed.us Description: The agency proposes to manage its ruffed grouse management areas (RGMAs) to improve and enhance early successional habitat. About 6,000 of 31,000 acres comprising twelve RGMAs are proposed for habitat improvement.
2011 Large Opening ImprovementCE
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants In Progress:Scoping Start 12/20/2010 Expected:02/2011 06/2011 Mike Peczynski715-479-2827mpeczynski@fs.fed.us Description: Three large openings would be improved by discing and seeding with native grass and forb seed to provide nesting habitat for two Regional Forester's Sensitive Species - upland sandpiper and LeConte's sparrow.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34664
Location: UNIT - Eagle River-Florence Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Florence. LEGAL - T41N, R16E, Sections 35 & 36; T39N, R15E, Section 13; and T38N, R15E, Section 24. East side of the Eagle River-Florence Ranger District.
Eagle River City Bike Trail AuthorizationCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 12/20/2010 06/2011 Jeff Herrett715-479-2827jherrett@fs.fed.us Description: Authorization to be issued to the City of Eagle River for the construction, maintenance, and continued use of approximately 70 feet of NFS land. The crushed limestone bike trail segment will be 8 feet wide and may include two 2-foot shoulders.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34294
Location: UNIT - Eagle River-Florence Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Vilas. LEGAL - T40N, R10E, S28. City of Eagle River, WI in Vilas County.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Road management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 08/13/2010Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 02/2011 Expected:07/2011 09/2013 Christine Brunner715-479-2827, ext. 21cbrunner@fs.fed.us Description: Approximately 8,430 acres of timber harvesting, 240 acres of opening improvement, 35 acres of planting, 55 acres of prescribed fire, 31 miles of unauthorized road decommissioning, 6 miles of road closures, and 0.8 miles of new road construction.
Web Link: http://fs.usda.gov/goto/cnnf/nepa
Ashland County Snowmobile Trail Re-routesCE
- Recreation management Completed Actual: 11/16/2010 01/2011 Jim Hong715-634-4821jhong@fs.fed.us Description: The Forest Service is proposing to relocate two segments of snowmobile trail on the Great Divide Ranger District. Both reroutes are on Ashland County Trail 9, Wisconsin.
Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Ashland. LEGAL - Segment 1 (west of Spider Lake) - T43N, R4W, Section 5. Segment 2 (west of Mellen) - T45N, R4W, Section 20. Two locations in Ashland County: Segment 1 - 5 miles north of Clam Lake, west of Spider Lake; Segment 2 - 12 miles west of Mellen, near St. Peters Dome.
- Recreation management In Progress:Scoping Start 06/15/2010 Expected:03/2011 06/2011 Jim Hong715-634-4821jhong@fs.fed.us Description: A new CAMBA trail on the National Forest which would connect existing trails to Bayfield County forest lands west of the Forest. Approximately 1/4 mile of single-track mountain bike trail would be constructed on the National Forest.
Morse Blowdown SalvageCE
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Completed Actual: 11/12/2010 11/2010 Jerry VanCleve715-264-2511jvancleve@fs.fed.us Description: The salvage harvest of approximately 200 acres of damaged trees resulting from a tornado that occurred on July 27, 2010. Project includes mechanical site preparation or prescribed burning in some stands for regeneration and hazardous fuels reduction.
Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Ashland. LEGAL - T43N R2W, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. CNNF, GDRD, Ashland County, East of Hwy. 13 near the town of Morse, WI.
- Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:06/2011 10/2011 Debra Proctor715-634-4821debralproctor@fs.fed.us Description: Relocate the intersections of County Highway D with Forest Road 201 and Forest Road 213 north of the current locations. Construct new sections and decommission unneeded sections of Forest Roads 201 and 213 (new and old approaches to intersection).
Sawyer County Snowmobile Trail 21 RerouteCE
- Recreation management Completed Actual: 12/07/2010 01/2011 Jim Hong715-634-4821jhong@fs.fed.us Description: Move the trail off of FR 203 north of Nowak Rd. New trail construction will be necessary, but existing woods roads will be used as much as possible. Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Sawyer. LEGAL - T 42 N R 6 W Sections 11, 14, 23, 26, 35 and 36 and T 41 N R 6 W Sections 1, 2, 11and 12. A 3 1/2 mile stretch between Highway 77 and FR 650 west of FR 203 and a 2 1/2 mile stretch between Highway 77 and Moose Lake east of County S.
Special Use Road Permit Man-I-Do-Wish Hunting and Fishing Club, LLCCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 11/24/2010 01/2011 Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: Issuance of a Special Uses Authorization to allow use of Federal land for motorized access to private property.
Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Bayfield. LEGAL - NENE Section 35, T43N R6W. 2 miles south of Lake Namekagon and 1 mile northwest of McCloud Lake.
- Forest products Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 12/2010 Expected:01/2011 02/2011 Richard Strauss715-264-2511rstrauss@fs.fed.us Description: The harvest of approximately 200 live red pine trees within two areas totalling about 65 acres. The trees will be a minimum of 12 inches diameter at the base down to 6 inches at the top. Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Sawyer. LEGAL - Township 41 north, Range 6 west, sec. 32. Along Forest Road 319, Compartment 441, Stand 1(15 acres) and Compartment 442, Stand 29, (49 acres),.
Town of Hunter EasementEA
- Special use management Cancelled N/A N/A Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: Authorize a special use easment on FS Roads 3030 and 304
Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Sawyer. LEGAL - T40 N, R6W, Sections 12, 13, 24 & 25, Sawyer County, WI. About 33 miles west of the town of Park Falls, WI.
Twin GhostEIS
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Road management Completed Actual: 11/29/2010 10/2011 Debra Proctor715-634-4821debralproctor@fs.fed.us Description: Management of vegetation to improve forest health and vigor and for the enhancement of wildlife habitat; Ladder fuels reduction; Improvement of the transportation system. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=26466
Location: UNIT - Great Divide Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer. LEGAL - T42N R4W Secs 3-6,7-10,14-20, 30; T42N R5W Secs 1-24; T42N R6W Secs 1-19,21-24; T43N R4W Secs 19-21,28-34; T43N R5W Secs 8-9,13-14,16-20,23-24,26-27, 29-36; T43N R6W Secs 21-23,26-28,32-35. Portions of the NFS lands in MA's 1B, 3B, and 4A on the Great Divide Ranger District between Cable and Clam Lake, WI.
- Recreation management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/29/2010 Expected:03/2011 06/2011 Jim Hong715-634-4821jhong@fs.fed.us Description: Creation of a dual purpose trail head. It would serve as a parking area for walk-in access to Wilson Lake and a southern CAMBA trail head in the Namakagon Cluster. This trailhead on Forest Road 206 would be used to access the Rock Lake SPNM area.
- Recreation management - Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 08/16/2010 Expected:06/2011 06/2011 John Lampereur715-276-6333jlampereur@fs.fed.us Description: Apply Bt (biologic control) to control dispersal of gypsy moth from infested recreation and administrative sites.
Hide and Seek Salvage ProjectCE
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 12/13/2010 Expected:01/2011 01/2011 Mark Dilley715-276-6333.mdilley@fs.fed.us Description: Cut and remove uprooted, leaning, and blowndown trees.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34421
Location: UNIT - Lakewood-Laona Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Oconto. LEGAL - T31N, R17, Sections 3-5, 10, 11, and 14. Southeast area of the Lakewood District.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) Developing ProposalEst. NOI in Federal Register 01/2011 Expected:06/2011 05/2012 Marilee Houtler715-276-6333mhoutler@fs.fed.us Description: This proposal would use timber management, prescribed fire, and planting to move the forest toward the forest plan desired conditions. It would include timber harvest, prescibed burning, stand tending and reforestation, access, and wildlife habitat.
Dresang/Lucek Special Use Road RequestCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 09/27/2010 10/2010 Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: The request consists of use of existing roads and development of a new road for access through federal land to access a private parcel.
Location: UNIT - Medford-Park Falls Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Price. The roads are located in parts of E � E � Section 11 and W � W � Section 12, T37N, R3E, Price County, Wisconsin.
Herman Special Use Road PermitCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 12/10/2010 12/2010 Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: Issuance of a special use road permit for private land access. Access was granted in same location to a previous landowner.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34606
Location: UNIT - Medford-Park Falls Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Price, Taylor. The road is located in Price County WI in T38N, R3E, S36, SENE.
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Road management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 01/12/2010Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 02/2011 Expected:06/2011 10/2011 Jane Darnell715-748-4875, ext 38jdarnell01@fs.fed.us Description: Vegetation and transportation management projects primarily for restoring a landscape of uneven aged northern hardwoods, treatment for reducing threat of emerald ash borer, and other vegetation treatments to improve forest resiliency.
- Recreation management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 12/2010 Expected:03/2011 10/2011 Dawn Meier(715) 748-4875 dmeier@fs.fed.us Description: Designation of a snowmobile trail connection between a Taylor County trail in the vicinity of Mondeaux Flowage and a southern Price County snowmobile trail system using primarily existing travel corridors.
USGS and WGNHS Monitoring WellsCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 10/26/2010 11/2010 Sara Sommer715-362-1365sarasommer@fs.fed.us Description: Issuance of special use permit to Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the construction of two to four groundwater monitoring wells in Price and Taylor Co. WI.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34165 Location: UNIT - Medford-Park Falls Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Price, Taylor. LEGAL - Taylor County: T33N R2W NESE Sec 27 and/or SWNE Sec 34. Price County: T40N R2E NENW Sec 14. Taylor County: North of Perkinstown off of Forest Road 112. Price County: Newman Springs Gravel Pit.
Yellow River BridgeCE
- Recreation management Completed Actual: 11/22/2010 09/2011 Dawn Meier(715) 748-4875 ext. 43dmeier@fs.fed.us Description: Construction of a foot bridge across the South Fork Yellow River on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. This project includes a small re-route of the trail to access the river crossing at a location that is suitable for the foot bridge.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=17560 Location: UNIT - Medford-Park Falls Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Taylor. LEGAL - Part of Section 14, T32N, R2W. The proposed bridge location is located on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail on the South Fork of the Yellow River, about 3 1/2 miles northeast of Perkinstown.
Great Lakes Gas/Trans Canada Pipeline SUP RenewalCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 11/10/2010 12/2010 Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: Proposal to re-issuance special use authorization to use and maintain two, 36-inch buried pipelines, signs, and cathodic protection on federal lands.
Location: UNIT - Washburn Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Bayfield. LEGAL - T47N, R6W, S 4-6; and T47N, R7W, S 1-6; and T48N, R8W, S 36. Five through ten miles east of Iron River, WI.
Kirtland's Warbler Habitat Improvement ProjectEA
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants Completed Actual: 12/06/2010 01/2011 Jennifer Maziasz715-373-2667jmaziasz@fs.fed.us Description: The District is proposing to create habitat for the federally endangered Kirtland�s Warbler. The project involves a 263 acre block of jack pine that will be regenerated, prescribed burned and planted to create one large block of young jack pine.
Location: UNIT - Washburn Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Bayfield. LEGAL - T47N, R7W, Sections 3 -5, 8, 9 16, 33 & T48N, R8W, Section 33. The north end of the Washburn Ranger District near the Moquah Barrens. Seven miles east of the Town of Iron River, WI.
Raspotnik Road SUPCE
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 09/13/2010 Expected:01/2011 01/2011 Joan Cervenka715-762-2461jcervenka@fs.fed.us Description: Authorize a new permit to access a tract of private land in order to replace an expired past permit on an existing road. Affected area is less than 7/10 mile and less than 2 acres.
Location: UNIT - Washburn Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Bayfield. LEGAL - T45N, R7W, Sect 1. The affected area lies about 7 miles north and east of the town of Drummond, WI.
Washburn Red Pine ProjectEA
- Forest products In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/16/2009 Expected:01/2011 01/2011 Jennifer Maziasz715-373-2667jmaziasz@fs.fed.us Description: Approximately 6000 acres of red pine stands across the Washburn District would be thinned to improve growth and vigor. In conjuction with thinning, in some areas thinning slash would be removed to reduce hazardous fuels.
Location: UNIT - Washburn Ranger District. STATE - Wisconsin. COUNTY - Bayfield. LEGAL - Red pine stands across the Washburn Ranger District. For stand locations reference maps on Forest website or contact District office. Red pine stands scattered across the Washburn Ranger District.