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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 04/01/2013 to 06/30/2013 - Ozark-St. Francis National Forests Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)04/01/2013 to 06/30/2013Ozark-St. Francis National Forests This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Minerals and Geology - Road management Completed Actual: 11/20/2012 02/2013 Michael Mulford870-446-5122mmulford@fs.fed.us Description: Landscape scale project, proposals include; Wildlife treatments,Timber sales, RX Burning, NNIS control, Road Management, Trails management etc. Location: UNIT - Bayou Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Johnson, Pope. Generally it is the watersheds of Indian creek, Mocassian Creek, Page Hollow, and Gunter Branch located about 20 miles north of Dover west of State Highway 7.
Southwestern Energy 2-D Seismic ProposalCE
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 03/07/2013 Expected:05/2013 06/2013 Michael Mulford870-446-5122mmulford@fs.fed.us Description: This is a subsurface geophysical mapping proposal. Includes 1 seismic line 9 miles long (5 miles on National Forest and 4 miles on private land).
Location: UNIT - Bayou Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Conway, Van Buren. LEGAL - Township 09 North, Range 16 West, Sections 6, 7 &18 in Conway County and Township 10 North, Range 16 West, Sections 6, 7, 18, 19, 30 & 31 in Van Buren County. Generally located on the Southeast portion of the Forest. West of the community of Clevland.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 06/20/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 10/2012 Expected:12/2012 06/2013 Michael Mulford870-446-5122 ext. 5136mmulford@fs.fed.us Description: Use of herbicides on a 20-mile by 100ft powerline right-of-way easement.
- Special use management Completed Actual: 07/31/2012 01/2013 Michael Mulford870-446-5122mmulford@fs.fed.us Description: Amendment to Arkansas State Highway Permit to add a Northbound Passing lane to Arkansas State Highway 7 in the area of Oak Grove Cemetery.
Three Knob ProjectEA
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Special area management - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2013 Expected:07/2013 10/2013 Michael Mulford870-446-5122mmulford@fs.fed.us Description: Landscape scale project which includes; timber management, reforestation, travel management, recreation access, prescribed burning, and wildlife improvements.
Location: UNIT - Bayou Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Johnson, Pope. North of Broomfield Rd, in the area of Three Knob Mtn., and on the west side of Big Piney Creek north on the east side of Meadows Knob road to Bill Jack Phillips ford.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management Cancelled N/A N/A Jobi Brown479-667-2191jobibrown@fs.fed.us Description: Restoration/maintenence of existing wildlife openings and fields using mechanical and chemical methods. Planting of native grasses and forbs, gating of wildlife opening roads, pond reconstruction. Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Crawford, Franklin, Madison. Wildlife openings on main dvision and Lee Creek as well as Three Rocks, Turners Bend, and Ford Ridge Fields.
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Minerals and Geology - Road management Completed Actual: 10/03/2012 11/2012 Mike Hennigan479-667-2191mhennigan@fs.fed.us Description: Multiple resource project including pine thinning, site prep, pine planting, controlled burning. Wildlife glade habitat restoration, watershed improvement and roads management activities.
Lee Creek Prescribed Burning ProjectCE
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Grazing management - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 07/2013 Expected:12/2013 02/2014 Michael Klick479-667-2191mklick@fs.fed.us Description: Prescribed burns on the Lee Creek Unit of the Boston Mountain Ranger District.
Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Crawford, Washington. LEGAL - multiple townships in the Lee Creek Unit. Lee Creek Unit of Western Arkansas bordering Oklahoma.
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Grazing management - Watershed management - Facility management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2013 Expected:08/2013 10/2013 John Lane479-667-2191johnlane@fs.fed.us Description: Improvements to recreational access to the Mulberry River at multiple locations along the WiId and Scenic Corridor. Also includes Turner Bend Small Game area habitat improvements and improved hunter access including wheelchair accessible areas.
Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Franklin. LEGAL - Multiple sections in T 11N R 28W and T 11N R 27W. Multiple access sites along Wild and Scenic Corridor of the Mulberry River. Between stream miles 18 and 36.
Natural Dam Tornado Salvage ProjectCE
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 02/28/2013 Expected:04/2013 04/2013 Mike Hennigan479-667-2191mhennigan@fs.fed.us Description: Salvage of damaged trees on 250 acres. Incidental removal of undamaged trees (mostly Loblolly). Area damaged by tornado and straightline winds. After removal area would be site prep burned and planted with native shortleaf pine and hardwoods. Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Crawford. LEGAL - section 31 T 12N R 32W; section 6 T 11N R 32W. Lee Creek Unit of Boston Mountain Ranger District northwest of Natural Dam off hwy 59.
Spirits ProjectEA
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Special area management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Special use management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2013 Expected:09/2013 12/2013 Mike Hennigan479-667-2191mhennigan@fs.fed.us Description: Timber and Wildlife habitat improvement proposal including thinning pine stands, regeneration, sanitation thinning and prescribed burning.
Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Franklin. LEGAL - multiple sections in T 12N R 28W, T 12N R 27W, T 11N R 28W, T 11N R 27W, T 11N R26W. Main Unit on Boston Mountain Ranger District in Franklin County.
Turner Thinning ProjectCE
- Forest products Completed Actual: 07/14/2011 07/2011 Mike Hennigan479-667-2191mhennigan@fs.fed.us Description: Thin stands on approximately 7 acres to increase growth and vigor of remaining trees and to improve forest and ecosystem health.
Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Franklin. LEGAL - section 23 T 12N R 27W. One half mile north of Cass.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management - Road management Completed Actual: 08/20/2012 07/2012 Ricky Adair479-667-2191radair@fs.fed.us Description: Relocation of road segment. Existing segment has failed causing part of the road to slide off the ridge into Spirits Creek. The current situation presents a public safety hazard.
White Rock Prescribed Burning ProjectEA
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/11/2013 Expected:04/2013 10/2013 Michael Klick479-667-2191mklick@fs.fed.us Description: Control burn approximately 43,000 acres on main unit. Burns would be divided into smaller units and would be repeated as needed over the course of several years.
Location: UNIT - Boston Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Crawford, Franklin, Madison. LEGAL - multiple townships: T 13N R 28W, T 13N R 27W, T 12N R 29W, T 12N R 28W, T 12N R 27W, T 11N R 29W , T 11N R 28 W, T 11N R 27W. Main Unit of Boston Mountain Ranger District West of Highway 23.
- Grazing management Cancelled N/A N/A Rhea Rylee479-667-2191rsrylee@fs.fed.us Description: Review of current management activities on Wedington range allotments
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) On Hold N/A N/A Vicki Weindel479-963-3076vweindel@fs.fed.us Description: Control of non-native invasive plant species infestations across the Mt. Magazine Ranger District
Prairie ProjectEA
- Land management planning - Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2013 Expected:07/2013 06/2016 Mindi Lawson479-963-3076malawson@fs.fed.us Description: The Mt. Magazine RD is proposing forest health and ecosystem management, silvicultural treatments, road and trail management, and wildlife habitat management on National Forest land in Compartments 1, 14, 55, and 56 in Yell County, AR.
Location: UNIT - Magazine Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Yell. LEGAL - T. 6N, R. 22W, portions of Sections 19, 20, 29, and 30 and T. 6N, R. 23W, portions of Sections 22-27. Compartments 1, 14, 55, 56 Yell County (SE portion of the District.
- Special use management - Facility management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 07/18/2012 Expected:05/2013 07/2013 Tom Cravens479-754-2864tcravens@fs.fed.us Description: Cass Civilian Job Corp Center presently has no water since the drought has dried up the river source. Watalula Water Users Association has facilities about 2 miles away. Hooking up to their water system would solve the Center's water needs.
- Recreation management - Heritage resource management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Minerals and Geology - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2013 Expected:09/2013 10/2014 Matthew Pfeifler479-754-2864mtpfeifler@fs.fed.us Description: Forest health timber harvest of pine & hardwood; wildlife habitat & fishery improvements; road stability; protection of heritage resources; fuel reduction; recreation enhancement; riparian stand improvement; non-native invasive species control.
- Special use management Completed Actual: 01/10/2013 01/2013 Jay Swafford870-269-3228jswafford@fs.fed.us Description: Proposal to authorize extension of the screened porch and increase the rec res cabin size by 20 square feet. The permit would be modified to reflect the change in the cabin's footprint from 1297 square feet to 1415 square feet. Location: UNIT - St. Francis Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Lee. Bear Creek Lake Recreation Residence Tract Lot 14.
- Land management planning - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 06/07/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2013 Expected:05/2013 07/2013 James McCoy270-924-2048jrmccoy@fs.fed.us Description: Vegetation management (harvests, NCT, TSI, reforestation, prescribed burning, mechanical fuel treatments, NNIS treatments & associated actions) to work toward desired future conditions for bottomland & upland ecosystems as outlined in the Forest Plan
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/08/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2013 Expected:05/2013 07/2013 James McCoy870-269-3228jrmccoy@fs.fed.us Description: Restoration of habitat for the endangered Indiana bat through timber harvests, thinning, prescribed fire and associated actions within the primary and secondary conservation zones utilizing an adaptive management approach. Location: UNIT - Sylamore Ranger District. STATE - Arkansas. COUNTY - Baxter, Stone. National Forest Service lands within the secondary conservation zone for the Indiana bat.
- Special use management Completed Actual: 01/09/2013 01/2013 Jay Swafford870-269-3228jswafford@fs.fed.us Description: Proposal to approve requests for recreation event permits where: requested use area is limited to authorized roads, trails and developed recreation areas--excluding roads in Special Interest Areas, Wilderness or that access sensitive resource sites.