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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 01/01/2012 to 03/31/2012 - Caribou-Targhee National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)01/01/2012 to 03/31/2012Caribou-Targhee 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:NOI in Federal Register 08/20/2008Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 01/2012 Expected:12/2012 03/2013 Patty Bates406-683-3979pbates@fs.fed.us Description: Issue easement to Northwestern Energy to construct and maintain a 500 KV electricity transmission line on National Forest System lands in Montana and Idaho. BLM is lead agency and Forest Service is cooperating agency.
- Grazing management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 10/22/2010 Expected:02/2012 06/2012 Kevin Parker208-678-0430kparker@fs.fed.us Description: Re-authorize sheep grazing on the Wells Canyon, Stewart Canyon, and Green Mountain sheep allotments
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 02/25/2011 Expected:03/2012 08/2012 Lee Mabey208-557-5784lmabey@fs.fed.us Description: Restore this spring creek a tributary to the Henrys Fork by placing native sedge mats within the stream creating new banks narrowing the channel, increasing velocities and sediment transport to improve trout spawning, rearing and overwintering. Location: UNIT - Ashton/Island Park. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Fremont. LEGAL - The stream that feeds into and flows out of the Fish Pond on Harriman State Park. T. 11N., R. 43E. Sections 6.
- Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 07/08/2011 Expected:05/2012 07/2012 Robert Albano208-558-7301ralbano@fs.fed.us Description: Masticate dead and down fuels and remove ladder fuels along the south side of the Green Canyon Road (FS Road # 167) for approx. 4 miles. The area would be 200 feet from the borrow pit.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 02/25/2011 Expected:03/2012 07/2012 Lee Mabey208-557-5784lmabey@fs.fed.us Description: Road is one mile long, project to shift � mile of road out of bottom to promote better drainage and less sediment delivery to the Buffalo River, the native surfaced road will be graveled. The abandoned road will be water barred and seeded. Location: UNIT - Ashton/Island Park. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Fremont. LEGAL - The access road to float the Buffalo River starting at the springhead. T. 13N., R. 44E. Sections 21 and 28.
- Grazing management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2012 Expected:05/2012 06/2012 Jim Cox208-558-7301jcox@fs.fed.us Description: Improve forage for Forest livestock.
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 12/2011 Expected:04/2012 05/2012 Bill Davis208-652-1228bdavis@fs.fed.us Description: Fremont County is seeking to expand the Macks Inn Sewer Treatment Facility by increasing the irrigation field (not the leach field) by approximately 50 acres to handle increased needs in the North Island Park area.
- Grazing management - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/29/2011Est. Objection Period Legal Notice 06/2012 Expected:07/2012 07/2013 Ben Krupski208-558-7301bkrupski@fs.fed.us Description: Removal of conifers from the Porcupine Guard Station Pasture to rejuvenate grasses and forbs.
Corral Creek Dam Rehabilitation and Fish PassageCE
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 12/19/2011 Expected:04/2012 07/2012 Shane Jacobson208-374-5422sqjacobson@fs.fed.us Description: Improve the spillway of the Corral Creek dam to facilitate natural stream function, improve stabilization of the dam, and to provide for fish passage. Includes maintaining a pond in place of the reservoir to maintain public fishing opportunities.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37886
Location: UNIT - Dubois Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Clark. LEGAL - T12N, R37E, Section 12. 8 miles east of Spencer, Idaho.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 11/23/2011 Expected:04/2012 06/2012 Cathey Hardin208-558-4207chardin@fs.fed.us Description: Cut, pull back and pile slash from conifers that is located within a 50 to 100 foot radius of mature, cone producing whitebark pine trees. This will reduce the competition and create a fuel break. Slash would be piled and possibly burned. Location: UNIT - Dubois Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Clark. LEGAL - Boatman: T14N, R37E, Sections 17-22, 27 and 28. Lone Pine: T13N, R37E, Sections 21-28, and T13N, R38E, Sections 19, 20, 29 ,30. Table Mountain: T14N, R37E, Sections 13 and T14N, R38E, Sections 15-22,. There are three different area identified for treatment on the Dubois Ranger District; Boatman, Lone Pine and Table Mountain.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Road management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:07/2012 09/2012 Dennis Duehren208-847-0375dduehren@fs.fed.us Description: Treat 3900 acres of hazardous fuels 300 feet off of open forest roads. Smaller diameter conifer and dead and down fuels will be cut, piled and burned to reduce hazardous fuels. Location: UNIT - Montpelier Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin. LEGAL - The project is located in T9S to T16S, R40E to R43E, and all sections. All open forest roads on the Cache Forest that is administered by the Caribou National Forest.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 05/31/2007 Expected:06/2012Actual: 11/21/2008 08/2012 Devon Green208-547-1116dhgreen@fs.fed.us Description: Use prescribed fire to restore aspen, by killing invading conifer on approximately 500 acres, and increase shrub diversity on approximately 150 acres to improve wildlife habitat in an 800 acre project area. Location: UNIT - Montpelier Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Caribou. LEGAL - T10S, R46E, Sec 29-32. Boise Meridian. Ridge between Ephraim Valley and Elk Valley within the Gannett Hills between Crow Creek and the Wyoming State line.
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:01/2013 06/2013 Jane Rushane208-847-0375jrushane@fs.fed.us Description: Use prescribed fire and timber harvest to change species composition and structure on 3600 acres in several different vegetation cover types in the Main Canyon area. Location: UNIT - Montpelier Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Franklin. LEGAL - Township 12 S, Range 41 E Sections 1, 2, 3, 10-15, 22 and 28. Approximately 13 mile south of Grace, Idaho. Access is via Forest roads 440 and 442.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 10/23/2009 Expected:05/2012 09/2012 Dennis Duehren208-847-0375dduehren@fs.fed.us Description: Use prescribed fire and mechanical thinning to reduce conifer encroachment in aspen forest (1400 acres), to improving wildlife habitat and reducing fuel loading in the 2600 acre project area. Location: UNIT - Montpelier Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Franklin. LEGAL - T12S, R42E, Sec 30-31, T12S,R41E, Sec 36, T13S, R42E, Sec 6 and T13S, R41E, Sec 1,6,7,12 Boise Meridian. Southwest of Montpelier, ID on Hwy. 30 in Emigration Canyon.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 06/21/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 05/2012 Expected:06/2012 09/2012 Dennis Duehren208-847-0375dduehren@fs.fed.us Description: Reduce understory tree and brush densisites to change stand age, composition and structure to mimic historic fire regimes and improve wildlife habitat. Masticator would be used and slash piled/burned. No commercial harvest or road construction.
Calamity Road RelocationEA
- Recreation management - Road management Completed Actual: 12/19/2011 05/2012 Robert Mickelsen208-542-5803rmickelsen@fs.fed.us Description: Relocate 0.5 miles of road to provide a safer access to the Calamity Campground and Boatramp
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37485
Location: UNIT - Palisades Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Bonneville. LEGAL - Sections 7, 8, and 12, T 1 S, R 45 E. Approximately 55 miles souteast of Idaho Falls, ID on the west end of Palisades Dam.
- Recreation management Completed Actual: 12/09/2011 06/2012 Robert Mickelsen208-523-1412rmickelsen@fs.fed.us Description: Develop a clear plan for mix of trails designed and managed specifically for ATVs, motorcycles, mountain bikes and non-motorized uses. Create a trail network that is safe, environmentally sound, affordable to maintain and responsive to public need.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=23264
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 08/11/2011 Expected:05/2012 07/2012 Spencer Johnston208-523-1412sdjohnston@fs.fed.us Description: Use prescribed fire to treat 1533 acres to improve the declining aspen population and decadent brush species to create a diversity of age classes for wildlife and critical summer range for big game species as well as for public safety. Location: UNIT - Palisades Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Bonneville. Unit- Palisades Ranger District. State- Idaho. County-Bonneville. Legal- Township 1N, Range 44E, Sections 19, 20, 28-30. The project area is located 5 miles south of Swan Valley, Idaho.
- Recreation management - Fuels management - Facility management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/30/2010Est. Objection Period Legal Notice 06/2012 Expected:07/2012 09/2012 Randy Griffith208-542-5812rsgriffith@fs.fed.us Description: Remove lodgepole pine trees infested with Mountain Pine Beetles in the area around Hoffman Summer Home and McCoy Creek Campgrounds, which are dead, dying, and hazard trees.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:01/2012 09/2012 Jack Isaacs208-547-4356jisaacs@fs.fed.us Description: Relocate 0.6 mile of FR50297, Caribou Archery Road, farther away from a perennial tributary to Trail Creek. Construct parking for 20-30 vehicles at end of new road. Decommission old road.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36404
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 04/13/2010Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 04/2013 Expected:04/2014 09/2014 Jack Isaacs208-547-4356jisaacs@fs.fed.us Description: Analyze a proposed new phosphate mine plan and associated projects and infrastructure on existing lease I-28115 and I-0258, encompassing approximately 1,500 acres on lease and approximately 400 acres off lease. Considers land exchange proposal.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 12/2012 Expected:06/2013 09/2013 Garth Nelson208-547-1113glnelson@fs.fed.us Description: The Soda/Montpelier zone of the Caibou-Targhee proposes to burn mountain brush, small stands of conifer and aspen in the Homestead unit of the Jackknife cattle allotments. Burn is expected to improve big game species and age diversity.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36309
- Special use management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 07/08/2010Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 08/2012 Expected:01/2013 06/2013 Glenn Lackey208-677-8303glackey@fs.fed.us Description: Build a new 20 mile double circuit 115-KV powerline from Soda Springs to the existing powerline in Lanes Creek. The new line will cross about 2 miles of the Forest. Alternate route that avoids all National Forest System lands is being considered.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. NOI in Federal Register 06/2012 Expected:11/2016 12/2016 Jack Isaacs208-547-4356jisaacs@fs.fed.us Description: Nu-West Industries, Inc., submitted a Mine and Reclamation Plan (MRP) which proposes new open-pit phosphate mining operations on federal leases I-05549, I-8289, I-04 and some adjacent private lands. It also proposes lease mods. and several S.U.A.s.
Rasmussen Valley Geotechnical DrillingCE
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:03/2012 03/2012 Jack Isaacs208-547-4356jisaacs@fs.fed.us Description: Nu-West Industries, Inc., submitted a Geotechnical Study Plan which proposes to install several shallow geotechnical borings including piezometers on National Forest land adjacent to Federal Leases I-05975 in support of the Rasmussen Valley Mine EIS.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37873
Location: UNIT - Soda Springs Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Caribou. LEGAL - T. 7 S., R. 44 E., Sections: 5 & 6 Caribou County, ID. Proposed drilling would be located in Caribou County, Idaho; approximately 18 miles Northeast of Soda Springs, ID.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. NOI in Federal Register 03/2012 Expected:10/2014 11/2014 Jack Isaacs208-547-4356jisaacs@fs.fed.us Description: Nu-West Industries, Inc., submitted a Mine and Reclamation Plan (MRP) which proposes new open-pit phophate mining operations on federal leases I-05975, and some adjacent private lands. It also proposes lease modification and several Special Use Auth
- Facility management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:03/2012 08/2012 Glenn Lackey208-547-1105glackey@fs.fed.us Description: Proposal to place a 100+ foot electornic communications tower with building to house equipment.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36989
- Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 03/21/2008 Expected:11/2012 09/2013 Rebecca Phelps208-547-1118roophelps@fs.fed.us Description: Treat a total of 3,000 acres of aspen and sub-alpine with prescribed fire to promote aspen regeneration. Some mechanical treatments may be used to construct fire lines.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=23217
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/17/2008 Expected:03/2012 07/2012 Mike Alfieri208-558-7301malfieri@fs.fed.us Description: Proposing to non-commercially thin dense lodgepole pine stands while emphasizing aspen species composition on approximately 1,400 acres. Location: UNIT - Teton Basin Ranger District. STATE - Idaho, Wyoming. COUNTY - Teton, Teton. LEGAL - T7N R45E, Sections 10, 11, 14, 15, 23-26, and 36. T7N, R46E, Sections 30-32 (State of Idaho). T45N, R118W, Sections 8, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 33, 34, and 35 and T45N, R118W, Sec 3 (State of Wyoming). Western front of the Teton Range within the Badger, Leigh and Teton Watersheds, in Teton County, Idaho and Teton County, Wyoming.
- Recreation management - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants In Progress:Scoping Start 03/14/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2012 Expected:02/2012 07/2012 Lee Mabey208-557-5784lmabey@fs.fed.us Description: Relocate trailhead .25 miles west to a location away from Darby Creek to protect water quality, fisheries and reduce trailhead congestion. Rehabilitate the road beyond new trailhead and convert to a nonmotorized trail. Replace main trail bridge.
- Recreation management - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/14/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2012 Expected:02/2012 06/2012 Kurt Kluegel208-354-6615kkluegel@fs.fed.us Description: Manage the user-created Papoose and Sheep Bridge Trails as system, nonmotorized trails. Repair the Sheep Bridge and construct a new trail bridge near Reunion Flat Campground. Rehab and close dispersed camping areas near the Sheep Bridge.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:02/2012 08/2012 Dave Ovard208-354-6616dovard@fs.fed.us Description: Remove seral conifer from healthy aspen clumps to enhance and regenerate aspen on approximately 50 acres. Confier <5 inches in diameter would be cut while the larger confier would be ringed, or girdled, to kill the tree.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 02/16/2011 Expected:03/2012 08/2012 Brad Higginson208-557-5786bhigginson@fs.fed.us Description: The proposed action is to restore approximately 1,000 feet of Mink Creek in the Bannock Guard Station (GS) area, upsize the bridge on the Guard Station access road, modify the culvert bone-yard, and stabilize streambanks at the Mink Creek Group Site.
Bird Canyon Fuels Reduction ProjectCE
- Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012 Expected:12/2012 05/2013 Greg Burch208-236-7540ajorgensen@fs.fed.us Description: To modify and improve vegetation conditions to increase the probability of success for managing wildfires adjacent to private homes and improvements. Therefore, we will create strategic fuel breaks and promote aspen, to limit fire spread. Location: UNIT - Westside Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Bannock. LEGAL - T9S R38E, Sections:5-8; T8S R38E, Sections:29-32; T8S R37E Sections: 24-26. Approximately 4 miles north of Lava Hot Springs, ID.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Fuels management Completed Actual: 11/14/2011 12/2011 Arik Jorgensen208-236-7540ajorgensen@fs.fed.us Description: Create strategic fuel breaks to protect mature/developing sagebrush/grass communities from wildfire by mowing and/or masticating roadside and fence line vegetation to reduce fuel loads and protect sage grouse habitat. Location: UNIT - Westside Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Oneida. LEGAL - Portions of T13-16 and R31-33. The Curlew National Grassland is approximately 20 miles west of Malad, ID and surrounds the community of Holbrook, ID Hwy 37 and the Arbon Valley Highway.
- Recreation management Completed Actual: 11/14/2011 05/2012 Debrah Tiller208-557-5779dtiller@fs.fed.us Description: Build 5 miles of new non-motorized single-track trail to connect the City Creek non-motorized trail system to the Gibson Jack non-motorized trail. Project includes expanding Gibson-Jack Trailhead parking lot.
- Recreation management - Special use management Completed Actual: 11/14/2011 12/2011 Greg Burch208-236-7513goburch@fs.fed.us Description: Remove ~15 trees <14dbh on the Outback trail to allow grooming. Create a bench between Outback and Maxout for snowcat traverse. Re-contour the existing terrain park for beginner ski use. Create a new terrain park above and right of lodge.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management On Hold N/A N/A Arik Jorgensen208-236-7540ajorgensen@fs.fed.us Description: Use prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations, regenerate brush communities, increase the amount of young aspen and reduce conifer encroachment across the project area. No road construction or reconstruction will be necessary.