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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 10/01/2010 to 12/31/2010 - Nez Perce National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)10/01/2010 to 12/31/2010Nez Perce National Forest This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
Three Rivers Rafting (Martin Smith) permit re-issuanceCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 09/23/2010 10/2010 Debra Gale406-821-1217ddgale@fs.fed.us Description: Re-issuance of a priority outfitter guide permit for a term of 10 years. Location: UNIT - Moose Creek Ranger District, West Fork Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T1N R14E, T2N R13 E, T3N R13E, T4N R13E, T4N R12E, T4N R11E, T4N R10E, T3N R10E, T3N R9E, T3N R8E. The project area is an existing permit area in portions of the Selway - Bitterroot Wilderness on the West Fork RD of the Bitterroot NF and the Moose Creek RD of the Nez Perce National Forest.
- Land ownership management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 12/04/2008Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 10/2010 Expected:07/2011 09/2011 Teresa Trulock208-935-4256ttrulock@fs.fed.us Description: The Forest Service (FS) is considering a land for land exchange with Western Pacific Timber (WPT). The FS would receive approx. 40,000 acres of WPT land in the upper Lochsa River drainage and WPTwould receive approx. 28,000 acres of federal land.
Location: UNIT - Sandpoint Ranger District, Palouse Ranger District, North Fork Ranger District, Red River Ranger District, Powell Ranger District , Clearwater Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Benewah, Bonner, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Shoshone. The lands aquired are in the upper Lochsa River drainage on the border of ID and MT. The federal lands to exchange out of are scattered on the Idaho Panhandle, Clearwater, and Nez Perce NF.
Forest Wide Precommercial ThinCE
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/23/2009 Expected:01/2010Actual: 01/12/2010 06/2011 David Harper208-983-4021dharper@fs.fed.us Description: Precommercial Thinning across the forest for vegetation improvement. Two decisions will be made. The hand felled units decision was completed on 01/19/2010. The plantation burning units decision is planned for 09/2010. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=21989
Location: UNIT - Nez Perce National Forest All Units. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. Forest Wide.
- Recreation management - Special area management - Road management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 05/17/2007Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 10/2010 Expected:05/2011 07/2011 Jennie Fischer208-983-4048jfischer02@fs.fed.us Description: Develop a travel management plan and map to comply with the National Travel Management Rule (OHV). Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/nezperce/projects/index-dramvu.shtml
Mill Creek Bridge #3 ReplacementEA
- Watershed management - Road management Completed Actual: 08/04/2010 11/2010 Suzanne Acton208-983-1950sacton@fs.fed.us Description: The Clearwater Ranger District and the Nez Perce Tribe, in partnership with Bonneville Power Administration, propose to remove the existing bridge and replace it with a new 70-foot long by 16-foot wide concrete bridge.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=32655
Location: UNIT - Clearwater Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T29N R4E Section 34, Boise Meridian, Idaho County, Idaho. Mill Creek Bridge #3 is located on Forest Service Road 309 at mile post 1.9 in the lower Mill Creek watershed.
Mill Creek Stream Restoration ProjectEA
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 07/12/2010 Expected:12/2011 04/2012 Marty Gardner208-476-8219mgardner@fs.fed.us Description: The project will relocate a diverted section of Mill Creek to a better hydrologic configuration, remove some of the slide material to restore floodplain capacity to prevent further erosion. In addition, repair the damaged sections of road 309.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=30706
Location: UNIT - Clearwater Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - The project area is located in section 34 within Townships 29 North, Range 4 East. The project area is approximately 3 acres, and is located within the Mill Creek watershed, a tributary of the South Fork Clearwater River, between Grangeville and Elk City, ID.
Peasley Creek Road ProjectEA
- Watershed management - Road management Completed Actual: 08/20/2010 10/2011 David Harper208-983-4021dharper@fs.fed.us Description: Stabilize fill slope failures along Peasley Creek Road (FS 469), remove the bridge at milepost 0.1, and construct approximately 150 feet of road to reconnect Road 469 to State Highway 14 on the east side of Peasley Creek.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=30368
Location: UNIT - Clearwater Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T29N, R5E, Sections 11, 14, 23, 26, and 29. Clearwater Ranger District.
- Fuels management - Forest products On Hold N/A N/A Barry Ruklic208-983-4032bruklic@fs.fed.us Description: Commercially thin approximately 400-500 acres and reduce fuels to facilitate reintroduction of fire to the landscape. Move the area toward the historic fire regimen and reduce the adverse effects of large stand destroying wildfire.
Lodge Point Commercial ThinEA
- Forest products - Fuels management - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 05/14/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2011 Expected:03/2011 06/2011 Doug Graves208-756-5215dagraves@fs.fed.us Description: Commercially thin between 1,000-1,500 acres of previously managed plantations dating from the 1950�s through the early 1970�s using ground-based equipment.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=32578
Location: UNIT - Moose Creek Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T32N R6E Sections 13-17, 20-30. Lodge Point and Pine Knob area.
O'Hara Prescribed Fire Boundary AmendmentCE
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Completed Actual: 08/02/2010 10/2010 Suzanne Acton208-983-1950sacton@fs.fed.us Description: The Moose Creek Ranger District of the Nez Perce National Forest is proposing to add 1400 acres as a secondary containment area for Units 2 and 4 of the O�Hara Forest Health Project located on the Moose Creek Ranger District.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=33010
Location: UNIT - Moose Creek Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T32N R7E Section 25, and T32N R8E Sections 29, 30, 31, 32, Boise Meridian, Idaho County, Idaho. The project location is in the nortern most portion of the O'Hara Forest Health Project.
Three Links Creek Bridge ReplacementEA
- Recreation management In Progress:Scoping Start 02/10/2006Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 11/2010 Expected:12/2010 05/2011 Michael Ward208-926-6413michaelward@fs.fed.us Description: Replace the bridge over Three Links Creek, Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=6392
Location: UNIT - Moose Creek Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - Three Links Creek Bridge: SE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 22, T32N, R11E. Moose Creek Ranger District - Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Trail #4.
West Fork Point ProjectCE
- Fuels management - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Forest products On Hold N/A N/A Katherine Thompson208-983-1950kthompson@fs.fed.us Description: 180 acres of Salvage in beetle infested lodgepole pine and thin from below for stand improvment on 70 acres of Douglas Fir.
Location: UNIT - Moose Creek Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T31N R8E Sections 33, 28, 27, 22, 23. Moose Creek Ranger District - West Fork Point Area.
EMC #1 Placer MiningEA
- Minerals and Geology On Hold N/A N/A Martin Jones208-842-2103martinjones@fs.fed.us Description: Claimant proposed gold placer mining operations
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T029N R007E Section 05. Newsome Creek.
Jubilee MiningEA
- Minerals and Geology On Hold N/A N/A Martin Jones208-842-2103martinjones@fs.fed.us Description: The Nez Perce National Forest, Red River Ranger District is preparing an environmental assessment for a small placer mining project in the Crooked Creek drainage, a tributary of the Salmon River. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/nezperce/projects/
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - The project lies within Section 15 of T26N, R8E, Boise Meridian. Jubilee Mining.
Leggett Commercial Thinning CE
- Fuels management - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Forest products - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants On Hold N/A N/A Gene Delimata208-842-2100gdelimata@fs.fed.us Description: Thin trees, followed by prescribed fire in an artificially regenerated forest (1964)stand. Up to 70 acres of the stand would be thinned to a residual density of 100 to 120 trees per acre followed by prescribed fire on 135 acres
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - is T29N, R7E, section 19, SW ? (BM). 10 air miles west of Elk City (Idaho County), Idaho, along forest road FR 469 in the Leggett Creek watershed.
Orogrande WUI FuelsEA
- Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2011 Expected:04/2012 07/2012 Rachel Young208-983-4025rlyoung@fs.fed.us Description: Fuels/Vegetation Management> Mechanical Fuels treatment and Prescribed burning
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T27N, R 7E. Sections 1, 2, 11, 12. Red River RD, Nez Perce NF, Near the town of Orogrande.
Sourdough Access ProjectEA
- Watershed management - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/01/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 11/2010 Expected:12/2010 02/2011 David Harper208-983-4021dharper@fs.fed.us Description: Sourdough access via FS Roads 1875, 9824, 9829, and 492 would be provided. The bridge located at the 10 mile Creek crossing of Forest Service Road 492 would also be removed and the road to the west would be decommissioned for about 1.8 miles.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=31676
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - The project area is located within Township 28 North, Ranges 5 and 6 East. Ten Mile, Rainy Day, and Twenty Mile watersheds.
South TownshipEA
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 08/03/2010 Expected:12/2010 03/2011 Justin Pappani208-842-2124jpappani@fs.fed.us Description: Mechanical fuels treatment and prescribed burning.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=22086
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T28N R8E sec 1, 2, 3. Southern part of Elk City Township.
Three Prong Trail ReconstructionCE
- Recreation management In Progress:Scoping Start 01/09/2007 Expected:12/2010 05/2011 Randy Borniger208-842-2110rborniger@fs.fed.us Description: Three Prong Trail 539 is part of the Idaho Centennial Trail and is open to non-motorized use. Reconstruction will include: installation of waterbars, tread reconstruction, brushing and limbing, siging and a short relocation
Location: UNIT - Red River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T27 R12E NESE 1/4 section 5 T28 R12E NWNW 1/4 section 13. Project is located on the Red River Ranger District, Nez Perce NF.
Allison-Berg AllotmentEIS
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Grazing management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 05/01/2009Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 12/2010 Expected:03/2011 06/2011 Joanne Bonn208-839-2138jmbonn@fs.fed.us Description: This EIS will be used to support a determination whether continued grazing by domestic sheep should be allowed or not, and if so, under what conditions. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=30376
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - The Allison-Berg allotment is located approximately 3 miles east of Riggins, Idaho in the Allison, Berg, and Kelly Creek drainages on the north side of the Salmon River. T24N, R2E, R3E. Salmon River Ranger District.
Christie-Sherwin AMP ProjectEA
- Grazing management - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 08/29/2008Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 11/2010 Expected:12/2010 02/2011 Jennie Fischer208-983-4048jfischer02@fs.fed.us Description: Re-authorized use on grazing allotments and improve forage
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=19906
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T27N, R1W, Sections 1,2, 11-13, 18-20, 28-30, 31-33; T 26N, R1E, Sections 4-9, 16-18;. Salmon River Ranger District, Nez Perce National Forest. 17 miles northwest of Riggins, Idaho. Idaho, County.
Florence Cemetery Dead and Dying Tree Removal CE
- Heritage resource management Completed Actual: 08/06/2010 11/2010 Suzanne Acton208-983-1950sacton@fs.fed.us Description: The Salmon River Ranger District proposes falling dead and dying lodgepole pine on approximately four acres within the Florence Cemetery developed recreation site.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=33296
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - The project is located on the Salmon River Ranger District of the Nez Perce National Forest at T25N R3E, Section 13, Boise Meridian. The Florence Cemetery Dead and Dying Tree Removal project is located in Idaho County, approximately 29 air miles south of Grangeville, Idaho.
- Minerals and Geology On Hold N/A N/A Martin Jones208-842-2103martinjones@fs.fed.us Description: Mining claimant proposes to use a small tractor with auger to drill 20 holes in non-wetland sites along Healy Creek. Small samples will be tested for gold content.
Little Slate ProjectEIS
- Forest products - Fuels management - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 06/28/2007Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 12/2010 Expected:06/2011 09/2011 Jennie Fischer208-983-4048jfischer02@fs.fed.us Description: The proposed project has multiple objectives including improve watershed health and restore vegetation conditions.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=16899
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T26N, R2E, Sec. 25, 35, 36; T26N, R3E, Sec. 21-36; T26N, R4E, Sec. 6-8, 16-22, 27-33; and T25N, R2E, Sec., 1-2, 11-12; T25N. R3E Sec. 1-18, 20-23, 28-32. The project area includes the Upper Little Slate Creek watersheds, tributary to Slate Creek and the Lower Salmon River. Approximately 14 miles northeast of Riggins, Idaho.
Nut Basin Whitebark Pine ProjectCE
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) On Hold N/A N/A David Harper208-983-4021dharper@fs.fed.us Description: This project would restore and improve conditions for whitebark pine by slashing and using prescribed fire to achieve a desired age class and landscape pattern. Release immature whitebark pine and encouraging natural regeneration around mature trees.
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - Township 1 North, Range 2 East, Sections 25, 35 and 36. The project is located approximately 10 miles northeast of Riggins, Idaho. Idaho County.
Pine Thinning ProjectCE
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) On Hold N/A N/A Megan Moynihan208-839-2211mmoynihan@fs.fed.us Description: Thin Pine for vegetation improvement
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. Salmon River Ranger District.
Slate Point Mineral Project 1CE
- Minerals and Geology On Hold N/A N/A Martin Jones208-842-2103martinjones@fs.fed.us Description: Exploration of minerals within the River of No Return Group of claims including collection of bulk samples of limestone for the purpose of further development of market research to ascertain the value of such product in the public marketplace.
Location: UNIT - Salmon River Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - T26N, R3E. Section 15. Salmon River Ranger District within the River of No Return Group of claims.