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(WY) Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland...

Ed A. Stevens

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Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland...


http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-14672.htm
[Federal Register: June 11, 2003 (Volume 68, Number
112)]
[Notices]
[Page 34902-34903]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr11jn03-42]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin
National Grassland Carbon County, WY,
Blackhall-McAnulty Timber Sale, Prescribed
Burn and Travel Management

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: The Forest Service will prepare and
Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the
environmental effects of a
site-specific proposal to reduce the spread of dwarf
mistletoe and
mountain pine beetle in area lodgepole pine stands,
increase patch size
of forested areas that have had past harvest, improve
resiliency and
reduce susceptibility to future disease and insect
attack, salvage fire
damaged trees, and promote and maintain area aspen and
ponderosa pine
stands within the Blackhall-McAnulty Analysis Area of
the Brush Creek/
Hayden Ranger District of the Medicine Bow-Routt
National Forests
within Carbon County, Wyoming, using a combination of
clearcutting and
partial harvest treatments.
The proposal also includes: prescribed fire to
improve forage for
big game and livestock, boundary treatments to reduce
hazardous fuels
on National Forest adjacent to private land, watershed
restoration
projects, improvement of the Big Creek Trailhead, and
travel management
within this portion of the Sierra Madre Range.

DATES: The draft environmental impact statement is
expected to be filed
with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and
available for public
review during August 2003. At that time, the EPA will
publish a Notice
of Availability (NOA) of the draft EIA in the Federal
Register. The
comment period on the draft EIS will be for a period
of not less than
45 days from the date the EPA publishes the NOA in the
Federal
Register. It is important that those interested in the
management of
this area comment at that time.
The final EIS is expected to be available in
November 2003. In the
final EIS, the Forest Service will respond to any
comments received
during the public comment period that pertain to the
environmental
analysis. Those comments and the Forest Service
responses will be
disclosed and discussed in the final EIS and will be
considered when
the final decision about this proposal is made.
 
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