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Projects & Plans
Schedule of Proposed Actions
The Forest publishes a Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) four times a year: January, April, July and October. To view the current and past SOPAs, visit the Forest Service SOPA page for the Idaho Panhandle National Forests.
Environmental Appeal Responses
An Environmental Appeal is a formal request to an agency higher authority for review of an environmental planning (NEPA) decision. The public's rights to file an appeal are defined in specific appeal regulations. Usually, all administrative processes must be exhausted before a person can bring a court action (litigation) against with a NEPA decision. This usually includes the filing of a formal appeal. The following links provide access to recent and historical appeal decisions related to the Idaho Panhandle National Forests:
Pre-Decisional Objection Responses
Objections are written documents submitted by an individual or organization seeking a pre-decisional administrative review of a proposed hazardous fuel reduction project authorized by the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA). The public may file objections after an environmental assessment or final environmental impact statement is completed and before a decision document is signed for a project under HFRA. The following link provides access to objection responses related to the Idaho Panhandle National Forests:
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Forest Projects
Projects
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
Central Zone 2012/2013 Pre-commercial Thinning and Pruning Project
(CE)
Pre-commercially thin and/or prune approximately 2,400 acres of young trees that have been planted or re-established naturally on previously harvested sites.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Fern Hardy HFRA Project
(EA)
Focus on fuels reduction and stand improvement in and around the Wildland Urban Interface, with possible watershed restoration or wildlife habitat improvement activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Green Slate
(CE)
70 acres of commercial thin to improve the health and vigor of the timber stand and to provide timber products. The project would maintain western larch and western white pine by reducing competition from grand fir, douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine. Mountain pine beetle activity is present in the lodgepole pine.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Idaho Panhandle and Kootenai National Forest, Forest Plan Revision
(EIS)
Forest Plan Revision
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Idaho Panhandle National Forest All Units
Purpose: Land management planning
Lakeview-Reeder HFRA Project
(EIS)
The goals of the project are to reduce hazardous forest fuels within the project area, to decrease the risk of a wildfire negatively impacting communities, and to improve forest health and reduce the threats from stand replacing wildfires and insect and disease infestations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Leonia
(EA)
Vegetation and fire regime restoration
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Lower Priest
(EA)
Vegetation and fuels management.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Moose Drool
(EA)
Watershed Restoration project aimed to improve water quality and stream habitat across 21,600 acres in the upper Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Watershed improvement activities include road, riparian area, and in-stream activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
North Zone Juvenile Tree Thinning and White Pine Pruning
(CE)
Thin and/or prune approximately 5,200 acres of juvenile sapling sized stands that were established through planting and natural reforestation means on the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake and Sandpoint Ranger Districts.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Priest Lake Cattle & Horse Allotment Management Plans Project
(EA)
Livestock grazing
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Red Beauty HFRA Project
(EA)
Forest stand management, fuel reduction, road construction, road reconstruction and road decommissioning.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Schweitzer Fuels Reduction
(CE)
Fuels treatment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Selkirk Mountain Range Winter Travel Plan
(EIS)
The winter travel plan will better integrate the social and economic aspects of winter recreation uses with the needs of wildlife and other natural resources in the Selkirk Mountain Range.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
St. Joe 2012 Timber Stand Improvement Project
(CE)
Approximately 6,500 acres of precommercial thinning with white pine pruning in some areas to be completed in the next five to ten years. Only hand-held tools would be used.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
St. Joe Travel Management Plan
(EA)
The St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is proposing to designate roads and trails for public motorized use by type of vehicle and time of year. Please visit our general information page for details about this project.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Recreation management
Twenty Mile Creek
(EA)
Reduce the risk of sediment entering the drinking water through road improvements, road decommissioning, vegetation and fuels management, and to improve grizzly bear habitat.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Windy Larch
(CE)
Commercial thin approx. 70 acres using skyline and tractor logging systems
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Under Analysis
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Schweitzer Fuels Reduction
(CE)
Fuels treatment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Idaho Panhandle and Kootenai National Forest, Forest Plan Revision
(EIS)
Forest Plan Revision
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Idaho Panhandle National Forest All Units
Purpose: Land management planning
Windy Larch
(CE)
Commercial thin approx. 70 acres using skyline and tractor logging systems
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Central Zone 2012/2013 Pre-commercial Thinning and Pruning Project
(CE)
Pre-commercially thin and/or prune approximately 2,400 acres of young trees that have been planted or re-established naturally on previously harvested sites.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Twenty Mile Creek
(EA)
Reduce the risk of sediment entering the drinking water through road improvements, road decommissioning, vegetation and fuels management, and to improve grizzly bear habitat.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Lower Priest
(EA)
Vegetation and fuels management.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
St. Joe Travel Management Plan
(EA)
The St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is proposing to designate roads and trails for public motorized use by type of vehicle and time of year. Please visit our general information page for details about this project.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Recreation management
Red Beauty HFRA Project
(EA)
Forest stand management, fuel reduction, road construction, road reconstruction and road decommissioning.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Analysis Completed
Moose Drool
(EA)
Watershed Restoration project aimed to improve water quality and stream habitat across 21,600 acres in the upper Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Watershed improvement activities include road, riparian area, and in-stream activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Lakeview-Reeder HFRA Project
(EIS)
The goals of the project are to reduce hazardous forest fuels within the project area, to decrease the risk of a wildfire negatively impacting communities, and to improve forest health and reduce the threats from stand replacing wildfires and insect and disease infestations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
St. Joe 2012 Timber Stand Improvement Project
(CE)
Approximately 6,500 acres of precommercial thinning with white pine pruning in some areas to be completed in the next five to ten years. Only hand-held tools would be used.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Priest Lake Cattle & Horse Allotment Management Plans Project
(EA)
Livestock grazing
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Leonia
(EA)
Vegetation and fire regime restoration
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Green Slate
(CE)
70 acres of commercial thin to improve the health and vigor of the timber stand and to provide timber products. The project would maintain western larch and western white pine by reducing competition from grand fir, douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine. Mountain pine beetle activity is present in the lodgepole pine.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
North Zone Juvenile Tree Thinning and White Pine Pruning
(CE)
Thin and/or prune approximately 5,200 acres of juvenile sapling sized stands that were established through planting and natural reforestation means on the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake and Sandpoint Ranger Districts.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Fern Hardy HFRA Project
(EA)
Focus on fuels reduction and stand improvement in and around the Wildland Urban Interface, with possible watershed restoration or wildlife habitat improvement activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
On Hold
Selkirk Mountain Range Winter Travel Plan
(EIS)
The winter travel plan will better integrate the social and economic aspects of winter recreation uses with the needs of wildlife and other natural resources in the Selkirk Mountain Range.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Note: Projects with multiple Project Purposes will appear multiple times.
Forest products
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Leonia
(EA)
Vegetation and fire regime restoration
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Windy Larch
(CE)
Commercial thin approx. 70 acres using skyline and tractor logging systems
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Green Slate
(CE)
70 acres of commercial thin to improve the health and vigor of the timber stand and to provide timber products. The project would maintain western larch and western white pine by reducing competition from grand fir, douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine. Mountain pine beetle activity is present in the lodgepole pine.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Lower Priest
(EA)
Vegetation and fuels management.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Fuels management
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Lakeview-Reeder HFRA Project
(EIS)
The goals of the project are to reduce hazardous forest fuels within the project area, to decrease the risk of a wildfire negatively impacting communities, and to improve forest health and reduce the threats from stand replacing wildfires and insect and disease infestations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Schweitzer Fuels Reduction
(CE)
Fuels treatment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Red Beauty HFRA Project
(EA)
Forest stand management, fuel reduction, road construction, road reconstruction and road decommissioning.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Fern Hardy HFRA Project
(EA)
Focus on fuels reduction and stand improvement in and around the Wildland Urban Interface, with possible watershed restoration or wildlife habitat improvement activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Grazing management
Land management planning
Recreation management
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
Selkirk Mountain Range Winter Travel Plan
(EIS)
The winter travel plan will better integrate the social and economic aspects of winter recreation uses with the needs of wildlife and other natural resources in the Selkirk Mountain Range.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
St. Joe Travel Management Plan
(EA)
The St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is proposing to designate roads and trails for public motorized use by type of vehicle and time of year. Please visit our general information page for details about this project.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Recreation management
Road management
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
St. Joe Travel Management Plan
(EA)
The St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is proposing to designate roads and trails for public motorized use by type of vehicle and time of year. Please visit our general information page for details about this project.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Recreation management
Vegetation management (other than forest products)
St. Joe 2012 Timber Stand Improvement Project
(CE)
Approximately 6,500 acres of precommercial thinning with white pine pruning in some areas to be completed in the next five to ten years. Only hand-held tools would be used.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Windy Larch
(CE)
Commercial thin approx. 70 acres using skyline and tractor logging systems
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Central Zone 2012/2013 Pre-commercial Thinning and Pruning Project
(CE)
Pre-commercially thin and/or prune approximately 2,400 acres of young trees that have been planted or re-established naturally on previously harvested sites.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Twenty Mile Creek
(EA)
Reduce the risk of sediment entering the drinking water through road improvements, road decommissioning, vegetation and fuels management, and to improve grizzly bear habitat.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
North Zone Juvenile Tree Thinning and White Pine Pruning
(CE)
Thin and/or prune approximately 5,200 acres of juvenile sapling sized stands that were established through planting and natural reforestation means on the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake and Sandpoint Ranger Districts.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Red Beauty HFRA Project
(EA)
Forest stand management, fuel reduction, road construction, road reconstruction and road decommissioning.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Fern Hardy HFRA Project
(EA)
Focus on fuels reduction and stand improvement in and around the Wildland Urban Interface, with possible watershed restoration or wildlife habitat improvement activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Watershed management
Moose Drool
(EA)
Watershed Restoration project aimed to improve water quality and stream habitat across 21,600 acres in the upper Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Watershed improvement activities include road, riparian area, and in-stream activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Moose Drool
(EA)
Watershed Restoration project aimed to improve water quality and stream habitat across 21,600 acres in the upper Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Watershed improvement activities include road, riparian area, and in-stream activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Idaho Panhandle National Forest All Units
Avery Ranger District
St. Joe 2012 Timber Stand Improvement Project
(CE)
Approximately 6,500 acres of precommercial thinning with white pine pruning in some areas to be completed in the next five to ten years. Only hand-held tools would be used.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Green Slate
(CE)
70 acres of commercial thin to improve the health and vigor of the timber stand and to provide timber products. The project would maintain western larch and western white pine by reducing competition from grand fir, douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine. Mountain pine beetle activity is present in the lodgepole pine.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
St. Joe Travel Management Plan
(EA)
The St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is proposing to designate roads and trails for public motorized use by type of vehicle and time of year. Please visit our general information page for details about this project.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Avery Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Recreation management
Bonners Ferry Ranger District
North Zone Roadside Salvage
(EA)
Provide community and economic stability and wood products by salvaging dead standing and down timber from alongside roads. Road maintenance consisting of spot gravel placement, removing vegetation from cut/fill slopes, and improve public safety.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Forest products, Fuels management
Leonia
(EA)
Vegetation and fire regime restoration
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Twenty Mile Creek
(EA)
Reduce the risk of sediment entering the drinking water through road improvements, road decommissioning, vegetation and fuels management, and to improve grizzly bear habitat.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
East Fork Meadow Creek
(EA)
Reduce the hazardous fuels and the risk of high severity fires; create a comprehensive road system that provides access to the area for vegetation management and fire suppression needs; maintain and improve aquatic habitat and watershed health.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bonners Ferry Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Road management
Fernan Ranger District
Moose Drool
(EA)
Watershed Restoration project aimed to improve water quality and stream habitat across 21,600 acres in the upper Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Watershed improvement activities include road, riparian area, and in-stream activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Central Zone 2012/2013 Pre-commercial Thinning and Pruning Project
(CE)
Pre-commercially thin and/or prune approximately 2,400 acres of young trees that have been planted or re-established naturally on previously harvested sites.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Red Beauty HFRA Project
(EA)
Forest stand management, fuel reduction, road construction, road reconstruction and road decommissioning.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Fern Hardy HFRA Project
(EA)
Focus on fuels reduction and stand improvement in and around the Wildland Urban Interface, with possible watershed restoration or wildlife habitat improvement activities.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Fernan Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Priest Lake Ranger District
Lakeview-Reeder HFRA Project
(EIS)
The goals of the project are to reduce hazardous forest fuels within the project area, to decrease the risk of a wildfire negatively impacting communities, and to improve forest health and reduce the threats from stand replacing wildfires and insect and disease infestations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Priest Lake Cattle & Horse Allotment Management Plans Project
(EA)
Livestock grazing
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Lower Priest
(EA)
Vegetation and fuels management.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Priest Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products
Sandpoint Ranger District
Schweitzer Fuels Reduction
(CE)
Fuels treatment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
North Zone Juvenile Tree Thinning and White Pine Pruning
(CE)
Thin and/or prune approximately 5,200 acres of juvenile sapling sized stands that were established through planting and natural reforestation means on the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake and Sandpoint Ranger Districts.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Selkirk Mountain Range Winter Travel Plan
(EIS)
The winter travel plan will better integrate the social and economic aspects of winter recreation uses with the needs of wildlife and other natural resources in the Selkirk Mountain Range.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sandpoint Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
St. Maries Ranger District
Windy Larch
(CE)
Commercial thin approx. 70 acres using skyline and tractor logging systems
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Charlie Preston
(EA)
Timber harvest, Rx burn, system road construction, temp road construction, road reconstruction, road decommissioning, road storage,riparian planting, LWD placement, culvert replacements, fuel treatment, planting
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products
Bussel 484 Supplemental
(EIS)
Supplement the Bussel 484 EIS. Maintain or improve vegetation resiliency, provide wood products, work toward full support of designated beneficial uses, and manage access. 2012 ROD signed on 1/6/2012.
Legal notice of decision beginning appeal period published 1/27/2012.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: St. Maries Ranger District
Purpose: Road management, Watershed management, Forest products, Recreation management
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