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SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED ACTIONS (SOPA)
The SOPA informs people of environmental analyses currently in progress or recently completed on the Forest pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). More...
PROJECTS
Fish Camp Project
The Sierra National Forest, Bass Lake Ranger District is proposing to conduct a comprehensive series of vegetation treatments near Fish Camp, California. The treatments will help restore a healthy, diverse, fire-resilient forest and provide a more naturally functioning ecological process by reducing stand densities and fuel loads. The Project will be designed to protect life, property, wildlife, and habitat from uncharacteristic wildfire by promoting forest conditions that, if ignited, would result in low-intensity surface fires.
FEIS 5/19/2011
Record of Decision 5/19/2011
WILDERNESS PLANNING EFFORT
Planning documents for the John Muir, Ansel Adams and Dinkey Wildernesses.
BUDGET INFORMATION
The Forest Service gets its budget through the Department of Agriculture budget as approved by Congress. Get more budget details about the Forest Service. More...
ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS
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Forest Projects
Projects
"007" Route
(EA)
The project will develop needed social, economic and natural resource impacts and information to determine the purpose and need for the popular user defined "007" route to establish it's designation as a trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
2012 Personal Use Permits for Special Forest Products Program
(CE)
This is to approve the Gathering of Forest Products for Personal Use Under Permits Less than One Year in Duration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Addition of Routes in Potential Naturally Occuring Asbestos Geology to NFTS
(EA)
3.43 miles of routes would be added to the NFTS and placed on the MVUM to allow loop opportunities once testing for NOA has been completed
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Road management
Bass Lake Toilets (Granite Creek and Nelder Grove Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Granite Creek Campground will remove one 'single' toilet and replace with one 'single' toilet. Nelder Grove Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with one 'do
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Bass Lake Toilets (Summerdale and Fresno Dome Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Summerdale Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with two double toilets. Fresno Dome Campground will remove one 'double' toilet and replace with a double toi
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Bretz Mtn Road Extension to Dinkey Creek Road - 10S01 Reconstruction
(EA)
Roadway improvement to adjoin private parcels of land for residential development as per the approved Fresno County Bretz Mill Village Specific Plan. Road will eventually be turned over to Fresno County.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Road management
College Campground Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the College Campground recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Coyote Fuel Reduction and Forest Restoration Project
(EA)
This proposal would manage WUI to provide a higher level of safety from wildfire to residences and businesses and manage trees, vegetation, and fuel beds to improve resilience.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Dinkey Ranger Station Buildings Decommission
(EA)
Demolish 3 storage sheds, one oil/gas service shed, and one warehouse. Relocate Radio Vault and demolish antenna.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
Forest Modification for Seasonal Designation
(EA)
The project will provide a different mechanism for protecting unpaved surfaces and for roads and trails closed due to snow which modifies the current seasons of use to allow additional flexibility. This flexibility is needed during period of unpredictable weather conditions such as no rainfall, heavy rain or snowfall.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Gold Arrow Camp-New Restrooms-Leachfield Expansion and Relocation
(CE)
Gold Arrow Camp proposes to remove 5 existing restroom facilities and replace them with 4 updated versions.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
High Sierra Fuelbreak Project
(EA)
Create and maintain 3 new fuelbreaks and maintain 6 existing fuelbreaks in the front country of the High Sierra Ranger Distict using various mechanical, hand and herbicide methods. Maintain Access roads to fuelbreaks.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Horseshoe Bend Trail Realignment Project
(EA)
Realignment of a section of the Hoseshoe Bend Trail, including construction of a 3-foot-wide trail beginning at the exiting unimproved parking and staging area at County Road 235 and FS 9S75 and extending along the hillside.
The public comment period runs from November 3, 2011 through December 5, 2011.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Huntington Lake Area - Application from SCE Requesting a Permit for Archaeological Investigations (A
(CE)
Issuance of an ARPA permit to complete archeological investigations via subsurface excavations at Upper Billy Creek Campground (2 sites) and Dowville Picnic Area (1 site)
Status: Cancelled
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Heritage resource management
Issue Easement for Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line and Indian Flat Substation
(EA)
Issue an Easement for approximately 10.4 miles of the Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line located on the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, and the Indian Flat Substation located in the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Kaiser Grazing Allotment NEPA
(EA)
Interdisciplinary team to address proposed action to continue commercial cattle grazing on the Kaiser Grazing Allotment following specific grazing and rangeland management direction outlined in the Forest Plan (as amended). Note: The Legal Notice has the following corrections: The project is taking place in the High Sierra Ranger District which is in Fresno County.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Kamook Motorized Recreation Staging Area
(EA)
Reconstruction of a 2.1 acre site to develop parking/off loading, replace deterioating toilet, reduce maintenance costs and impacts to natural and cultural resources including soils and water quality.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS)
The Forest Service will prepare a Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project (KREW Project) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The EIS will evaluate the environmental effects of the KREW Project which is designed to treat portions of the Kings River watershed to improve forest health and to examine the short- and long-term effects of these treatments. The research will lead to information that will be instrumental in future land management planning for the Sierra National Forest (SNF) and other Sierra Nevada forests.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Research and Development
NEON Flux Tower at Providence Creek
(CE)
The National Ecological Observatory Network proposes to establish scientific infrastructure needed for research to address critical questions about land use and climate change on ecological systems and to evaluate the impacts to the environment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
North Fork Pole Barn Decommission
(EA)
Remove and dispose of the Pole Barn at the North Fork administrative site
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Line Facilites Permit Reissue (aka Holdover)
(CE)
Reissue expired or soon to be expired permits to various (33) PGE electric line and associated access roads.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Ponderosa Telephone Musick to Big Creek Fiber
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be placing new fiber optic cable from the top of Musick Mtn. to the Town of Big Creek as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Peterson Mill Cable Placement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be burying new fiber optic cable and replacing copper cable in the Peterson Mill area as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Three New Cabinets
(CE)
The proposed cabinet sites will serve as switching stations linking fiber optic cable to Ponderosa's Big Creek central office. The subscriber lines will originate from the cabinets, creating a shorter length of cable to each subscriber.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Tollhouse Grade Cable Replacement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone continues to replace old copper service cable throughout their service area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Rancheria Campground Rehabilitation
(EA)
The SNF proposes to improve campground facilities and to protect and/or restore culturally and biologically sensitive resources at the Rancheria Campground.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail
(CE)
Establishment of Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail by using 7.5 miles of existing system roads and trails in the area from Piyau Dome to the Mammoth TH. There is a need to construct 5 minor realignmens (~0.4 miles total) of the trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
SCE Big Creek ALP Mammoth Pool Howell-Bunger Valve and Fishwater Turbine Generator Replacement SUA
(EA)
Issuance of a Special Use Authorization for components of the SCE Mammoth Pool HB Balve and FWG Replacement Project and authorization to utilizing FS roads. SNF authorization is required until FERC licensing is in place.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
SCE Permit Renewal for Existing Distribution Lines
(CE)
Renew a special use permit forest-wide for existing distribution lines 33 kilovolts and under on the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Sierra NF Motorized Travel Management EIS
(EIS)
Designate a wheeled motorized road and trail system on the Sierra NF and to prohibit wheeled motorized vehicle travel off the designated system. Project name changed from SNF Route Designation and Access Travel Mgmt to SNF Motorized Travel Mgmt.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management, Road management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Special Use Permit(s) Issuance for Concessionaire Operated Facilities
(CE)
Issuance of a special use permit(s) for concessionaire management (including operation and maintenance) of developed recreation facilities. Locations of facilities include but not limited to Dinkey Creek, Bass Lake, Huntington Lake and Edison Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
Trapper Springs to Courtright Lake Trail
(CE)
To provide safe access from the PG&E Trapper Springs Campground to Courtright Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
West Fork Cow Creek Road Obliteration Project-NFSR 9S402
(EA)
Road obliteration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Willow Creek General Recreation Access Trail Project
(EA)
Proposed construction of the Willow Creek access trail and an associated access road and parking area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Wishon Quarry Stockpile Expansion
(EA)
Supplement the Crane Valley Dam Seismic Retrofit NEPA to provide more rock. Sell additional minerals and timber to PG&E, modify permits authorizing road use, expand stockpile by 15 acres, and divert an additional 13 acre-feet of water.
The comment period on the proposed action began on September 2, 2011. Additional analysis in the form of specialist reports is available upon request.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Minerals and Geology
Yosemite Forks Estates Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal
(CE)
Reissue a Special Use Permit for a residential water supply line (12" or less pipeline), forless than 1 mile across Natioanl Forest System lands on the Bass Lake Ranger District of the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue
(CE)
Reissue 20 yr term permit to Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Resort
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Bass Lake Toilets (Granite Creek and Nelder Grove Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Granite Creek Campground will remove one 'single' toilet and replace with one 'single' toilet. Nelder Grove Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with one 'do
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Bass Lake Toilets (Summerdale and Fresno Dome Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Summerdale Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with two double toilets. Fresno Dome Campground will remove one 'double' toilet and replace with a double toi
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
2012 Personal Use Permits for Special Forest Products Program
(CE)
This is to approve the Gathering of Forest Products for Personal Use Under Permits Less than One Year in Duration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
West Fork Cow Creek Road Obliteration Project-NFSR 9S402
(EA)
Road obliteration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Coyote Fuel Reduction and Forest Restoration Project
(EA)
This proposal would manage WUI to provide a higher level of safety from wildfire to residences and businesses and manage trees, vegetation, and fuel beds to improve resilience.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Under Analysis
Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Trapper Springs to Courtright Lake Trail
(CE)
To provide safe access from the PG&E Trapper Springs Campground to Courtright Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Three New Cabinets
(CE)
The proposed cabinet sites will serve as switching stations linking fiber optic cable to Ponderosa's Big Creek central office. The subscriber lines will originate from the cabinets, creating a shorter length of cable to each subscriber.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Peterson Mill Cable Placement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be burying new fiber optic cable and replacing copper cable in the Peterson Mill area as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Tollhouse Grade Cable Replacement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone continues to replace old copper service cable throughout their service area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
SCE Permit Renewal for Existing Distribution Lines
(CE)
Renew a special use permit forest-wide for existing distribution lines 33 kilovolts and under on the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Line Facilites Permit Reissue (aka Holdover)
(CE)
Reissue expired or soon to be expired permits to various (33) PGE electric line and associated access roads.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Musick to Big Creek Fiber
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be placing new fiber optic cable from the top of Musick Mtn. to the Town of Big Creek as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
NEON Flux Tower at Providence Creek
(CE)
The National Ecological Observatory Network proposes to establish scientific infrastructure needed for research to address critical questions about land use and climate change on ecological systems and to evaluate the impacts to the environment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
North Fork Pole Barn Decommission
(EA)
Remove and dispose of the Pole Barn at the North Fork administrative site
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Dinkey Ranger Station Buildings Decommission
(EA)
Demolish 3 storage sheds, one oil/gas service shed, and one warehouse. Relocate Radio Vault and demolish antenna.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail
(CE)
Establishment of Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail by using 7.5 miles of existing system roads and trails in the area from Piyau Dome to the Mammoth TH. There is a need to construct 5 minor realignmens (~0.4 miles total) of the trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Yosemite Forks Estates Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal
(CE)
Reissue a Special Use Permit for a residential water supply line (12" or less pipeline), forless than 1 mile across Natioanl Forest System lands on the Bass Lake Ranger District of the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Special Use Permit(s) Issuance for Concessionaire Operated Facilities
(CE)
Issuance of a special use permit(s) for concessionaire management (including operation and maintenance) of developed recreation facilities. Locations of facilities include but not limited to Dinkey Creek, Bass Lake, Huntington Lake and Edison Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Forest Modification for Seasonal Designation
(EA)
The project will provide a different mechanism for protecting unpaved surfaces and for roads and trails closed due to snow which modifies the current seasons of use to allow additional flexibility. This flexibility is needed during period of unpredictable weather conditions such as no rainfall, heavy rain or snowfall.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Addition of Routes in Potential Naturally Occuring Asbestos Geology to NFTS
(EA)
3.43 miles of routes would be added to the NFTS and placed on the MVUM to allow loop opportunities once testing for NOA has been completed
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Road management
"007" Route
(EA)
The project will develop needed social, economic and natural resource impacts and information to determine the purpose and need for the popular user defined "007" route to establish it's designation as a trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Willow Creek General Recreation Access Trail Project
(EA)
Proposed construction of the Willow Creek access trail and an associated access road and parking area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
College Campground Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the College Campground recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Kaiser Grazing Allotment NEPA
(EA)
Interdisciplinary team to address proposed action to continue commercial cattle grazing on the Kaiser Grazing Allotment following specific grazing and rangeland management direction outlined in the Forest Plan (as amended). Note: The Legal Notice has the following corrections: The project is taking place in the High Sierra Ranger District which is in Fresno County.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
SCE Big Creek ALP Mammoth Pool Howell-Bunger Valve and Fishwater Turbine Generator Replacement SUA
(EA)
Issuance of a Special Use Authorization for components of the SCE Mammoth Pool HB Balve and FWG Replacement Project and authorization to utilizing FS roads. SNF authorization is required until FERC licensing is in place.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Gold Arrow Camp-New Restrooms-Leachfield Expansion and Relocation
(CE)
Gold Arrow Camp proposes to remove 5 existing restroom facilities and replace them with 4 updated versions.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Kamook Motorized Recreation Staging Area
(EA)
Reconstruction of a 2.1 acre site to develop parking/off loading, replace deterioating toilet, reduce maintenance costs and impacts to natural and cultural resources including soils and water quality.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Analysis Completed
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Horseshoe Bend Trail Realignment Project
(EA)
Realignment of a section of the Hoseshoe Bend Trail, including construction of a 3-foot-wide trail beginning at the exiting unimproved parking and staging area at County Road 235 and FS 9S75 and extending along the hillside.
The public comment period runs from November 3, 2011 through December 5, 2011.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
High Sierra Fuelbreak Project
(EA)
Create and maintain 3 new fuelbreaks and maintain 6 existing fuelbreaks in the front country of the High Sierra Ranger Distict using various mechanical, hand and herbicide methods. Maintain Access roads to fuelbreaks.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Sierra NF Motorized Travel Management EIS
(EIS)
Designate a wheeled motorized road and trail system on the Sierra NF and to prohibit wheeled motorized vehicle travel off the designated system. Project name changed from SNF Route Designation and Access Travel Mgmt to SNF Motorized Travel Mgmt.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management, Road management
Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS)
The Forest Service will prepare a Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project (KREW Project) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The EIS will evaluate the environmental effects of the KREW Project which is designed to treat portions of the Kings River watershed to improve forest health and to examine the short- and long-term effects of these treatments. The research will lead to information that will be instrumental in future land management planning for the Sierra National Forest (SNF) and other Sierra Nevada forests.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Research and Development
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Wishon Quarry Stockpile Expansion
(EA)
Supplement the Crane Valley Dam Seismic Retrofit NEPA to provide more rock. Sell additional minerals and timber to PG&E, modify permits authorizing road use, expand stockpile by 15 acres, and divert an additional 13 acre-feet of water.
The comment period on the proposed action began on September 2, 2011. Additional analysis in the form of specialist reports is available upon request.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Minerals and Geology
Rancheria Campground Rehabilitation
(EA)
The SNF proposes to improve campground facilities and to protect and/or restore culturally and biologically sensitive resources at the Rancheria Campground.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
On Hold
Issue Easement for Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line and Indian Flat Substation
(EA)
Issue an Easement for approximately 10.4 miles of the Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line located on the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, and the Indian Flat Substation located in the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Bretz Mtn Road Extension to Dinkey Creek Road - 10S01 Reconstruction
(EA)
Roadway improvement to adjoin private parcels of land for residential development as per the approved Fresno County Bretz Mill Village Specific Plan. Road will eventually be turned over to Fresno County.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Road management
Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue
(CE)
Reissue 20 yr term permit to Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Resort
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Recreation management
Cancelled
Note: Projects with multiple Project Purposes will appear multiple times.
Facility management
North Fork Pole Barn Decommission
(EA)
Remove and dispose of the Pole Barn at the North Fork administrative site
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Dinkey Ranger Station Buildings Decommission
(EA)
Demolish 3 storage sheds, one oil/gas service shed, and one warehouse. Relocate Radio Vault and demolish antenna.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Bass Lake Toilets (Granite Creek and Nelder Grove Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Granite Creek Campground will remove one 'single' toilet and replace with one 'single' toilet. Nelder Grove Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with one 'do
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Forest products
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
Fuels management
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Coyote Fuel Reduction and Forest Restoration Project
(EA)
This proposal would manage WUI to provide a higher level of safety from wildfire to residences and businesses and manage trees, vegetation, and fuel beds to improve resilience.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
High Sierra Fuelbreak Project
(EA)
Create and maintain 3 new fuelbreaks and maintain 6 existing fuelbreaks in the front country of the High Sierra Ranger Distict using various mechanical, hand and herbicide methods. Maintain Access roads to fuelbreaks.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
Grazing management
Kaiser Grazing Allotment NEPA
(EA)
Interdisciplinary team to address proposed action to continue commercial cattle grazing on the Kaiser Grazing Allotment following specific grazing and rangeland management direction outlined in the Forest Plan (as amended). Note: The Legal Notice has the following corrections: The project is taking place in the High Sierra Ranger District which is in Fresno County.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Heritage resource management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Huntington Lake Area - Application from SCE Requesting a Permit for Archaeological Investigations (A
(CE)
Issuance of an ARPA permit to complete archeological investigations via subsurface excavations at Upper Billy Creek Campground (2 sites) and Dowville Picnic Area (1 site)
Status: Cancelled
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Heritage resource management
Land ownership management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Minerals and Geology
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Wishon Quarry Stockpile Expansion
(EA)
Supplement the Crane Valley Dam Seismic Retrofit NEPA to provide more rock. Sell additional minerals and timber to PG&E, modify permits authorizing road use, expand stockpile by 15 acres, and divert an additional 13 acre-feet of water.
The comment period on the proposed action began on September 2, 2011. Additional analysis in the form of specialist reports is available upon request.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Minerals and Geology
Recreation management
Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail
(CE)
Establishment of Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail by using 7.5 miles of existing system roads and trails in the area from Piyau Dome to the Mammoth TH. There is a need to construct 5 minor realignmens (~0.4 miles total) of the trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Special Use Permit(s) Issuance for Concessionaire Operated Facilities
(CE)
Issuance of a special use permit(s) for concessionaire management (including operation and maintenance) of developed recreation facilities. Locations of facilities include but not limited to Dinkey Creek, Bass Lake, Huntington Lake and Edison Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Bass Lake Toilets (Summerdale and Fresno Dome Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Summerdale Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with two double toilets. Fresno Dome Campground will remove one 'double' toilet and replace with a double toi
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Forest Modification for Seasonal Designation
(EA)
The project will provide a different mechanism for protecting unpaved surfaces and for roads and trails closed due to snow which modifies the current seasons of use to allow additional flexibility. This flexibility is needed during period of unpredictable weather conditions such as no rainfall, heavy rain or snowfall.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
"007" Route
(EA)
The project will develop needed social, economic and natural resource impacts and information to determine the purpose and need for the popular user defined "007" route to establish it's designation as a trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Willow Creek General Recreation Access Trail Project
(EA)
Proposed construction of the Willow Creek access trail and an associated access road and parking area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
College Campground Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the College Campground recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Horseshoe Bend Trail Realignment Project
(EA)
Realignment of a section of the Hoseshoe Bend Trail, including construction of a 3-foot-wide trail beginning at the exiting unimproved parking and staging area at County Road 235 and FS 9S75 and extending along the hillside.
The public comment period runs from November 3, 2011 through December 5, 2011.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Sierra NF Motorized Travel Management EIS
(EIS)
Designate a wheeled motorized road and trail system on the Sierra NF and to prohibit wheeled motorized vehicle travel off the designated system. Project name changed from SNF Route Designation and Access Travel Mgmt to SNF Motorized Travel Mgmt.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management, Road management
Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue
(CE)
Reissue 20 yr term permit to Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Resort
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Recreation management
Rancheria Campground Rehabilitation
(EA)
The SNF proposes to improve campground facilities and to protect and/or restore culturally and biologically sensitive resources at the Rancheria Campground.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Kamook Motorized Recreation Staging Area
(EA)
Reconstruction of a 2.1 acre site to develop parking/off loading, replace deterioating toilet, reduce maintenance costs and impacts to natural and cultural resources including soils and water quality.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Regulations, Directives, Orders
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Research and Development
Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS)
The Forest Service will prepare a Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project (KREW Project) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The EIS will evaluate the environmental effects of the KREW Project which is designed to treat portions of the Kings River watershed to improve forest health and to examine the short- and long-term effects of these treatments. The research will lead to information that will be instrumental in future land management planning for the Sierra National Forest (SNF) and other Sierra Nevada forests.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Research and Development
Road management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Addition of Routes in Potential Naturally Occuring Asbestos Geology to NFTS
(EA)
3.43 miles of routes would be added to the NFTS and placed on the MVUM to allow loop opportunities once testing for NOA has been completed
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Road management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Bretz Mtn Road Extension to Dinkey Creek Road - 10S01 Reconstruction
(EA)
Roadway improvement to adjoin private parcels of land for residential development as per the approved Fresno County Bretz Mill Village Specific Plan. Road will eventually be turned over to Fresno County.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Road management
Sierra NF Motorized Travel Management EIS
(EIS)
Designate a wheeled motorized road and trail system on the Sierra NF and to prohibit wheeled motorized vehicle travel off the designated system. Project name changed from SNF Route Designation and Access Travel Mgmt to SNF Motorized Travel Mgmt.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management, Road management
Special use management
Trapper Springs to Courtright Lake Trail
(CE)
To provide safe access from the PG&E Trapper Springs Campground to Courtright Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Three New Cabinets
(CE)
The proposed cabinet sites will serve as switching stations linking fiber optic cable to Ponderosa's Big Creek central office. The subscriber lines will originate from the cabinets, creating a shorter length of cable to each subscriber.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Peterson Mill Cable Placement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be burying new fiber optic cable and replacing copper cable in the Peterson Mill area as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Tollhouse Grade Cable Replacement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone continues to replace old copper service cable throughout their service area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
SCE Permit Renewal for Existing Distribution Lines
(CE)
Renew a special use permit forest-wide for existing distribution lines 33 kilovolts and under on the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Line Facilites Permit Reissue (aka Holdover)
(CE)
Reissue expired or soon to be expired permits to various (33) PGE electric line and associated access roads.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Musick to Big Creek Fiber
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be placing new fiber optic cable from the top of Musick Mtn. to the Town of Big Creek as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
NEON Flux Tower at Providence Creek
(CE)
The National Ecological Observatory Network proposes to establish scientific infrastructure needed for research to address critical questions about land use and climate change on ecological systems and to evaluate the impacts to the environment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Yosemite Forks Estates Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal
(CE)
Reissue a Special Use Permit for a residential water supply line (12" or less pipeline), forless than 1 mile across Natioanl Forest System lands on the Bass Lake Ranger District of the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Issue Easement for Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line and Indian Flat Substation
(EA)
Issue an Easement for approximately 10.4 miles of the Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line located on the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, and the Indian Flat Substation located in the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Bretz Mtn Road Extension to Dinkey Creek Road - 10S01 Reconstruction
(EA)
Roadway improvement to adjoin private parcels of land for residential development as per the approved Fresno County Bretz Mill Village Specific Plan. Road will eventually be turned over to Fresno County.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Road management
SCE Big Creek ALP Mammoth Pool Howell-Bunger Valve and Fishwater Turbine Generator Replacement SUA
(EA)
Issuance of a Special Use Authorization for components of the SCE Mammoth Pool HB Balve and FWG Replacement Project and authorization to utilizing FS roads. SNF authorization is required until FERC licensing is in place.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue
(CE)
Reissue 20 yr term permit to Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Resort
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Recreation management
Gold Arrow Camp-New Restrooms-Leachfield Expansion and Relocation
(CE)
Gold Arrow Camp proposes to remove 5 existing restroom facilities and replace them with 4 updated versions.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
2012 Personal Use Permits for Special Forest Products Program
(CE)
This is to approve the Gathering of Forest Products for Personal Use Under Permits Less than One Year in Duration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Coyote Fuel Reduction and Forest Restoration Project
(EA)
This proposal would manage WUI to provide a higher level of safety from wildfire to residences and businesses and manage trees, vegetation, and fuel beds to improve resilience.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
Watershed management
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
West Fork Cow Creek Road Obliteration Project-NFSR 9S402
(EA)
Road obliteration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Sierra National Forest All Units
Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the Dowville Dowville Day-Use Picnic Area recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Special Use Permit(s) Issuance for Concessionaire Operated Facilities
(CE)
Issuance of a special use permit(s) for concessionaire management (including operation and maintenance) of developed recreation facilities. Locations of facilities include but not limited to Dinkey Creek, Bass Lake, Huntington Lake and Edison Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Issue Easement for Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line and Indian Flat Substation
(EA)
Issue an Easement for approximately 10.4 miles of the Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line located on the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, and the Indian Flat Substation located in the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Forest Modification for Seasonal Designation
(EA)
The project will provide a different mechanism for protecting unpaved surfaces and for roads and trails closed due to snow which modifies the current seasons of use to allow additional flexibility. This flexibility is needed during period of unpredictable weather conditions such as no rainfall, heavy rain or snowfall.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Addition of Routes in Potential Naturally Occuring Asbestos Geology to NFTS
(EA)
3.43 miles of routes would be added to the NFTS and placed on the MVUM to allow loop opportunities once testing for NOA has been completed
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Road management
"007" Route
(EA)
The project will develop needed social, economic and natural resource impacts and information to determine the purpose and need for the popular user defined "007" route to establish it's designation as a trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
College Campground Rehabilitation Project
(EA)
Rehabilitation of the College Campground recreation facilities includes reconditioning or replacement of existing fixed assets (e.g., repaving existing roads, replacing existing picnic tables, campfire rings, and vault toilets).
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
2012 Personal Use Permits for Special Forest Products Program
(CE)
This is to approve the Gathering of Forest Products for Personal Use Under Permits Less than One Year in Duration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products)
SCE Big Creek ALP Mammoth Pool Howell-Bunger Valve and Fishwater Turbine Generator Replacement SUA
(EA)
Issuance of a Special Use Authorization for components of the SCE Mammoth Pool HB Balve and FWG Replacement Project and authorization to utilizing FS roads. SNF authorization is required until FERC licensing is in place.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Special use management
Sierra NF Motorized Travel Management EIS
(EIS)
Designate a wheeled motorized road and trail system on the Sierra NF and to prohibit wheeled motorized vehicle travel off the designated system. Project name changed from SNF Route Designation and Access Travel Mgmt to SNF Motorized Travel Mgmt.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management, Road management
Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS)
The Forest Service will prepare a Kings River Experimental Watershed Forest Health and Research Project (KREW Project) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The EIS will evaluate the environmental effects of the KREW Project which is designed to treat portions of the Kings River watershed to improve forest health and to examine the short- and long-term effects of these treatments. The research will lead to information that will be instrumental in future land management planning for the Sierra National Forest (SNF) and other Sierra Nevada forests.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Research and Development
Huntington Lake Area - Application from SCE Requesting a Permit for Archaeological Investigations (A
(CE)
Issuance of an ARPA permit to complete archeological investigations via subsurface excavations at Upper Billy Creek Campground (2 sites) and Dowville Picnic Area (1 site)
Status: Cancelled
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Heritage resource management
Wishon Quarry Stockpile Expansion
(EA)
Supplement the Crane Valley Dam Seismic Retrofit NEPA to provide more rock. Sell additional minerals and timber to PG&E, modify permits authorizing road use, expand stockpile by 15 acres, and divert an additional 13 acre-feet of water.
The comment period on the proposed action began on September 2, 2011. Additional analysis in the form of specialist reports is available upon request.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Minerals and Geology
Rancheria Campground Rehabilitation
(EA)
The SNF proposes to improve campground facilities and to protect and/or restore culturally and biologically sensitive resources at the Rancheria Campground.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Sierra National Forest All Units
Purpose: Recreation management
Bass Lake Ranger District
Greys Mountain Ecosystem Restoration Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands, restore key ecological watershed components, and restore wildlife structures/habitat.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management, Recreation management
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Line Facilites Permit Reissue (aka Holdover)
(CE)
Reissue expired or soon to be expired permits to various (33) PGE electric line and associated access roads.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Whisky Ridge Ecological Restoration Project
(EIS)
The project would implement a strategy for ecological restoration that emphasizes the ecological role of fire, changing climate conditions, sensitive wildlife habitat and the importance of forest structure heterogeneity and hydrologic function.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Heritage resource management, Recreation management, Watershed management, Road management
North Fork Pole Barn Decommission
(EA)
Remove and dispose of the Pole Barn at the North Fork administrative site
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail
(CE)
Establishment of Reach 8 of the San Joaquin River Trail by using 7.5 miles of existing system roads and trails in the area from Piyau Dome to the Mammoth TH. There is a need to construct 5 minor realignmens (~0.4 miles total) of the trail.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Yosemite Forks Estates Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal
(CE)
Reissue a Special Use Permit for a residential water supply line (12" or less pipeline), forless than 1 mile across Natioanl Forest System lands on the Bass Lake Ranger District of the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Source/Kinsman Project
(CE)
The Source/Kinsman Project is a vegetation managment project which will utilize prescribed fire, mastication and brush crushing to modify and or remove vegetation to ehance wildlife habitat, cultural resources and manage fuel loading in WUI
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Fuels management, Heritage resource management
Bass Lake Toilets (Granite Creek and Nelder Grove Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Granite Creek Campground will remove one 'single' toilet and replace with one 'single' toilet. Nelder Grove Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with one 'do
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Bass Lake Toilets (Summerdale and Fresno Dome Campgrounds)
(CE)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Summerdale Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with two double toilets. Fresno Dome Campground will remove one 'double' toilet and replace with a double toi
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Willow Creek General Recreation Access Trail Project
(EA)
Proposed construction of the Willow Creek access trail and an associated access road and parking area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Sweetwater Mine
(EA)
The Sweetwater Mine's been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.The project includes improving public safety & watershed by removing physical hazards, noxious weeds & abandoned property and performing road maintence.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Road management, Land ownership management, Minerals and Geology, Watershed management, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Heritage resource management
Placer Guard Station Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Historic Preservation & Conifer Encroachment Removal
(CE)
The project proposal would remove hazardous fuels, protect and maintain historic structures and remove encroaching conifers from adjacent pasture meadow at the Placer Guard Station Administrative Site.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Heritage resource management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management, Facility management, Watershed management
Horseshoe Bend Trail Realignment Project
(EA)
Realignment of a section of the Hoseshoe Bend Trail, including construction of a 3-foot-wide trail beginning at the exiting unimproved parking and staging area at County Road 235 and FS 9S75 and extending along the hillside.
The public comment period runs from November 3, 2011 through December 5, 2011.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue
(CE)
Reissue 20 yr term permit to Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Resort
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Recreation management
Kamook Motorized Recreation Staging Area
(EA)
Reconstruction of a 2.1 acre site to develop parking/off loading, replace deterioating toilet, reduce maintenance costs and impacts to natural and cultural resources including soils and water quality.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Recreation management
Sugar Pine Adaptive Management Project
(EIS)
The purpose of the project will be to: Reduce fuel ladders and ground fuels in a wildland urban interface area, increase vigor and health of mixed conifer stands and reduce noxious weed populations.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: Bass Lake Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products
High Sierra Ranger District
Soaproot Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals: reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Forest products, Fuels management
Trapper Springs to Courtright Lake Trail
(CE)
To provide safe access from the PG&E Trapper Springs Campground to Courtright Lake.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Three New Cabinets
(CE)
The proposed cabinet sites will serve as switching stations linking fiber optic cable to Ponderosa's Big Creek central office. The subscriber lines will originate from the cabinets, creating a shorter length of cable to each subscriber.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Peterson Mill Cable Placement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be burying new fiber optic cable and replacing copper cable in the Peterson Mill area as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Tollhouse Grade Cable Replacement
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone continues to replace old copper service cable throughout their service area.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
SCE Permit Renewal for Existing Distribution Lines
(CE)
Renew a special use permit forest-wide for existing distribution lines 33 kilovolts and under on the Sierra National Forest
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Ponderosa Telephone Musick to Big Creek Fiber
(CE)
Ponderosa Telephone Company will be placing new fiber optic cable from the top of Musick Mtn. to the Town of Big Creek as they continue to upgrade their system for increased band width and a more reliable service for customers.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
NEON Flux Tower at Providence Creek
(CE)
The National Ecological Observatory Network proposes to establish scientific infrastructure needed for research to address critical questions about land use and climate change on ecological systems and to evaluate the impacts to the environment.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Dinkey Ranger Station Buildings Decommission
(EA)
Demolish 3 storage sheds, one oil/gas service shed, and one warehouse. Relocate Radio Vault and demolish antenna.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Facility management
Kaiser Grazing Allotment NEPA
(EA)
Interdisciplinary team to address proposed action to continue commercial cattle grazing on the Kaiser Grazing Allotment following specific grazing and rangeland management direction outlined in the Forest Plan (as amended). Note: The Legal Notice has the following corrections: The project is taking place in the High Sierra Ranger District which is in Fresno County.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Grazing management
Bretz Mtn Road Extension to Dinkey Creek Road - 10S01 Reconstruction
(EA)
Roadway improvement to adjoin private parcels of land for residential development as per the approved Fresno County Bretz Mill Village Specific Plan. Road will eventually be turned over to Fresno County.
Status: On Hold
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management, Road management
West Fork Cow Creek Road Obliteration Project-NFSR 9S402
(EA)
Road obliteration.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Coyote Fuel Reduction and Forest Restoration Project
(EA)
This proposal would manage WUI to provide a higher level of safety from wildfire to residences and businesses and manage trees, vegetation, and fuel beds to improve resilience.
Status: Developing Proposal
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Eastfork Restoration Project
(EA)
Implement restoration treatments that are collaborately developed to achieve multiple goals; reduce hazardous fuels, retain and promote sensitive species habitat, and promote stand and landscape heterogeneity.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Watershed management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Forest products, Fuels management
High Sierra Fuelbreak Project
(EA)
Create and maintain 3 new fuelbreaks and maintain 6 existing fuelbreaks in the front country of the High Sierra Ranger Distict using various mechanical, hand and herbicide methods. Maintain Access roads to fuelbreaks.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management
Snowy Patterson Plantation Maintenance Project
(EA)
Thin pre-commerical trees and release competing vegetations using hand and mechanical methods, chemical spraying, while reducing fuel loads to help regain old forest conditions, increase vigor, increase stand heterogenity, and decrease fire potential
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Watershed management
Keola Fuels and Forest Heath
(EA)
This project proposes to reduce the potential for severe fire, restore forest structure and composition consistent with frequent fire, and improve forest health conditions on 500 ac. The project is located within the Huntington Basin Recreation area
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Forest products, Vegetation management (other than forest products), Fuels management
Gold Arrow Camp-New Restrooms-Leachfield Expansion and Relocation
(CE)
Gold Arrow Camp proposes to remove 5 existing restroom facilities and replace them with 4 updated versions.
Status: Under Analysis
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Special use management
Dinkey South
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants, Fuels management, Forest products
Dinkey North
(EA)
Implement vegetative treatments- thinning timber stands, underburning, and reforestation - consistent with "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Southern Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests", authored by North, Stine,O'Hara, Zielinski, and Stephens.
Status: Analysis Completed
Management Unit: High Sierra Ranger District
Purpose: Fuels management, Forest products, Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
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