Shoshone National Forest Land Management Plan

Regional Forester Dan Jirón signed the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Shoshone National Forest’s Land Management Plan on May 6, 2015. The below documents are the final documents to be produced during this process and contain the permanent signed plan.

• Letter to the Reader
• Forest Plan
• Signed Record of Decision
  • Supporting documents for Appendix to Record of Decision
• Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume I:
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
• Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume II
  • Appendix A
• Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume III
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Appendix E
  • Appendix F
  • Appendix G
  • Appendix H
• FEIS Errata
• Maps
• 2015 Amendment to 2013 Biological Evaluation -Terrestrial Wildlife
• 2015 Amendment to 2013 Biological Assessment

• Approval of administrative change to Chapter 3
• Chapter 3 Forest Plan Monitoring

 

History of the Shoshone National Forest Land Management Plan revision process

Each national forest and grassland is governed by a land management plan. In accordance with the National Forest Management Act (NFMA), forest plans set desired conditions, standards, and guidelines for management, protection, and use of the Forest. We are revising the Shoshone National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan that was approved in 1986. We are using the provision of the 1982 planning rule to guide our process.

On September 24, 2010, we published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to revise the Shoshone National Forest Land Management Plan and to prepare an environmental impact statement. We have held numerous public meetings and have gathered input on plan revision topics from the public, American Indian Tribes and local government. A draft forest plan and draft environmental impact statement were published in July, 2012. Comments received regarding these documents were taken into consideration as the revised plan and final environmental impact statement were written. The revised Land Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement and draft Record of Decision are available on this website for your review. The Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statementin the Federal Register was published on January 17, 2014. The Denver Post Legal Notice of the beginning of the objection period was published on January 24, 2014

Revised Forest Plan Objections

The objection period is closed. A list of objections are available on our Objections webpage.

 Project Library

Supporting documents for forest plan revision can be found in our project library.