The Forest Service requested a withdrawal of National Forest System lands, for a 20-year term, within the Rainy River Watershed. An EA will be prepared to inform the Secretary of Interior's decision.
The scoping comment period has been extended to February 28, 2018. Comments must be received no later than midnight, February 28, 2018 and should be submitted by selecting Comment/Object to Project link on the right hand side of this page.
Location Summary
The 234,328 acres of Federal land in this proposed request for withdrawal are located within the Rainy River watershed on the Superior National Forest and are adjacent to the BWCAW and MPA.
District: Superior National Forest All Units
Project Documents
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SuperiorNF_ForestStandsMIH.gdb (PDF 63685kb) Forest's Stand Layer with MIH attributes. For ?Timberland on the SNF? use field NFS_LAND_CLASS = 500; For forest cover type use field EV_NAME; For Management Indicator Habitat use fields MIH01, MIH02, ? MIH10
Application.gdb (PDF 150kb) Parcels included within Withdrawal Application - Note the parcels and acrage in the preliminary list are subject to change.