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Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Under Analysis
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Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Outfitter and Guide Permit Reauthorization
Reissuance of outfitter and guide permits within the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
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Bonanza
Approximately 1,980 acres are proposed for treatment that would include commercial harvest of trees. Mechanical treatment methods would be used to accomplish the treatment objective of Improve Stand Health and Vigor.
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Coyote-Divide Vegetation Project
A Vegetation management project to reduce hazardous fuels and fire threat within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and to enhance associated forest and rangeland ecosystems across the project area.
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Dalton Stemple Fuel Break
Up to 3,000 acres have been identified for potential treatments including hand thinning/piling, small tree thinning, mechanical thinning, which may require temporary road and prescribed fire.
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Evans Dry Fork United States Air Force Project
This project grants special use authorization to the United States Air Force for the operation and maintenance of a missile cable line on a strip of land newly acquired by the Forest Service on the Belt Creek-White Sulphur Springs Ranger District.
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Forestwide Prescribed Fire Project
This project would reduce the risk of uncharacteristically severe wildfire, improve forest resistance to disease and drought, increase tree growth and vigor as well as improve wildlife habitat and watershed function across the Forest.
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Larabee Hat Vegetation Project
A vegetation management project to improve forest and watershed conditions and address hazardous wildfire fuel loads in and around the wildland urban interface.
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Northwest Divide Restoration
The Divide Travel Plan closed numerous travel routes within the project area. In order to fully implement the travel plan decision closed routes will be obliterated and rehabilitated in addition hazardous mines within the area will be closed
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Sheep Creek Road Obliteration
This project will obliterate ~100 miles of non-system roads in the Upper Sheep and Headwaters Sheep Creek drainages to improve water quality and fish habitat.
Analysis Completed
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Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture Park Permit
For a special use term permit with the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild group for expansion of the existing sculpture park onto the Forest Service parcel of land.
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Priest Pass Fiber Optic
Along Priest Pass Rd. (FSR 335),0.5 miles of fiber optic have been proposed to be installed on National Forest System lands.
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Quigley Cromwell Cross County Ski Trails/Road Grooming
Last Chance Nordic Ski Club to expand grooming activities at the MacPass cross country ski trail system. Expansion would include grooming 2 miles of existing routes for cross country ski use, December to March, and plowing 0.5 acres of parking area.
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Wood Duck
Townsend Ranger District is proposing to treat 2,977 acres uses various harvest methods in order to be responsive to the increase in insect activity and minimize potential wide-scale mortality.
Cancelled
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Northwestern Energy Brown's Gulch Line Replacement and Burial
This project has been cancelled due to the applicant withdrawing the project.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.