Developing Proposal
City of Spirit Lake Townsite Act Conveyance
Convey an isolated parcel of NFS lands to the City of Spirit Lake, comprising 158.74 acres, through the authority of the Townsite Act. The land conveyance would enable the City to acquire land adjacent to its current wastewater treatment site.
Rosie Cedar
The project seeks to improve forest health conditions and provide timber products to support the local economy.
Under Analysis
Buckskin Saddle Integrated Restoration Project
Vegetation management activities including timber harvest, fuel reduction, road construction, improvement, storage & decommissioning, prescribed burning, trail mtce and improvement, tree planting, and potential travel management for elk security
Emerald
Vegetation and hazardous fuels management project to include: timber harvest, fuels reduction, watershed improvements, and roads management.
Homestead
Vegetation management activities, including timber harvest, road construction, prescribed burning and tree planting.
Honey Badger Project
Project will be designed to improve ecological/social conditions, including but not limited to improved forest health, reduced potential for high-intensity wildfires, improved watershed conditions, and sustainable recreation opportunities.
Scattered Lands Project
The primary objective of this environmental assessment is to decrease the quantity and modify the arrangement of hazardous forest fuels to reduce the current and future wildfire risk to people, private lands, and resource values.
Westside Restoration Project
Vegetation management activities including timber harvest, road construction, prescribed burning, tree planting and recreation improvements.
Analysis Completed
Bog Creek Road Project
Providing safe east-west access across the Selkirk Mtns for U.S. Border Patrol agents by repairing and maintaining portions of the Bog Creek Road (Forest Roads 1013 and 2450).
On Hold
IPNF Noxious Weed Treatment Project
Management of non-native invasive plant species utilizing herbicides, biological control agents, cultural and mechanical methods for weed control.
Cancelled
Last Rainbow
Exploratory Placer Pit, 25 feet by 35 feet located on National Forest Lands up the Lost Creek Drainage. Excavation will be down to bedrock with the top 7 feet being overburden and 12 inches being pay gravel to be processed and returned.
Last Rainbow
Excavate ~35 sq. ft. panel to bedrock and dredge inside hole
Selkirk Mountain Range Winter Travel Plan
Travel management plan for motorized winter recreation use within the Selkirk Mountain Range on the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake Ranger District and Sandpoint Ranger District.
Snow Fuels
Fuel reduction project that includes hand felling small trees, hand piling slash and forest debris, and burning piles.
Snow Peak Prescribed Burn
Improve browse conditions for big game, improve vegetation conditions to increase resilience to insect and disease, and reduce fuel loading.
Upper Lochsa Land Exchange
The Forest Service (FS) is considering a land exchange with Western Pacific Timber. The FS would receive approx. 40,000 acres of WPT land in the upper Lochsa River drainage and WPT would recieve an equal value of Forest Service land in north Idaho.
Project Archive
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