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Land & Resources Management
The mission of the Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. On the Salmon-Challis, that means administering nearly 4.4 million acres, including the 1.3 million acres of the Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness Area. This section includes information about forest planning, current projects, resource management, available geospatial data, and fire management.
Planning & Projects
Resource Management
Geospatial Data
Fire Management
Salmon-Challis National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Note: Not all projects may appear on map. See list below for complete list of projects with more information or documentation.
Developing Proposal
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Salmon-Challis Forest Plan Revision
The Salmon-Challis National Forest is revising and updating the 1987 Challis and the 1988 Salmon Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan)
Under Analysis
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Agency Post and Pole
The Forest proposes to remove live and dead trees on up to 70 acres on the Leadore Ranger District to provide post and pole products while reducing stocking levels in lodgepole pine stands.
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Amendments to Land Management Plans Regarding Sage-grouse Conservation
The Forest Service is considering amending its land management plans to address new and evolving issues arising since implementing sage-grouse plans in 2015. This project is in cooperation with the USDI Bureau of Land Management.
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Bia Po'i Naokwaide Aquatic Organism Passage Improvement Project
Replace two undersized corrugated metal culverts on Bia Po%u2019i Naokwaide with bridges to improve passage for aquatic organisms.
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Blind Fork Exclosures and Water Development
Construction of two exclosures around two springs on the Blind Fork of Trail Creek to exclude livestock. The project would include replacement of one trough and the addition of a headbox at one spring, which would be piped to the trough.
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Camas Creek Road (NFSR 258) and Fish Habitat Improvement Project, Phase I
The project would reroute part of NFSR 258 away from the streambank, install a new channel-spanning bridge in a more stable location, rehabilitate the existing ford crossings, and decommission the original road.
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Cruikshank Riparian Fence
Construct about 0.6 miles of fence to create a riparian exclosure on Cruikshank Creek, tying into 700 yards of existing Forest Service and private land boundary fence to create an exclosure to protect the riparian area.
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Dump Salvage
Salvage log up to 250 acres of burnt and/or insect and disease infested timber which is either dead or likely to die in the next 3 years.
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Knapp Creek I Fish Passage Improvement Project
Replacement of an existing diversion structure with a new structure designed to accommodate fish passage in Knapp Creek for all life stages and ensure full water delivery to irrigated private land.
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Mill Creek Bull Trout Protection Project
Installation of a fish barrier in Mill Creek in the Little Lost River Basin to prevent non-native brook trout from negatively impacting ESA-listed bull trout.
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Shoup Land Exchange
Land exchange between the Forest Service and a private party
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Stormy Moose Vegetation Project
Prevent the build-up of insect and disease, reduce the large accumulation of dead and dying trees, provide a mix of forest products, and decrease the level of hazard trees along main arterial roads within the project area.
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Swan Basin Water Development and Fence Project
Improve livestock distribution and protect riparian areas with the construction of an off-site water source and modification to existing fences.
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Twelve Mile Trail Construction
Construction of new trails in the Twelvemile Creek drainage.
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Upper Canyon AOP and Habitat Enhancement (AKA Upper Lemhi AOP and Habitat Enh.)
Conduct habitat and aquatic passage enhancement activities, including process-based restoration across six miles and habitat enhancement at three stream crossings
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Wagonbox Spring Improvement
New exclosure to protect approximately 0.84 acres of riparian habitat using approximately 600 feet of jackleg fence.
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Wapiti Fire Salvage
Salvage harvesting of dead and imminently dead lodgepole pine. The proposed project would designate 250 acres for salvage and sanitation cutting with no new road construction and no more than 0.5 mile of temporary road.
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West Lemhi Aquatic Organism Passage and Habitat Enhancement
Conduct habitat improvement actions and address fish passage. Habitat modifications associated with process-based restoration actions will occur in the form of beaver dam analogs, large wood augmentation and post-assisted log structures.
Analysis Completed
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Iron Creek Exploration Drilling
The project proposes exploration drilling from roughly 92 drill pads over a 10 year period.
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Lone Pine Exploration III Project
Proposal to exploratory drill at 29 drill sites on National Forest System lands near UP & Burlington Patented inholding west of Salmon, Idaho on the Salmon-Challis National Forest.
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Sheep Creek Vegetation Improvement Project
Use prescribed fire and mechanical fuels reduction to improve timber stand health, vigor, and resiliency, as well as improve wildlife habitat.
On Hold
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Lower Dredge Acclimation Pond
Modification to lower dredge pond to allow the pond to serve as an acclimation area.
Cancelled
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Bayhorse Project
A variety of hazardous fuels reduction treatments over approximately 9,000 acres. Treatment types may include prescribed fire, hand thinning, and pile burning and may also include non-commercial and non-commercial forest products.
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Bonanza Exploration Drilling
Exploration drilling of nine holes. Anticipated surface disturbance of less than 1 acre. Water drafting from Big Deer Creek
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Brocchini Farms Small Tracts Act
Convey a 3.5-acre parcel of NFS land that is entirely within a block of private land to the owners under the Small Tracts Act
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Cape Horn Rock Source Pit
Further development of existing rock pit for use in road work and maintenance and other projects, e.g. stream restoration. Cape Horn Pit is also known as the Fir Pit.
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Hawley Creek- Horseshoe Spring
The Salmon-Challis National Forest proposes to develop an upland spring source and divert the spring water to a water trough and construct a fence around the spring source in the Big Bear unit of the Hawley Creek allotment.
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Hoodoo Airstrip Special Use Permit
The Salmon-Challis National Forest (Salmon-Challis) proposes to issue a special use permit to Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) to maintain the Hoodoo Meadows Airstrip and by making other repairs to make the Airstrip functional.
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Lee to Cove
The USDA Forest Service is proposing to authorize livestock grazing through issuance of a ten year term grazing permit on six allotments.
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Lost River Small Batch Fences
Project proposes to construct three segments of fence totaling 0.9 miles and installing three cattleguards on Forest roads to better manage livestock in the North Fork of the Big Lost River on the Wildhorse C&H Allotment.
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Lower Cabin Creek-Mine Canyon Fence
Install 2 sections, approximately 1 mile, of 3 strand electric fence along Cabin Creek on the Copper Basin Allotment. Adding these fences will create a small riparian pasture that will be used on a limited basis.
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Moyer Administrative Site SUP
Application received for Formation Capital Corporation, U.S. to use the Moyer Administrative Site in support of the Idaho Cobalt Project.
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Moyer Special Use Permit
Formation Capital Corporation U.S. (FCC), Salmon, Idaho submitted a Special Use Application to the Salmon-Challis National Forest for the use of the Moyer Administrative Site (Moyer) for employee housing.
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North Zone Planting and Wildfire Restoration Project
Natural regeneration and hand planting across 34,509 acres that experienced stand-replacing fire.
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North Zone Vegetation Improvement
Conduct a variety of vegetation enhancement treatments across the North Zone of Forest including whitebark and aspen restoration, fuels reduction, and prescribed fire.
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Road/Ramey Fence Relocation
Relocate 0.1 miles of fence on the Boone Creek C&H grazing allotment, between the Road Creek and Ramey Creek units.The need for this project is to improve the distribution of livestock use in the Road Creek unit.
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Sawmill Canyon Access and Restoration Project
Reroute trails away from streams; install three trail bridges on the North Fork of Big Creek to reduce sedimentation; reroute trails or place obstacles and barriers to discourage illegal motorized use; convert non-motorized trail to motorized trail
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Spring Gulch Prescribed Burn
1,554-acre prescribed burn to improve forest stand health, riparian aspen expansion, wildlife habitat, and range forage
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Stormy
Restore ecosystem diversity through increasing forest resiliency to insect and disease agents. Using a combination of manual and mechanical treatments and prescribed fire designed to reduce stand densities.
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Sweet Repose Drilling Exploration Project
Utah Mineral Resources, LLC proposes conduct hard rock, drilling of up to 10 drill sites and reopening 1> mile of previously reclaimed exploration road.
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Twelvemile Allotment Spring Developments
The Salmon-Challis National Forest proposes to develop two upland spring sources on the Twelvemile allotment and divert the spring water to two troughs.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.