Projects

The Lincoln National Forest proposes to construct about 3.2 miles of new multi-use (non-motorized) trail in Bailey Canyon between NFS Road 568 and NFS Road 206 west of Cloudcroft, NM.

The purpose of this project is to reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health and resiliency and promote species diversity for approx. 3000 acres surrounding Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) of Cloudcroft, NM.

The Forest Service proposes to burn hand constructed slash piles surrounding Cloudcroft District Office and broadcast burn around Mayhill and Sacramento Administration sites. Cloudcroft burn is approx 33 acres. Mayhill and Sacramento is approx 53 ac

Dell Telephone Cooperative has submitted an application to install buried fiber optic cable along Highway 137 near Queen, NM.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Roswell Field Office applied for a Free Use Permit in the Devils Canyon mineral material pit. The permit would be for the removal of up to 5,000 loose cubic yards (LCY) of gravel per year. The permit will expire 10 years from the date of issuance.

The forest will be developing a proposal to manage the nonnative invasive plants within the Lincoln National Forest's boundaries. Adaptive management would be incorporated into the analysis.

The Lincoln National Forest wishes to revise their current Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan). The draft EIS considers five alternatives for revising the 1986 Forest Plan.

Our draft assessment under forest plan revision is now available for review. Information on the revision process is also available on our forest website: https://go.usa.gov/xUSMh

Windstream Communications, LLC/Uniti Group Inc. is requesting a special use authorization to install and maintain 2.2 miles of aerial fiber-optic line on existing powerline poles within the Smokey Bear Ranger District in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

The Lincoln National Forest proposes authorizing Otero County Electric Cooperative (OCEC) through a special use authorization to install approximately one mile of new overhead electric line along NFS Road 552.

Peñasco Valley Telephone (PVT) has submitted an application to install 28.55 miles of fiber optic cables along existing utility rights-of-way.

Fire management, fuels management

Identify, fell, and dispose hazardous trees on National Forest System lands along roads, along trails, adjacent to facilities (e.g., campgrounds, trailheads, administrative sites, and range infrastructure), and along property boundaries.

The Forest Service proposes implementing post-wildfire treatments in burned areas as well as vegetation treatments in unburned areas or areas that received low burn severity in the vicinity of the South Fork Fire and Blue 2 Fire scars.

Forest Service is proposing post-wildfire treatments within and near the South Fork and Blue 2 Fire burn scars to increase watershed resiliency, promote reforestation, reduce fuel loads, repair recreation sites, and protect human life and property.

Restore forest health on the approximately 140,000-acre planning area in the southern Sacramento Mountains. Project is designed to meet restoration objectives at a landscape-scale, primarily in mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forest.

The purpose of proposal is to thin approximately 30 acres of mistletoe infested timber.

The proposed action uses a combination of mechanical thinning and prescribed fire on approximately 3,206 acres of National Forest lands in order to reduce the threat of high intensity wildfires and promote healthy watersheds.