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SOPA Reports
The Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) contains a list of proposed
actions for Wallowa-Whitman National Forest that will soon begin or are currently undergoing environmental
analysis and documentation. It provides information so that you can become
aware of and indicate your interest in specific proposals. We encourage your
early and ongoing involvement in any proposals of interest to you.
NF Catherine Ck ford is currently a partial fish passage. This project would replace the existing ford with a full channel spanning bridge. All work will stay within the existing road prism and after project completion the site will be rehabilitated
This project is located at various allotments. Improvements such as stock pond construction, spring development, cattleguards, and riparian exclosure fences to project riparian areas and keep livestock inside allotments.
re-issuance of permit WAV418201, TDS Telecom, which was previously valid from 9/9/September 9,1986 to 12/31/December 31, 2006. The permit area includes .8 miles of buried telephone line in Sec 12 & 13, T4N, R44E, W.M.
The project would replace wood poles with poles with self-weathering steel poles. The replacement of these poles will require new construction of two and three-pole steel structures, guy wires, anchors, and steel shield wire.
The proposed bridge would replace the BC Bridge that was washed out in 2002. The crossing is on the heavily used Chief Joseph Trail (#1803). The bridge would be replaced as a single span foot traffic only bridge to allow safe crossing for visitors.
Harvest 70 acres in stand by Bird Track Springs Campground, with the objective of achieving stocking level and forest health. Use trees from adjacent unit for stream restoration.
Reduce fuel loading through mechanical treatment and prescribed fire. This project area now includes the adjacent Red Vine Vegetation Management Project, for which a decision was signed using CE #10. The agency was enjoined from using this category
Salvage of timber blown down during a winter 2012/2013 wind event. Removal of trees would be from 2 units totalling 71 acres and for 100 feet on either side of forest road 7000 from the junction of road 7000640 to 7040. No road construction.
The project will add large wood to 4.5 mi of Bear Creek, restore the disconnected floodplain, and remove portions of the railroad grade that impinge on the stream channel and block Bear Creek access to the floodplain.
Provide fish passage in Beaver Cr by placing concrete weirs in spillway, rock grade-control structures at intake, and rock and weirs by diversion pool. Place rock to grade channel in Elk, Cove, W Fk Beaver Cr intakes. Install fish screens at intakes
To enhance fish habitat for salmonids by creating active and available floodplain, relocating channel, enhancing side channels and existing channel, enhancing floodplain roughness, enhancing riparian and upland vegetation and wetlands.
Precommercial thinning and burning of overstocked pine stands in the Spring Creek area along FS Roads 2100, 2100-400, and 2100-950. Prescribed natural fuels underburn within and adajacent to previous Spring Creek Fire.
The Blue Mountains Forest Resiliency Project will propose thinning and prescribed burning on approximately 610,000 acres on the Ochoco, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests.
This project proposes to conduct placer mining operations and reclamation of new and legacy mining disturbance in the Pine Creek drainage in the Whitman Ranger District on National Forest System (NSF) lands.
This project would allow a landowner to reroute an existing road outside of the riparian area which will cross the corner of Forest Service property for approximately 60 feet.
The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Valley Ranger District is proposing to construct 3.8 miles of permanent fence on the Buck Creek Allotment in the Orchard and McCubbin pastures.
Mining operator proposes to complete a small-scale testing and exploration operations that will disturb less than one acre and process less than 5000 cubic yards of material. The operator proposes to excavate and explore six sites.
Replace 2 culverts on Bull Run Crk and 1 culvert on Deep Crk and re-align approx 300 feet of the 7370 road to allow the natural channel and flood plain to re-establish. 8+ miles of stream for fish passage and sediment reduction will be opened.
The project will improve fish habitat on Corral, Deep & Channel Creeks which are tributaries to Bullrun Creek and the North Fork of the John Day River. Activities will improve floodplain function, water storage, fish passage and habitat complexity.
(Transmission Line Rebuild) Mainly replacing old power poles with new poles (3) between California Gulch to Auburn Gulch, approx. 1/4 mile rebuild on FS ground.
OTEC will be replacing an additional 3 /- poles on maintenance,
This project will remove hazardous trees from developed recreation sites, including approx. 55 trees at West Eagle Campground and Trailhead, approx. 38 trees at Moss Spr Campground and Guard Station, and approx. 20 trees at Bird Track Spr Campground.
This project proposes harvest for thinning in two units, to achieve stocking level. The two units were treated with prescribed burning in South Fork WUI project. The units are South Fork WUI Unit 2, 14 acres, and South Fork WUI Unit 1, 31 acres.
Proposal to use low intensity prescribed fire to improve elk forage in open grasslands and grass/forb/shrub understories in historical elk transition and summer range in the Chesnimnus Watershed.
The Chicken Ck culvert on the 51 road is undersized and is a passage barrier for fish. This project would replace the culvert with a new bottomless arch culvert. This would improve passage for fish to reach their spawning grounds.
The project will include 2 miles of deciduous planting (48 acres). It would restore riparian habitat and decrease high water temperatures. Wood would be placed in 1 mile of stream.
Bury a new 1.5" HDPE pipeline in the same location as the existing on the ground pipeline at a depth of 24x1/4 mile in length. A trace of wire placed in trench to be able to locate pipeline in the future.
Maintenance and operation of water diversions, weirs, pipelines, roads, and a temporary bridge associated with Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions' City of Cove Project No. 5390-002.
Clear Creek Sno-Park was constructed in 1994 and was intended to accommodate use for approximately 5 years, with a target of approximately 25-50 vehicles.
Reduce fuel loading and return stands to their historic structure while recovering biomass for local industry in the vicinity of the Canal Fire and Cold Springs.
The purpose of this project is to implement the direction of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Plan by providing grazing on National Forest System lands where suitable.
Outfitting and guiding with horses and mules, summer progressive and hunting. 415 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District, 100 days Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and 400 days Pine Unit, Whitman Ranger District.
This project does NOT have an objection period because no parties have standing to object. Ignore any posted Objection Start Dates. Obliterate, replace,and reconstruct this road, and replace 3 culverts
Respond to fire risk by modifying fire potential on public lands and respond to ecological risk with active management to restore fire-adapted ecosystems. Protect adjacent urban development, reduce hazardous fuels and restore fire-adapted systems.
Remove/salvage 5530 ft 18" water pipeline from diversion structure on Bridge Cr to diversion structure on Mill Cr, and install approx 5530 ft 18" HDPE pipe, and associated required access and road work, for City of Cove Special Use Permit
The Forest Service proposes to construct fence on the Divide Cattle and Horse Allotment to control livestock distribution, reduce fine sediment deposition in Little Sheep, Big Sheep, and Salt Creeks and to decrease riparian grazing effects.
Proposal to develop fourteen spring sites to improve livestock distribution in upland areas, decrease riparian grazing, improve riparian habitat and provide water for wildlife and livestock.
The purpose of this project is to remove hazards to life and property and recover the value of fire-damaged trees in a timely manner. These actions are needed to assure public safety.
Mechanical thinning, slash busting, prescribed fire, hand piling and burning to manage and improve vegetation and treat fuels near wildland urban interface and private/public land interface. May include some road construction, maintenance, closures.
A bottomless arch would replace the bridge which was over East Sheep Creek on 5184 to eliminate userbuilt roads and OHV use in East Sheep Creek. 2.9 miles of 5184 and 3.9 miles of road 5182 will be maintained. 3 more culverts would be installed.
Issue a new Communications Use Lease authorizing Baker County Sheriff to continue to utilize the Elkhorn Communication facility for a 20-year term, which will allow continued operation and maintenance of the facility.
Project involves: 6 miles of wood placement; 7 mi of riparian planting; seeding 75 ac; exclosure construction on .5 mi stream; and closing 3 mi of streambottom ATV use trails.
Fuels reduction on approximately 3,000 acres of wildland urban interface. Management activities include commercial harvest, noncommercial thinning, and prescribed burning.
The USFS will evaluate alternatives to the wildlife standard of the Eastside Screens that limits harvest of trees greater than 21 inches for the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, Malheur, Ochoco, Deschutes, and Fremont-Winema National Forests.
Proposal to amend the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, as amended (Forest Plan, 1990) by adding aminopyralid to the list of herbicides approved to treat invasive plants.
Repair post-fire flood damage of approximately 0.2 miles of Forest Service Road (FSR) 2640 and shift the alignment to raise the roadbed above the adjacent Last Chance Creek and out of the floodplain.
Renewal of a 20 year special use permit for the use and maintenance of the existing communication poles and associated communication lines across 500 feet of NFS lands.
Forest Service is conducting NEPA to gather information about the proposal to implement the GLORIA project,to monitor mountain biodiversity, in the Eagle Cap Wilderness
The Forest Service was a cooperating agency, assisting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in that Agency's geothermal leasing analysis and decision. The BLM issued a record of decision on 12/17/2008.
Provide office & ware house space, vehicle & helicopter parking, for newly formed Grande Ronde Rappel Crew at La Grande airport. Facility would be constructed by Union County on county-owned lands; to be leased by USFS.
Wood will be inserted into 2.5 miles of Upper Chicken Creek, 1.5 miles of West Fork Chicken creek and 0.5 miles of North Fork West Chicken Creek to promote floodplain interaction and create habitat complexity.
This project intends to restore floodplain function and fish habitat through instream and floodplain wood placement on approximately 3.5 miles of Fly Creek.
The objective is to improve spring/summer chinook, summer steelhead, and bull trout habitat through instream wood placement, livestock exclusion, fencing and seeding.
This project proposes to repair the damages to the Hells Canyon Creek Boat Launch and Visitor Center that resulted from the 2012 spring flood along Hells Canyon Creek.
The Wallowa Whitman proposes to repair the Hells Canyon Creek Boat Ramp. Over the last quarter of a century, the rock material under and around the boat ramp and apron has eroded away, leaving the ramp and apron partially unsupported.
The purpose for the project is to move and reconstruct a fence to distribute cattle away from heritage resources and to decrease the effect of grazing on Jensen Spring.
Request for an access road located off Forest System Road 8205 (Hurricane Creek Road) to tax lot 1100. The access road is estimated to be approximately 33ft by 180ft located within:
T.03 S R.44 E , Sec 3.
Restore user created routes by tree felling, decompacting soils, and installing berms. Actions would protect sites from illegal dumping and invasive species as well as enhance cultural resources, fish and wildlife habitat, and quiet recreation.
issue a Special Use Permit for a term of 20 years that authorizes Idaho Power to occupy and use National Forest System lands for the purpose of operation and maintenance of a 7.2 kV electric distribution line and the necessary appurtenances thereto.
Installation of up to 5 interpretive panels at the Kirkwood Historic Museum in the Hells Canyon Recreation Area. A segment of walking trail will be extended from an existing trail to access the new interpretive panels.
This proposal includes two different bridges located at the Kirkwood Historic Ranch. The Kirkwood Pack Bridge and the Kirkwood Foot Bridge. The bridges are rotting and in need of replacement.
Project will repair and preserve Kirkwood Historic Museum structure for improvements in interpretive and educational programs. Preservation of this valued building will ensure availability to the public and education for future generations.
Reissue special use permit for 20 years, to reauthorize operation and maintenance of existing La Grande Reservoir, pipelines and buildings, to serve as contingent water source for La Grande city water system. No new construction or ground disturbance
Non-mechanical thin old harvest and natural fuel units.Spacing 14x-20x. 10% of PCT units left untreated for wildlife. Species prefer w.larch, ponderosa pine, Douglas fir. Will burn slash piles.
The project will address a suite of high priority restoration actions in the Lick Creek watershed that have been identified in the Lick Creek Watershed Restoration Action Plan.
Project activities will include large wood placement, planting, culvert replacement, and dispersed recreation site management, in a portion of north fork, south fork and main stem Limber Jim Creeks.
Noncommercial fuel reduction,west boundary LaGrande City Watershed and key access routes to reduce down fuel and facilitate fire suppression. May include precommercial thinning, firewood areas, slash busting, prescribed fire, small commercial harvest
This project is designed to restore access to high quality habitat for federally listed summer steelhead by restoring floodplain connectivity. This will be accomplished by replacing an aquatic passage and relocating 0.5 miles of NFS road.
The bridge crossing the Little Minam River along the popular Minam River Trail (#1637) would be replaced to assure safe crossing at the site. The replacement bridge would allow safe access for visitors and stock.
Phase II of the Bird Track Springs Fish Enhancement Project. The objective is to enhance 1.55 miles of fish habitat for salmonids by creating an active and available floodplain, relocating channels, enhancing riparian vegetation and wetlands.
Exploration effort to determine size gradations and quantities of materials along proposed channel alignments and at potential borrow sites to determine suitability for riffle construction in the Longley Meadows Fish Enhancement Project.
The primary purpose is to address the public safety issues within the Lostine corridor, as well as mitigate or minimize risks to the other values, including infrastructure (homes, cabins, recreation improvements, roads), the natural resource values.
The Lostine Falls Entrapment Mitigation project is intended to reduce the mortality of bull trout and Chinook salmon at Lostine Falls. The project is proposing to move the boulders at the head of the falls that divert fish into the pocket pools.
Authorize commercial livestock grazing on four allotments (Lone Pine, Cow Creek, Rhodes Creek, and Toomey Allotments) located in the lower portion of the Imnaha River.
The Lower Joseph Creek Restoration Project proposes to restore, maintain and enhance forest and rangeland resilience to natural disturbance and contribute to the local economic and social vitality of the area.
This project proposes to place large woody debris within the channel to improve habitat for summer steelhead, spring Chinook, bull trout and redband trout.
Reconstruct the Mason Dam Boat Launch ramp located at Phillips Reservoir. It would be replaced with a concrete structure in the same location. This work would be accomplished in partnership with the Oregon State Marine Board.
The project will improve spring/summer chinook and summer steelhead habitat through the development and/or reconstruction of 6 upland water sources (5 springs, 1 pond) for livestock and wildlife within the established 5 riparian pastures on Meadow Cr
Place large woody debris in 3.25 mi of Meadow Ck (30 structure sites). Planting for approx. 3 mi. 2 stream exclosure fences reconstructed. Construct additional exclosure fence. Construct 3.3 mi pasture fence. Construct 9 small exclosures in pastures
This projects purpose is to build approximately 7 miles of fence to distribute cattle away from Endangered Species Act listed critical fish habitat, along Big Sheep Creek within the Marr Flat Allotment.
Reduce fuel loading and improve forest health through mechanical treatments and prescribed fire. Provide defensible space around the Sled Springs Guard Station to reduce the risk of loss due to wildfire.
This analysis identifies the visitor use capacity on National Forest System lands only, on the Nez Perce National Historic Trail to assist in the protection and management of trail resources.
Prepare a supplement to the April 2004 North Fork Burnt River Final Environmental Impact Statement to address the inefficiencies identified by the United States District Court of Oregon, August 4, 2006.
Restore portions of North Pine Creek channel, adjacent to Forest Road 39. Affected area is less than one acre, and is approximately 1150 ft long by 26 ft long.
Project will replace one culvert on FS Road 5175. The culvert is on a tributary to West Chicken Creek with the project objective of providing fish passage.
Oregon Trail Electric Company (OTEC) will clear ROW and landings of boulders and vegetation in order to replace 27 /- electrical poles. An estimated 1.69 /- miles of ROW road and vegetation cleaning, hazard tree reduction and pole replacement.
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative is proposing to relocate approx.900 feet of existing underground power line on National Forest land. The proposed work will be confined to the existing 20 ft. right-of-way authorized in the current special use permit
OTC is proposing to install a new fiber optic line in conduit in their existing right-of-way between their Bates to Unity transfer stations to replace the original fiber optic cable installed in 1996.
This project will remove approximately 20 bark beetle infested trees while the beetles are still in them so that they will not attack and kill more trees within in the Oregon Trail Interpretive Park.
Outfitting and guiding with horses and mules, summer progressive and hunting. 285 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District and 160 days Wallowa Valley Ranger District.
Improve forest health, the landscape%u2019s resiliency to disturbance, and increase the structural complexity and species diversity of vegetation to provide habitat for a wider range of wildlife species.
Address existing mountain pine beetle infestation - proposed activities would reduce the risk of a high intensity/high severity wildfire, improve public and fire fighter safety, and move the landscape toward more sustainable conditions.
Reforestation across approximately 2800 acres of lands that experienced high levels of tree mortality as a result of the 2016 Rail Fire. Activities include hand planting of native tree species utilizing seed sources collected from the local area.
Provide for public and employee safety by reducing risk of likely, or imminent danger trees along forest road 3960. There is an opportunity for the removal and utilization of danger trees as timber products where appropriate.
A combination of mechanical thinning, slash busting, hand piling/burning, and prescribed burning would be used to mange vegetation and fuels within the area. Benefits include healthier stands, reduced fire behavior potential and enhance public uses.
This project is designed to improve spring/summer Chinook habitat, summer steelhead habitat, and migratory habitat for bull trout. Project activities include building 45 woody stream structures, 2 culvert replacements, planting, fencing, and seeding.
Place wood structures along Sheep Creek, and plant deciduous seedlings and cuttings. It would improve habitat for spring Chinook salmon, summer steelhead, and bull trout. This is critical habitat for bull trout, a threatened species under ESA
Floodplain and meadow restoration, improve hydrologic function and fish habitat by installing beaver dam analogues, channel grading, riparian conifer thinning, and deciduous planting.
The project involves placing wood into a channel spanning log jam configuration using excavators within Smith Creek. Materials would be hand thinned from two precommercial thinning units within the project area. One culvert is proposed for removal.
Analysis of ongoing range use for management of the Snake River, Double Pine, and North Pine grazing allotments.This project was scoped with Boulder/Eagle grazing; two analyses were done due to Snake/Pine's location in the Hells Canyon NRA.
Analysis of vegetation and fuels management needs in the Little Eagle Creek, Eagle Creek Paddy and Middle Goose Creek subwatersheds. Forest Plan Amendments for Screens.
Supplemental EIS being prepared to clarify the project impacts to elk given the withdrawl of travel mgmt decision, as ordered by Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit (Opinion and Order on Preliminary Injunction signed May 2014).
70 acre commercial thinning treatment (HTH) designed to modify fire behavior and intensity, expand DFPZs, accelerate the stand toward HRV, improve stand tolerance to insect and disease, and provide for landscape and local connectivity corridors.
Goal is to create sustainable, diverse, and resilient forest vegetation using commercial timber harvest, non-commercial thinning, fuels reduction, aspen restoration, prescribed burning and underburning.
Outfitting with fixed-wing aircraft. 75 landings Eagle Cap Ranger District and 120 landings Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. All use occurs on airstrips open to public use.
This small timber sale is proposed to promote resiliency within an overstocked stand in the Spring Creek Area. Treatment would help benefit sensitive wildlife species that depend on single story large diameter stands.
Improve winter range for elk by installing approximately 1 mile of wire fence connecting 3 gates that are consistently breached during seasonal closures.
Construct boundary fence and change kind and class of livestock grazed at Red Fir Spring. Construct boundary fence at Briggs pasture within the Starkey allotment boundary. The area is currently not designed for grazing with pasture rotation.
It will authorize livestock grazing in Briggs and Meadow Creek Pastures in Starkey Cattle and Horse Allotment, to facilitate a grazing research study in Meadow Cr on Starkey Experimental Forest and Range. Will construct 1.5 miles of fence on Hwy 244.
Outfitting and guiding with horses and mules, summer progressive and hunting. 550 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District and 350 days Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.
This project proposes the construction of approximately two miles of fence. Additionally, the unneeded fence would be removed. This project is designed to increase fish habitat quality.
T-Mobile is proposing cell antennas on ATC owned tower. Antennas will be installed on existing tower and ground equipment will be installed inside new equipment building. New solar panels will be installed to provide power.
The purpose of this project is to provide dead western larch snags for stay and jack material for livestock exclosure and pasture fences. This project is being cancelled from the SOPA list, because it was entered on the SOPA list in error.
This fuels reduction project is located within the Granite Creek Watershed on the Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National forests and is located in Grant County, Oregon.
Salvage 250 acres of fire affected trees by the 2024 Town Gulch Fire, as well as harvest hazard trees and road maintenance trees on 10.4 miles of open system roads.
This project will improve forest health. Areas will have mechanical harvest/removal and prescribed burning, precommercial thinning, stocking density reduction, tree planting, hazard tree removal, road and soil restoration, and harvest removal.
This project proposes to remove coniferous competition from approximately 120 acres of aspen stands identified across Pine and Eagle Creek watersheds. The project would include removal of overstory conifers over 21 inches in diameter (dbh).
Outfitting and guiding using vehicles and/or foot travel, hunting only. 20 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District, 20 days Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and 30 days Wallowa Valley Ranger District.
Mechanical thinning, slash busting, prescribed fire, piling and burning to manage and improve vegetative health and sustainability and to treat fuels near wildland urban interface, private lands, and the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
Reduce fuels in the Tyee Butte area through mechanical treatments. The agency has been enjoined from using CE#10 and the project will be covered under selection of Alternative B from the Spooner EA.
Upper Prairie thinning project is a 150 acre thinning project approximately 6.5 air miles from the town of Joseph, Oregon in T3S-R45E-Sec. 33. The project area lies within both the Upper Prairie Creek and Upper Little Sheep Creek 6th field watershed
Renew the current Special Use Permit for Verizon, which authorizes their infrastructure at the Mt. Emily communication site. Verizon's current Special Use Permit expires on 12/31/2016.
Harvest trees for use in the upcoming Vey Meadows stream restoration project. This harvest unit was analyzed under unit 42 of the Sheep Creek Vegetation Management project.
Outfitting and guiding using foot travel, winter progressive only. 600 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District and 600 user days Pine Unit, Whitman Ranger District.
Analysis of proposal for Forest Service to collaborate with Wallowa Lake State Park in designating a user created trail a connector trail between the State Park and National Forest.
Outfitting and guiding with llamas, spring and summer progressive and hunting. 550 user days Eagle Cap Ranger District and 350 days Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.
Treatment of known and newly discovered invasive plants using herbicide, manual, mechanical, biological, and/or cultural methods. The Forest has approx. 25,000 acres of invasive plants.
Supplemental EIS will provide additional analysis of cumulative effects. Notice of Intent to prepare a supplemental EIS was published in the Federal Register on January 30, 2013.
Comprehensive plan for motorized recreation on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (except for HCNRA). Will include designated routes for all motorized vehicles except snowmobiles.
This project would replace an undersized and partial fish passage barrier with a properly sized open arch culvert on NFS Road 5175 to provide adequate fish passage for all life stages.
The Whitman Ranger District is proposing maintenance burning of previously treated forested stands particularly stands in the Wildland Urban Interface portions of the District.
This project proposes to construct 3 livestock water developments that consists of fencing the spring source and installing an aluminum water trough. Modification of existing fences, and construction of less than 10 miles of division fences.
Provide for safety by reducing risk of likely, or imminent danger trees surrounding campgrounds and admin sites along the 3960 road. There is an opportunity for the removal and utilization of danger trees as timber products where appropriate
Restoration project on 2.5 miles of the Upper Grande Ronde River (Woodlee Reach) to improve hydrologic function and habitat for spring/summer chinook, summer steelhead, and bull trout.
