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The Land and Resource Management Plan for the Daniel Boone National Forest (Forest Plan) guides the coordination of multiple uses of the Forest while promoting sustained yields of services and products. Such uses include outdoor recreation, clean waters, fish and wildlife, timber and minerals. Forest Plan goals and objectives provide sideboards for new projects and are designed to move the Forest towards the desired future conditions described in the Forest Plan. These project proposals are subject to resource analysis in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act.
Note: Not all projects may appear on map. See list below for complete list of projects with more information or documentation.
SOPA Reports
The Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) contains a list of proposed
actions for Daniel Boone 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.
Injection of a diluted solution of an insecticide called Imidacloprid into the soil around the base of the trees in the plantation early in the spring.
Abandoned mining sites with features, such as portals, adits, shafts, subsidence, structures, and equipment that are either environmental or safety hazards would be restored to other productive uses.
This project would use a dozer to close and block with gates or tank traps approximately 7.5 miles of unauthorized OHV trails. Waterbars would be installed on steep slopes.
Remove areas of autum olive, bush honeysuckle, and other non-native invasive species; plant native warm season grasses, legumes. Removal would be accomplished with heavy equipment and hand tools. Planting would be done by machine and by hand.
We propose to remove ash trees infested with Emerald Ash Borer within two developed recreation areas. The project would entail cutting and leaving, or cutting and removing hazard trees using manual tree felling or mechanized equipment.
This project would improve approximately 2,900 acres of young (less than 30 years of age) sapling/pole-sized mixed hardwood stands by thinning the current overcrowded conditions. This would promote healthier stands and improve wildlife habitat.
This project reauthorizes Bellsouth's special use permit which covers five different telephone lines (approximately 6.41 miles of line, covering 6.46 acres) providing service to communities in Whitley County, KY.
Analysis of various projects in the Blackwater watershed in Menifee, Morgan, and Rowan Counties to implement the Forest Plan. These projects were developed from the Blackwater Project Development collaborative effort.
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to lease a tract of federal coal and the Forest Service proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM. Surface disturbance is not planned on National Forest System lands.
Issue a marina special use permit and waterline permit to Jesse and Toni Kidd in McCreary and Pulaski Counties, Kentucky as well as issue a special use permit to South Kentucky RECC for a powerline.
Issue a special use authorization to install a septic system. The Bowen's Creek Church is currently under special use permit for their church building on NFS lands. The proposed septic tank would be placed within the area currently under permit.
Prescribed burn approx. 2,350 ac. in two areas to restore and maintain habitat conditions, and reduce risks to firefighters, the public, property and natural resources.
Redbird Ranger District is proposing to thin approximately 2,780 acres of forest stands using the crop tree release method, designed to increase growing space to specific trees by thinning competition of adjacent saplings 30 years old or less.
Close approximately 0.6 miles of user developed roads in the Big Sinking Creek area to protect Federally Endangered Bat Species, and to improve habitat for fish.
Construction of 3 docks along the north shore of Cave Run Lake. These include building High Banks Boat Dock adjacent to High Banks Picnic area, relocation of Scott's Creek Courtesy Dock, and Muskey Bend ADA Fishing Dock/Pier.
Designate new routes, designate uses, season-of-use on existing and new designated routes, close user developed paths, develop new traiheads, and improve existing trailheads to reduce user conflict and resource damage.
Chesapeake Appalachia is proposing to install a new 4" steel pipeline on National Forest System lands. The pipeline would deliver natural gas between two existing wells.
Project cancelled by proponent.
Issue a new authorization to Citico Realty Company for a new term for use of an existing road to access their communications site (located on private property). The authorization area is 12 feet wide by 290 feet long, equaling 0.8 acres.
Construction of a 2-inch gas pipeline approximately 10,946 feet long with a right-of-way width of 10 feet wide equaling 2.5 acres. The pipeline would be buried within the existing roadways at a depth of 24 inches.
Renewal of the City of Barbourville's special use permit authorizing a water intake structure on a 0.5-acre site on the shoreline of Laurel River Lake and 1.4 miles of 18-inch water transmission pipeline across the DBNF.
County to widen existing 1000ft section of Trace Branch Rd from 10ft to 30ft to improve cemetery access. Road will be gravel with culverts as needed. Road will be included in a county road agreement for maintenance once completed.
The project is designed to prevent soil from a landslide occurring on National Forest System lands in Bath County from entering Clear Creek and Clear Creek Lake. Temporary erosion control measures taken after the slide began are now failing.
Treat non-native invasive plant species using manual methods. All treatment activities would occur within 20 feet of Forest Service trails, unauthorized user-developed trails, and former mine locations, and old home sites.
Research results of Phase II of the 2006 Cold Hill Silviculture Assessment: Commercially harvest 125 acres as an oak shelterwood with reserves even-age treatment to 10-15 basal area. Encourage oak regeneration with herbicide treatment of maples.
303 acres of commercial timber harvest designed to improve tree vigor or establish young forest. 170 acres of two-aged shelterwood and 133 acres of thinning in 11 distinct areas. Herbicide treatment of selected species within shelterwood areas.
The FS proposes to issue a consent to lease and BLM proposes to lease federal coal. No surface disturbance would take place on NFS lands. BLM rejected the application in October 2013.
Implementation of the Daniel Boone National Forest Revised Forest Plan through the harvest of timber, commercial and non-commercial thinning, and wildlife habitat improvement projects.
Crystal Broadband Network is requesting a Special Use Permit to install approx 7.22 miles of fiber optic cable across National Forest lands in Clay and Leslie Counties, along Hwy 66, 406 and 421 on existing poles.
Crystal Broadband Network is requesting a Special Use Permit to install approx 7.22 miles of fiber optic cable across National Forest lands in Clay and Leslie Counties, along Hwy 66, 406 and 421 on existing poles.
Cumberland Valley RECC proposes to construct a new buried Primary Power line, replacing an outdated existing line, under the supervision of in-house engineering staff.
Restore native grasses and forbs in the Highway 751/Curt Pond Ridge area of the Stearns Ranger District. The project would restore, enhance, and maintain a wooded grassland/shrubland using prescribed fire, herbicide, and mechanical treatments.
A road special use authorization would be issued to David Rose for an unnamed old road and an OHV trail would be blocked. A road easement would be issued to McCreary County for NFS road 6713.
This project authorizes The Nature Conservancy to use a Forest Service Road (NFSR 487a) to access its nearby properties. The TNC has requested this authorization in writing prior to transferring a property to the USFS.
Replace or retrofit two steel plate culverts to allow for aquatic species passage. Activities include design, replace or retrofit culverts, streambed enhancements, and capture and transport fish.
The project involves removing two cement culvert stream crossings, two cement plank crossings, restoration of stream reaches affected by the crossings, and closure of a section Forest Development Road 9B to vehicular traffic.
Issue a new special use authorization to East Kentucky Power Cooperative to use and maintain a previously permitted electric transmission line on national forest system lands on the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Rebuilding the 69 kV Transmission Line under permit STE4062 that has a permitted right-of-way width of 100-feet and length of 8.6 miles on National Forest. Approximately 11 miles of access roads would be improved or constructed.
Replacement of 49 wooden pole structures with taller steel pole structures within the existing right of way to improve service and safety provided by the infrastructure.
The Forest Service is proposing to reroute segments of the Flat Rock Ridge Trail (#616) and Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail (#100, section 35).
This project would realign approximately 280 feet of National Forest System (NFS) Road 1513A, also known as Flatwoods Road, onto NFS lands to avoid a small parcel of private land on which that section of road is currently situated.
Proposes an administrative change to the Forest Plan to comply with 2012 planning rule, codified at 36 Code of Federal Regulations Part 219. This change would add new monitoring questions to the existing Monitoring and Evaluation program.
If approved, this project would allow the issuance of Forest Supervisor's Closure Orders containing prohibitions to provide for the safety of visitors and the health of the national forest system lands.
Windstream has filed an application for a special use permit to install and maintain fiber optic lines to improve internet connectivity in rural areas across eastern Kentucky. Lines would be buried in existing road ROWs, or hung from existing poles.
If approved, this project would authorize three individuals special use of NFS lands for personal use. Uses include a existing boat dock, a new boat dock and road access to private property surrounded by NFS lands.
Conduct forest thinning, including a heavy thinning to establish an oak woodland structure. Additional actions include periodic prescribed burning, chemical control of NNIS, creation of vernal ponds. and monitoring.
Grant a special use permit for a road and waterline to a private inholding owned by Gerald Strunk, which is surrounded by national forest land on the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
The FS proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM and BLM proposes to lease federal coal. No surface disturbance is planned on National Forest System lands.
The project will involve granting a special use permit to Grayson RECC to upgrade the existing single-phase distribution line to a three-phase, 7200-volt line and rerouting the line from the existing right-of-way (ROW) to the State Route 519 corridor
This project would replace the aged water system including underground distribution piping and hydrants with fully accessible hydrants at Great Meadows Campground and Hemlock Grove Picnic Area.
Timber Stand Improvement in areas around Green Pond Ridge and other locations to thin densely vegetated areas, decrease competition of limited resources, improve forest resiliency against catastrophic events, and improve wildlife habitat.
Request for a road use permit from a private citizen to use Forest Service (FS) Road 3024 to for private timber hauling and the permanent improvement of a private driveway.
The project would expand Dry Dock Road, as requested by Grove Marina, to provide additional parking for the growing number of public visiting Laurel River Lake via Grove Marina.
The London Ranger District proposes to reconstruct the Grove Work Center destroyed in a fire August 2021. Activities include demolition of remains, disposal, and reconstruction in the same footprint.
A special use authorization would be issued to Highland Telephone Cooperative for buried fiber optic cable to provide service to Margaret Fowler's residence which is surrounded by National Forest.
Holly Bay Marina proposes to add 96 cruiser boat slips (completed in four phases over a 10-year period) and creating an overflow parking lot out of the existing bone-yard. All activities would occur within the previously designated permitted area.
Replace a degraded and failing culvert at Hughes Fork Crossing with a stream simulation crossing to allow passage of aquatic organisms (AOP), including fish, frogs, and amphibians.
Issue a new special use authorization to the Hyden-Leslie County Water District to use a 20 ft. long by 20 ft. wide area to construct a pump station on NFS lands along KY-1482 (Bob's Fork Road) in Leslie County, Kentucky.
Hyden-Leslie Water has requested a Special Use Permit for use of ~ 0.06 acres of NFS Lands along Wilder Branch and Trace Fork Road to construct and maintain a 10'x10' concrete pump house and new 4" water line to existing water line.
Issue a new special use permit for a new term for a previously permitted cultivation of a field. Previously published as "Sam Osborne Special Use Authorization".
Control or eradication of invasive plant species using one or more of the following treatment methods: manual, mechanical, chemical, biological and others. If approved, proposed actions would be implemented on each of the four Ranger Districts.
Jackson Energy Cooperative is requesting a special use permit to construct an electric transmission line that would cross approximately 0.1 miles of NFS lands, and retire approximately 0.8 miles of another obsolete transmission line.
A special use authorization amendment is needed for Jackson County Water Association (JCWA) to extend and maintain 20,400 linear feet of new waterlines along Sinking Valley School, Walkers Branch, Gray, and Wind Cave Roads in Jackson County, KY.
The Forest Service is proposing a special use authorization for Jackson Energy Cooperative to install approx. 16,700ft of new transmission or replacement line on new and existing poles. If approved, an amendment to an existing permit will be issued.
Relocate a powerline along KY 587 near Arvel Kentucky: remove existing section of line from cross country location (7 poles); install nineteen new poles along 1.07 miles of new 20' corridor along existing Highway 587 east of Arvel.
Amend existing Jackson Energy Special Use Permits(s) to replace and relocate primary electric power distribution lines in the Salt Rock Road area. Some old ROW areas will be abandoned, and there will be some new clearing along existing ROW areas.
Issue a special use authorization to Kara and Steve Kees to use and maintain an existing boat dock and access trail for personal use on national forest system lands on the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Two Kentucky Early Warning System (KEWS)special use permits have expired and need to be renewed for a period of 10 years. The KEWS provide emergency information from various federal, state, and local agencies.
Installation and maintenance of two Mesonet stations with soil moisture micro-networks on the Cumberland (CMB) and Red Bird (RED) Ranger Districts of the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF).
Approve a special use authorization for Kentucky Power Company to construct approximately 1.6 miles of 3-phase 34.5kV powerline on national forest system lands adjacent to Army Trail Road located on the Redbird Ranger District.
Kentucky Utilities needs to replace a communications and power tower in Mount Victory that is too low, resulting in the transmission lines being too low. Project will cause some ground disturbance within the current ROW. Rehab of site will occur.
Kentucky Utilities needs to replace an electric tower near Mount Victory that is too low, resulting in transmission lines being too low for safety. Project will cause some ground disturbance within the current ROW. Rehab of site will occur.
Kentucky Wired has applied to expand fiber optic lines for improved bandwidth across Kentucky. Lines would be primarily overhead using existing poles within rights-of-way. Some underground installation is needed, using ditch-digging equipment.
Relocation and reconstruction of an existing trail is needed due to a rock slide that has made the trail impassible. New location will be in compliance with Endangered Species Act, Cultural Resources laws and Forest Plan guidance.
This project would repair and replace the existing failing primary electric lines that serve the Laurel Bridge Recreation Area. Forest Service would then transfer the ownership and maintenance responsibility to Cumberland Valley RECC.
Construct a hiking and mountain biking loop trail around a portion of the reservoir. This trail would be approximately 1.25 miles long on national forest. The trail would be a class 3 trail meeting Forest Service standards.
The Lebanon United Baptist Church is asking for a special use permit to build two outbuildings and a playground set on NFS lands adjacent to their church property. They would also mow and maintain the grounds around the infrastructure.
Leslie Co. Telephone has applied for a special use permit to install and maintain fiber optic lines to improve communications in rural areas across eastern Kentucky. Lines would be hung from existing poles or buried in existing road ROWs.
Replacement of existing culverts which are damaged and clogged with debris to allow passage of aquatic organisms, manage Forest Service roadways, and provide safe passage to the public.
Proposal to relocate two sections of line within National Forest System (NFS) lands for improved maintenance of the Right of Way (ROW) and providing local residents with more reliable electric service.
Replace a failing culvert on Little Double Creek with concrete planks that will improve water flow, repair flood damage, and allow aquatic organism passage. The target benefitting species is the threatened Kentucky Arrow Darter found in this creek.
Approve a special use authorization for the operation and maintenance of the campgrounds and other developed recreation sites.The authorization would be awarded to a concessionaire through a competitive bidding process.
Authorization to conduct necessary improvements across the London District recreation sites to improve public safety, ADA compliance, and enhance existing facilities.
Conduct controlled burning in forty-nine (49) areas across the district to reduce fuel loading, reduce fire regime condition class and promote fire-mediated upland ecosystems.
This project consist of pre-commercially thinning up to 3,900 acres of young sapling/pole size mixed hardwood stands, less than 30 years of age, to improve stand health and vigor.
Prescribe burn three areas totaling about 371 acres (207 acres, 115 acre, and a 49 acres). These are abandoned strip mines and grassy fields that have been planted to native warm season grasses. Burning would perpetuate growth of desired grasses.
New configuration and highway expansion of US 25 in London, KY, requires demolition of existing district facilities and a new site with district office and support structures (office, parking, fire engine bay, law enforcement office, and storage bay)
Issue a special use authorization to allow construction of a water pipeline from a private residence to the municipal waterline. New pipeline would be buried in an existing roadbed.
Mowing, burning, disking, seeding. liming, fertilizing and cutting with hand tools to maintain existing wildlife openings on the Cumberland Ranger District.
McCreary Hardwoods, Inc. has requested the authorization of a Special Use Permit from the Stearns District for the construction of a temporary road to provide access to lands owned by McCreary County Hardwoods, Inc.
Issue a special use authorization to Michael Roberts for the use of an access road (driveway) for ingress and egress to his private property surround by NFS lands.
1.Commercial timber harvesting of salvageable timber on approximately 287 acres, site prep with herbicide, mastication of debris, and prescribed fire.
2.Non-commercial treatments on 313 acres. 3. 1.3 miles temporary roads
Approximately 7,000 acres are proposed for the reduction/removal of the mid-story layer using hand tools to work towards 1.K-Objective1.E of the DBNF Forest Plan
The Forest Service, along with the Red River Gorge Climbing Coalition, is proposing to remove degraded bolts along 5 routes located in the Military Wall crag. Trained crews will rappel down and remove bolts by hand using torque wrench or breaker bar.
The MUPB is requesting the USFS amend their permit to add and maintain a new raw water transmission main(approximately 2,500' with 30'maintence area)and an access road alongside the waterline. An area 50'wide may be used for construction.
The Special Use Permit of Mountain Enterprises, Inc., a rock and aggregate quarry on the Redbird Ranger District, needs to be renewed. This is administrative only; no changes to the existing permit are proposed.
Permit amendment for Mountain Rural Telephone Company to installation of fiber optic cable on power lines and underground, via directional boring, located in Powell and Estill Counties.
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (LG&E-KU) is proposing to complete certain construction activities in order to maintain its existing transmission line along the Mt. Vernon-North London Transmission Line.
Reconstruct storm-damaged National Forest Service Road (NFSR) 43 (a.k.a. Whetstone Road) near the town of McKee, Kentucky, to address safety, travel management, and water quality issues.
Establish communities of native cane along the Red Bird River within the riparian corridor prescription area. Build wood duck nesting platforms. Gather butternut seed for propagation; plant propagated butternut.
This project consists of removing sediment behind an existing gabion check dam and installing water bars to allow for proper drainage, improved aquatic habitat, and flood prevention for nearby residences. The project area is on former mine lands.
The purpose of this project is to outline an adaptive management strategy related to the management of early successional habitat, such as grasslands, shrub-lands/shrub thickets, young forest, wildlife openings, cane breaks, seeps,and wetlands.
Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative plans to replace existing copper telephone wires with fiber optic cable in 44 sections of their service area. This would require an Amendment to their existing Special Use Permit LON4010-01.
The Forest Service proposed to issue a special use authorization to PRTC to replace 29,576 non-contiguous feet of copper telephone lines with fiber optic lines on an existing utility poles. Some new poles may be installed to replace degraded poles.
PRTC is requesting to install additional fiber optic cable across National Forest lands in Rockcastle and Jackson Counties to provide internet to the local communities.
People's Rural Telephone Coop is requesting a special use authorization to install 11.4 miles of new buried fiber optic telephone lines along Forest Service road right away.
This project area covers a total of 113,300 acres, with about 45,700 on NFS lands. The project will restore forest health and structure through vegetation management, improve wildlife habitat, and provide forest products for the local economy.
Multiple special use authorizations would be issued to the Clines, Highland Telephone Cooperative, and Southern Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative for road and utility access to private property surrounded by National Forest System land.
Comprehensive River Management Plan & boundaries; designating campsites and trails, transportation, parking and visitor amenities, constructing boat launches and river access points, cliffside access stabilization, and forest supervisor's orders.
Changing the official width designation to 64 inches for sections 5 and 6 of the Redbird Crest Trail and implement ground work to accommodate the new trail widths.
The Redbird Ranger District needs to respond to public interest for increasing the width on some segments of the Redbird Crest Trail to 64 inches. The trail currently has a designated width restriction of 50 inches which does not allow popular OHVs.
The project will increase prescribed fire acreage on the Redbird District to improve wildlife habitat, rare plant communities, and overall forest health.
Conduct controlled burning in ten areas across the district to reduce fuel loading, reduce fire regime condition class and promote fire-mediated upland ecosystems.
Restore a strip-mined area to a white oak-dominated hardwood forest. Previous reforestation efforts were unsuccessful due to soil compaction. Some areas will require mechanical and manual site preparation. No herbicides would be used.
Aerial treatments of an exotic moth known as Lymantria dispar using mating disruption, Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki, Nucleopolyhedrosis virus, or their combination.
Re-route approximately 11 miles of the existing Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail open to bikers and hikers in Rowan County to new location on newly constructed trail, exisiting system trails, system roads, and public roads.
Restore white fringeless orchid habitat and adjacent upland habitat at various sites using check dams and groundwater dams, slope and streambank shaping for stream stability, edge feathering, and replanting nursery-grown plants if necessary.
A Special Use Permit has been requested for use of an existing road on FS Lands to access land locked private property by Ricky Skidmore. Use of road will require minimal improvements and maintence to be provided by permitee to FS Standards.
Amend an existing special use authorization of Roberts Chapel Church to include an accessible bathroom in the existing church building and add a 1250-gallon septic holding tank to service the bathroom.
Installation of approximately 4400 linear feet of 3 inch PVC water main along part of KY 519 and East Clack Mountain Road to provide new water service to 3 customers. The line will be installed on Kentucky Transportation Cabinet highway right-of-way
Extend a distribution line approximately 1,053 feet long across national forest to a private residence. The new section of line would be located along Vanover Ridge Road and would follow the road corridor.
Authorize South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative (SKRECC) to reactivate 1,211%u2019 of currently de-energized lines and install 1,670%u2019 of new single phase power lines to provide electric service to private property.
Issuing a special use permit (STE5036-01) to construct a walkway and personal use boat dock on National Forest System (NFS) lands to access Lake Cumberland from personal property
Authorize Sheltowee Trace Outfitters (STO) to install an anchored floating dock at the Mouth of Laurel Boat Ramp. The dock would be used primarily to safely disembark passengers in association with STO's river rafting and lake tours operations.
Improve water quality and reduce soil loss by plugging abandoned oil wells, removing flowing lines, restoration of stream channels and associated floodplains, and managing /maintaining the many open roads in the Sand Lick Fork area.
The Special Use permit authorizes the operation of a whitewater rafting and canoe livery in areas including the Cumberland River, Rockcastle River and Upper Lake Cumberland. The term of the new Special Use Permit would be five years.
Replacement of deteriorating wooden stairs on Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail with native rock to increase public safety, reduce future replacements, and enhance trail sustainability.
Mechanically treat non-native invasive plant species within or immediately adjacent to the perimeter of the 2007 Sizerock wildfire. Treatment methods would include hand-pulling and hand tools.
Plant native tree seedlings adjacent to wildlife openings in the Redbird Wildlife Management Area. Block user-developed trails and plant with native tree seedlings. Soft mast seedling would be planted to benefit various wildlife species.
Install and maintain a 7.2 kilovolt electric line from an existing pole at the Stonewall residence (existing agricultural special use permit) to the Lyons property. The electric line will occupy an area 30 feet wide by 865 feet long.
Amend South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation’s (SKRECC) special use permit to install and maintain a new overhead electric distribution line located across NFS land.
Grant a special use permit amendment to South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation to install and maintain a primary underground distribution line located in a ditch 42 inches deep, 2 feet wide and approximately 750 feet long, 0.17 acres.
South Kentucky RECC (SKRECC) requests right of ways across National Forest System Land to provide power to multiple private residences in Pulaski County, KY.
This is a wildlife habitat enhancement and forest restoration project that will incorporate vegetation management (including harvests, thinnings, and reforestation), prescribed fires, habitat improvement, trail re-routes, and road maintenance.
Short-term (up to 2 years) closure order for all caves and abandoned mines in the Southern Region (2 exceptions)to minimize transmission potential of the fungus that continues to cause white nose syndrome in bats that has affected populations.
The purpose of the action is to close caves and mines to minimize the transmission potential of white nose syndrome and for the protection of associated wildlife species.
The BLM proposes to lease a tract of federal coal and Forest Service proposes to consent to lease said coal in response to an application to lease received by the BLM. Proposed lease area is approx. 64 ac. and no surface disturbance is proposed.
Request for a special use permit for construction, improvement, use, and maintenance of an existing, non-system road located on National Forest System Lands to access private property.
Request for a special use permit for construction, improvement, use, and maintenance of an existing, non-system road located on National Forest System Lands to access private property.
Proposal to authorize two Special Use Permits: STE5019 for construction, use, and maintenance of an addition to an existing building; and STE5041-01 to allow access to private property via an existing road on National Forest System lands.
Provide for a variety of habitat conditions to augment forest health using harvest, crop tree release, and construction of 3 wildlife ponds. Objector meeting August 24, 2015 at 2:00 at the Supervisor's Office.
Monitor groundwater and collect soil data to assess the stability of the Steel Trap Valley Fill on the Redbird Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest by installing standpipe-type piezometers.
Reshape the stream channel on 30,000 linear ft of Stonecoal Branch. Restoration actions would include moving streams to return meanders, riffles, and pools, re-contouring ditches, collapsing and removing buried drain lines, seeding and planting.
Collaboratively identify new locations to treat hemlocks for the woolly adelgid (HWA). Any new locations would be in addition to those approved for treatment in the March 2011 decision for the Suppression of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations
Identify and treat key stands of hemlock using soil injection of insecticide and/or release of predator beetles. These areas will serve as a diverse genetic reserve to provide seed source in the future.
Proposal to provide the USFS and agency partners with all of the available tools, or potential actions, needed to improve the sustainability of the District trail system
Issue a special use authorization to install and maintain fiber optic lines in an existing right of way, and decommission abandoned transmission lines.
The Forest Service is proposing to reduce the number of trees per acre on 70 acres in fourteen (14) selected plantations of white pine using a commercial timber sale.
Conduct (1) mastication of woody material, (2) controlled burning, and (3) planting of desired grasses and forbs to reduce the midstory layer and treat fuels. This project would be done in cooperation with University of Kentucky researchers.
Creation and annual maintenance a fuel break along approximately five miles of the US-60 Highway corridor east of Morehead Kentucky, from Bramblewood Drive to Highway 799.
Project involves issuing a special use permit authorizing the construction and maintenance of a residential service power-line across National Forest System Land.
Turkey Foot Low Water Crossing proposal is to replace the existing vehicle low water crossing to the campground that was damaged in the flooding in May 2010.
White pine stands planted in the 1960s-80s are overstocked, leading to slowed tree growth, insect damage and reduced tree vigor. We propose to remove white pine and enhance upland oak/shortleaf pine reforestation with fire and shortleaf pine planting
The project consists of replacing unstable steps with three flights of stairs and a small viewing platform overlooking Van Hook Falls on the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail. Labor and materials to be donated by the Sheltowee Trace Assoc.
Applicant proposes to reconstruct and use an old access road across National Forest System (NFS) lands between two parcels of his private property in Perry County, Kentucky, for the purpose of harvesting his private timber.
Construction of a groundwater dam to retain water at a white fringeless orchid site. These orchids are a proposed threatened species found only in a "Streamhead Seep/ Bog Rare Community." Natural and man-made disturbances are threatening the site.
An outfitter and guide service is requesting a multi-year special use authorization to conduct rafting, kayaking and guided fishing trips on the Cumberland River, as well as guided backpacking trips into the DBNF on designated roads and trails.
Application for a special use permit to construct & maintain a water pipeline, an electric transmission line & associated junction boxes adjacent to an existing road on NFS lands. Formerly Booneville Water & Sewer Special Use Authorization.
Reforest 24 acres of previously surface-mined lands in the Mt. Victory, KY, area with oaks, hickories, pines, etc. that will restore the area to its original wooded state. The USFS, Green Forests Work, and many volunteers would implement project.
Excavate 1000 tons of coal refuse from 0.2 acres on the Daniel Boone National Forest in Pulaski Co., KY to be burned by E. Ky. Power Cooperative. This action is to improve water quality in Wildcat Branch, which is impaired with AMD.
The project would restore 32 acres of previously surface-mined site to a forested condition by planting seedlings of oaks, hickories, and other highly valued hardwoods. UFSF and Green Forests Work would coordinate efforts with volunteers to help.
Windstream Comminications Inc.has applied for an authorization to install an aerial fiber optic line to serve the demand for broad band internet access. The line will be installed on existing overhead electric distribution line poles.
