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Note: Not all proposed projects may appear on the map. See the list below for a more complete list.
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Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests
The Forest Service follows NEPA regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Under this rule, Forest Service officials determine which proposed projects are shared for public input.
The agency no longer issues a schedule of proposed actions (SOPA) report. Below is the current list of proposed projects available for review—your opportunity to learn more, share feedback, and stay engaged in decisions that shape the future of our public lands.
One tract of National Forest System land (approximately 54.29 acres) would be exchanged for two separate private tracts (approximately 59.84 and 27.52 acres).
This project will salvage log two tracts near Morton Mountain and Long Mountain. Trees were damaged by Hurricane Helene (2024). Salvage logging is needed to provide economic benefits, reduce wildfire risk from fuels loading, and encourage forest regeneration.
The Forest Service is a cooperating agency to the USDA Rural Utilities Service, which is the lead agency for a proposal to construct a 115 KV powerline to McClellanville, SC.
Conducting herbicide treatments in and around recreational fishing lakes and ponds on the forest to control vegetation in ponds/lakes, on the dams and around the shore.
The Forest Service is proposing to harvest timber, improve stream and wetland habitat, decommission roads, improve recreation areas, and restore and maintain gullies on approximately 10,000 acres.
The Forest Service is proposing to do a combination of direct and indirect treatments to suppress and prevent infestations of forest pests and to salvage storm damage.
Henry E Brown Jr. is requesting a 50-powerline right-of-way to install approximately 3,200 linear feet of 1.5-inch copper cable and 0.5-inch fiber optic cable.
Vegetation Management in the form of silviculture treatments to include regeneration cuts, thinning and woodland establishment treatments on approximately 3,178 acres of national forest system managed land.
The Sumter National Forest is proposing to do maintenance and repair on approximately 6.2 miles of county jurisdiction roads that run through the Forest in Saluda County.
The Sumter National Forest is proposing to do maintenance and repair on approximately 6.2 miles of county jurisdiction roads that run through the Forest in Saluda County.
The project scope will include various engineering solutions such as widening and paving of shoulders, wider and brighter pavement markings, edgeline and centerline rumble stripes, RW clearing to improve roadway clearzone, flattening of roadside slop
Spectrum Southeast, LLC is requesting a Special Use Permit for placement of approximately 42,700 feet of fiber cable fiber optic cable to provide service to rural area in Greenwood, McCormick, Saluda and Abbeville Counties.
