Projects

A 1.1 mile section of the Allegheny Trail would receive grading and aggregation placement to allow WV DNR periodic access to stock the Glady Fork River.

Placement of a free-standing radio tower on Bell Knob.

The proposal is to provide diverse early successional forest, improve forest health and growth, provide water sources for wildlife, and create wildlife openings/savannahs. The proposal also includes watershed restoration activities.

Friends of Blackwater received a grant through Office of Surface Mining (administered by WVDEP) to develop this project o promote hiking, biking and tourism in the Blackwater River area by creating a loop trail to link the towns of Davis & Thomas.

Create early successional wildlife habitat by mulching and enhance tree regeneration for species preferred by wildlife.

Proposal to allow the State Department of Highways to decommission a roadside park off State Route 72, near St. George. This includes removal of the picnic shelter, fire pits, and rupturing/backfilling the remnants of the vault toilets.

Project cancelled, application withdrawn by proponent.

This project has been combined with other trail maintenance work into one CE titled "North Zone System Trails Maintenance" CE.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC seeks a permit to install a cathodic protection system on existing pipeline to comply with safety regs. This would require 2 anode beds, 1.1 miles of power poles/line within their ex right of way, use of FR79 for access

The focus of the proposed action is on improving forest health and resiliency, restoring red spruce/northern hardwood forests, improving wildlife habitat and increasing age class diversity based on the specific Forest Plan Desired Future Conditions.

This project seeks to improve stream habitat, riparian corridors, and hydrologic connectivity, improve public recreation and interpretive opportunities, reduce fuel loads, encourage oak regeneration, and improve forest diversity and wildlife habitat.

This project include rehabbing the existing Dolly Sods Picnic Area to a more natural condition & developing a new picnic area. *UPDATE: This project will be combined into the Upper S Branch/Lower N Fork Potomac River EA, scheduled for 2022.

Proposal for approximately 15 miles of dual-purpose bike and hiking trails stretching between the Stuart Recreation Area and Bickle Knob. Proposal also includes two overlooks, improved parking areas, and constructing two trail bridges.

Modification to or removal of the Elklick Run Dam located in the Fernow Experimental Forest. Implementation options range from partial to full removal.

This project proposes to drain the Elk Lick Reservoir in the Fernow Experimental Forest and either partially or fully remove the dam which created the reservoir. This project also includes stream restoration around the Fernow experimental forest.

This project aims to bolster resilience of red spruce forests on the Gauley Ranger District by improving their size, quality and connectivity to enhance biodiversity, watershed condition and wildlife habitat and meet Forest Plan desired conditions.

The Kennison Mountain project area includes 69,448 acres located northeast of Richwood, West Virginia. This project primarily focuses on vegetation management, wildlife habitat improvements, watershed restoration and recreational enhancements.

This project would implement a prescribed fire program on 4,665 acres on Little Ridge to restore, maintain, or enhance wildlife habitat and restore the ecological role of fire for oak systems.

This project has been combined with three other trail maintenance projects under the name "Cheat-Potomac System Trails Maintenance CE".

This project has been combined with other trail maintenance work into one CE titled "North Zone System Trails Maintenance" CE.

To issue a special use permit to the Pocahontas County Office of Emergency Management for right-of-way (ROW) of road 438A for approximately 2.5 miles, allowing ingress/egress, routine maintenance, and limited road upgrades.

Includes a 1/2 mile of trail construction/reconstruction at Olson tower. Also includes parking improvements and creation of a 0.3 acre overlook near the tower.

The WV Division of Highways has applied to use 0.6 acres of Monongahela National Forest System lands to access an existing easement to perform repair work related to Swallow Rock Bridge.

Project cancelled after being withdrawn by proponent.

This project is the same as Project #62958 MAR2030 Pocahontas County OEM Special Use Permit. Please refer to Project #62958 for status and future updates.

The Cherokee National Forest, George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, Monongahela National Forest, and the National Forests in North Carolina seek to implement large landscape red spruce - fir ecosystem restoration.

This project proposes to issue a temporary construction permit to the WVDOH for use of a 0.37-acre staging area during replacement of the Roy Gap bridge.

Replacement of the current single plank trail bridge close to the Shaver's Fork Trail Head with a safer and slightly longer SAWN TIMBER TRAIL BRIDGE (single stringer).

Needs exist in the project area include wildlife habitat improvement. Possible treatments include vegetation management and prescribed fire.

This permit would authorize the use and maintenance of an existing Forest System road (FR 249) to South Fork Coal Company, LCC to haul coal and other supplies from their Rocky Run mine to the processing plant (both located on private land).

This project has been cancelled as the proposal will be incorporated into a larger area project.

Proposed closure of Two-Mile Road due to considerable erosion and natural resource damage. The nearby One-Mile Road will be opened during the same time period.

This project aims to move the Upper Cheat watershed closer to the Forest Plan desired conditions by improving forest health & age class diversity, providing recreation opportunities, and improving wildlife habitat & stream/riparian conditions.

Prescribed fire is proposed for multiple areas totaling an estimated 3600 acres. This will be a landscape scale ecosystem restoration effort in WV and VA, in conjunction with the Fire Learning Network.

This proposal will address maintenance of wildlife openings across the Forest through mowing, prescribed fire, herbicide, and other treatments, and will include long-term strategies for determining, prioritizing, and treating existing and new areas.

This project has been combined with the George Washington/Jefferson (GWJ) NF's "Zayo Fiber Optic Line Project #59879". The GWJ NF is the lead management unit. The combined project website is: www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=5987