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Note: Not all projects may appear on map. See list below for complete list of projects with more information or documentation.
NEPA Project Updates
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Shawnee National Forest
SOPA Reports
The Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) contains a list of proposed
actions for Shawnee 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.
Ameren-Illinois is proposing to replace and upgrade 2 miles of electrical power transmission lines over U.S. Forest Service managed federal lands in Jackson County, Illinois.
Upgrade 1.9 miles of FSR 494 Street Road (Glen Street Road, Glen Street Falls Road or Jackson Falls Road)also Jackson Falls trailhead parking area would be improved, expanded, and hardened with oil and chip pavement.
A proposed project to actively manage, with pesticides, invasive species on Forest Service land operated under special permit by the University of Illinois and the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center.
Proposed project is a combined effort between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the lead agency, and the Forest Service, as the cooperating agency to restore the natural ecosystem functions of the Oakwood Bottoms Greentree reservoir system.
This proposal includes the removal of trees so that more sunlight will reach the forest floor, a step necessary to ensure that oak and hickory trees can successfully reproduce and grow.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
Carbon stewardship
Climate change adaptation
Environmental justice
Facility management
Forest products
Fuels management
Grazing management
Heritage resource management
Land acquisition
Land management planning
Land ownership management
Minerals and geology
Projects that may affect wilderness (for mailing list contacts)
Recreation management
Regulations, directives, orders
Research
Road management
Special area management
Special use management
Unknown
Vegetation management (other than forest products)
