Projects

NPS proposed projects on the AT to address deferred maintenance. Maintenance work would occur at shelters, privies, parking areas, campsites, and trail bridges across the forest.

The project would reestablish connection between Balance Rock Snomo and Powerline Snomo by realigning Balance Rock Snomo.

The Pemigewasset Ranger District proposes to accept into the National Forest System trail network the 1.4-mile long user-created trail called the "Black Pond Bushwhack".

Replace the Bog Dam 3 Bridge with a new, larger structure to facilitate improved aquatic organism passage and road sustainability.

Eight trail bridges have reached the end of their life span and need to be replaced to maintain the trail network. The replacement bridges may use wood and/or steel and may need to be longer to accommodate stream dynamics

Project focus would be to convey the dam, which will result in a similar land use and alleviate the maintenance burden from the Forest Service. This would be a direct sale to the permittee of the special use permit.

Harvest up to 120 acres of white ash and other trees as needed to access ash trees posing threat within one tree length of designated campsites and common areas.

Eversource proposes replacing about 140 wooden utility poles (i.e. structures) with steel pole equivalents in the existing ROW, as well as installing about 102,000 linear feet of Optical Ground Wire.

Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for bridge and culvert replacements across ski special use permit areas to streamline individual project effects analysis. Any project that cannot meet SOPs would go through independent effects analysis.

Designate the Franconia mountain bike trail network as official Forest Service trails and incorporate into the National Forest System trails database.

Construction of a new 0.4 of a mile long single-track mountain bike spur trail about 24 inches wide at Great Glen Outdoors Center.

This project would restore 1.2 miles of the Hale Brook stream channel.

Removal of one Adirondack shelter, rehabilitation of two shelters, construction of three tent platforms and construction of a five-bay composting toilet system.

Replace 5 bridges at the end of their lifespan along Huntington Ravine Water Access Trail. The trail network is used for winter recreation and is an admin route as it is used for rescues and winter avalanche forecasting.

This project proposes two bridge replacements. If the current locations are not suitable, new locations nearby will be considered, and a small trail reroute to tie the new bridges to the existing trail may be necessary.

Timber harvesting to achieve forest and wildlife habitat management objectives. Project documents are available here: https://usfs-public.app.box.com/v/PinyonPublic/folder/371376037940

This project involves replacing an existing culvert along Little Bear Brook with an appropriately sized crossing structure, while also restoring the stream channel.

Loon Mountain Recreation Corps proposes construction of access routes for the Black Mountain glade skiing area and glade improvements to facilitate downhill skiing.

This project would replace the existing 4-person White Mountain Express Gondola with a Doppelmayr D-Line Omega 10-person gondola.

Loon Mountain Recreation Corporation proposes to construct twelve new mountain biking trails, adding about five miles to their existing mountain bike trail network.

The Pemigewasset Ranger District of the White Mountain National Forest proposes recreation, transportation, vegetation, and wildlife habitat management activities within the Lost River project area, Woodstock, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Replace the current Madison Gulf Bridge with a newly designed structure. Helicopters may be used to transport material in and out of the Great Gulf Wilderness.

Reestablish historic side channel of Mill Brook after recent storm events to protect Forest Service road infrastructure and Town of Stark road infrastructure from damage due to flooding.

The project involves relocating two sections of the Mount Stanton Trail and relocating the Mount Stanton Trailhead.

Land exchange of about 1.5 acres with the privately owned Cog Railway in the Mount Washington area. Area to be exchanged includes all existing infrastructure. Area to be acquired is undeveloped land adjacent to existing National Forest System land.

New Hampshire DoT requests the White Mountain National Forest authorize the replacement of a 70 year old storage building and construction of a new salt storage building.

The Androscoggin Ranger District is proposing watershed, wildlife habitat, vegetation management, and recreation management actions in the One Mile Lonesome Ridge habitat management unit.

Cut five visible logs making up the top layer of the dam in a lateral staggered pattern such that the wood would then be angled downstream, creating grade controls so that the streamflow is redirected.

Create an accessible trail, meeting Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines(FSTAG), at the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center.

Decommission the Province Pond Dam and all associated infrastructure, which includes removal of the concrete spillway and beaver deceiver and recontouring the earthen-berm dam and spillway area to a more natural shape.

The RMC Pro Trail Crew and Caretaker staff will develop a new sixteen square-foot caretaker tentsite within the existing Perch Tentsite footprint.

Relocate about 500 feet of Kinsman Ridge trail to the east away from Harrington Pond, and relocate about 1000 feet of Reel Brook trail onto a higher ridge away from Reel Brook.

Harvest white ash and other hazard trees within one tree length to campsites and common areas at the Russell Pond Campground.

This project proposes manual, precommercial thinning and pruning of about 530 acres of hardwood and softwood stands.

Implement a combination of silvicultural and fuels treatments to advance goals, objectives, and desired conditions of the Forest Plan for vegetation, wildlife, and other resources

Replace the Sawyer River 2 bridge with a similar bridge type. A project-specific forest plan amendment is needed to exempt the bridge from the standard on page 2-31 of the forest plan.

Wagner Forestry requests modification and use of a yarding corridor about one acre in size on National Forest System lands to facilitate a 70-acre timber project on adjacent private property.

Proposed recreation, wildlife habitat, vegetation, and transportation management activities.

Waterville Valley Resort proposes to reroute about 1,500 feet of the main access road onto the Chandler's Way trail to reduce erosion issues, road maintenance costs, and time to transport materials around the resort.

Waterville Valley Resort proposes an expansion, see project documents below for details on how to comment. The Get Connected option below is not active.

Waterville Valley Ski Resort proposes to reconstruct the Schwendi Hutte. Additional seats and decks, as well as a new kitchen, loading dock, main deck, and bathrooms are proposed.

Waterville Valley Resort [proposes to construct a new uphill route about 0.8 miles long and three feet wide through trees to move the existing uphill route awayfrom an existing downhill route.

Waterville Valley Ski Resort proposes to construct the 2130-foot Red Feathers Nordic ski trail that will connect the Livermore and Moose Run Nordic ski trails as part of the Waterville Valley Ski Resort Nordic ski trail network.

Relocation of about one mile of the Webster Cliff hiking trail into the Presidential Range Wilderness. This will include a project-specific forest plan amendment to allow the addition of the trail into Wilderness.

The project involves replacing an existing culvert and restoring two stream channels to establish stream stability, allow for aquatic organism passage, and allow for a more appropriate hydraulic capacity.

Manual pre-commercial thinning (chop and drop) and pruning of about 11 acres of white pine stands to increase sunlight, airflow, and temperature of the growing environment, favoring the healthiest white pine trees.

Removing the dam and associated structures and restoring the disturbed areas. Scope of work includes staging area establishment and access road improvement.

Amending the Forest Plan to enable relocations of trails in Wilderness and addition of existing travel corridors to the National Forest Trail System when for resource protection purposes.