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.

Adopt a long-existing bushwhack within the Pemigewasset Wilderness to enhance the sustainability of the Pemigewasset Wilderness Trail network and improve visitor safety.

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

Replace 15 bridges within the Bretton Woods cross-country ski network to maintain the Nordic network trail integrity, support a safe and positive visitor recreation experience, and make the trail network more sustainable and resistant to flooding events.

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 for bridge and culvert replacements across ski special use permit areas to streamline individual project effects analysis.

Adopt the Franconia Mountain Bike Trail Network into the Forest Service trail system and install signage.

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.

The Appalachian Mountain Club proposes to remove one Adirondack shelter, rehabilitate two shelters, construct three tent platforms and construct a five-bay composting toilet system at the Hermit Lake Complex in Huntington Ravine, just west of Mount Washington.

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.

Diversify the glade skiing opportunities at the Loon Ski resort by incorporating the Black Mountain glade skiing area into the resorts permit boundary and creating standard access routes into the network.

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.

Reestablish historic side channel of Mill Brook after recent storm events, which has been classified as “High Risk” by the WMNF Flood Risk Assessment, to protect Forest Service 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.

Reconstruct parts of the Tuckerman's Ravine and Blanchard Loop Ski trails to provide an all-access trail recreation experience opportunity.

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.

Reroute the administrative access road onto a ski trail to reduce maintenance and safety issues.

Waterville Valley Resort proposes an expansion of their special use permit, Forest Plan amendments, and projects. Project documents are available at https://usfs-public.box.com/s/4jboleynw4gfwsobhm5izhgxjvhxhqnv

Reconstruct the Schwendi Hutte ski lodge to improve facility structural integrity, visitor amenities, and update technology.

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. Project documents are available at https://usfs-public.box.com/s/dtn6qmrxqwcew68zl3jhcftqai0qdipw.