USFS releases Savery impact statement

The U.S. Forest Service recently released the North Savery Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Draft Record of Decision.

The project, which encompasses about 45,000 acres in Carbon County, would implement vegetation management, transportation system and travel management actions in the northwest Sierra Madre Range on the Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District, Medicine Bow National Forest.

The purpose of the project is to improve ecosystem health, forest productivity and restore landscape resiliency through vegetation, fuels and road action. Included in the proposal is approximately 6,834 acres of vegetation management. This would include salvage of beetle-killed pine, pre-commercial thinning and hazard tree removal along water conveyance ditches, fence lines and timber harvest access roads.

Additionally, the proposal includes changes to the transportation system in the project area such as changing road maintenance levels, converting road segments into more suitable uses, adding routes to the road system and decommissioning 20 miles of system roads that are impacting watershed resources.

Paper copies of the FEIS along with a summary, the draft decision and detailed maps are available at the Brush Creek/Hayden District Office in Saratoga and at the Saratoga Branch Library. The documents can also be found online at www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=47913.

For additional information on the project, contact Paula Guenther, Environment Coordinator, at 307-745-2310 or [email protected].

 

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