South Bear River Range Allotment Management Plan Revisions; Caribou-Targhee National Forest; Bear Lake and Franklin Counties, ID

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The Montpelier Ranger District, Caribou-Targhee National Forest will be preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of continued domestic livestock grazing on eight cattle allotments and two sheep allotments within the South Bear River Ranger project area. The project area is the Idaho tract of the Cache National Forest. It includes the portion of the Bear River Range of the Wasatch Range which extends from the Utah-Idaho border to just south of Emigration Highway, Idaho. The communities of Fish Haven, St. Charles, Bloomington, and Paris are situated east of this area, and Preston and Franklin lie west of the project area. Allotment Management Plans would be revised on the following allotments: Bear Lake C&H, Bloomington C&H, Cherryville C&H, Franklin Basin S&G, Fish Haven C&H, Logan River S&G, Mink Creek C&H, Paris-Liberty C&H, and Sugar Creek C&H. The scope of the analysis is limited to the consideration of the revision of the Allotment Management Plans and connected actions. The project impact zone includes Bear Lake and Franklin Counties, Idaho, and Idaho Fish and Game Hunting Units (77) and (78). Implementation of this project is scheduled to begin