Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement, Canal Hoya Timber Sale, Tongass National Forest, Stikine Area, Wrangell, Alaska

Resumen

The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service will prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Canal Hoya Timber Sale located on the Stikine Area of the Tongass National Forest. This Notice of Intent revises the Notice of Intent published December 23, 1996 (page 67530) by describing changes to the purpose and need and the schedule for decision. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement is being prepared to respond to the new management direction and standards and guidelines of the Tongass National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) released in May 1997.