Morrison Creek, Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Routt County, Colorado

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Yampa Ranger District will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to assess and disclose the environmental effects on a proposal to prepare and sell timber within the Morrison Creek Geographic area on the Yampa Ranger District. Estimated date for filing of the draft EIS is June 1999, followed by the final decision in September 1999. The proposal area is approximately 20 miles south of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of T.2N. R84 W.; sections 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 of T.2N. R.83W., and sections 28, 33 and 34 of T.3N. R.84W, Routt County, Colorado. National Forest System (NFS) lands within the analysis area are allocated for multiple uses in the Revised Forest Land Management and Resource Plan (forest plan) for the Routt National Forest, approved in 1998. Lands affected by the proposed project are allocated as 5.11, 5.13 and 7.1 Management Areas. Forested lands within these management areas are designated as suitable for timber production by the forest plan. Following is a summary of the themes for these management a