Kemmerer Ranger District, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming Kemmerer Grazing and Rangeland Vegetation Management Project

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The Bridger-Teton National Forest will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to analyze the effects of continued authorization of grazing on 16 sheep allotments on the Kemmerer Ranger District in southwest Wyoming. The first Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was published in the Federal Register on 11/17/2008 (Volume 73, 222, pages 67835-67836) and included 15 grazing allotments. This Notice of Intent is revised from the original to include the addition of the Porcupine allotment to the proposed project area. The project area encompasses 176,828 acres of National Forest System lands within Lincoln County of western Wyoming. Most of the project area's east boundary is west of Commissary Ridge; the west boundary is Salt Creek. The center of the project area lies roughly 17 air miles northeast of Cokeville, Wyoming. The allotments included in the analysis are: Porcupine, Lower Salt Creek, Buckskin Knoll, Lake Alice, Smiths Fork, Aspen Springs, Basin Creek, Devil's Hole, Elk Creek, Green Knoll, Indian Creek, Lake Mountain, Pole Creek, Sams Allen Creek, South Fontenelle and Spruce Creek Allotments. The analysis contained in the EIS will be used by t