Gallatin National Forest-Hebgen Lake Ranger District; MT; Lonesome Wood Vegetation Management Project 2

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This integrated forest vegetation management project is designed to achieve the goals of increased firefighter and public safety, reduced wildland fire risks to adjacent property and Forest Service infrastructure, and to enhance aspen forest communities that are in decline. Proposed forest thinning and associated activities target the removal of excessive surface, ladder and crown fuel. This project begins to address the fire behavior concerns that threaten life and property. The scope of action to be addressed in the analysis is limited to actions needed to lessen wildfire risks to life and property in the identified wildland urban interface/evacuation routes in the project area, and whether to implement aspen enhancement. A decision for this Project was withdrawn in November 2009 to respond to changed conditions related to a district court order effectively relisting the grizzly bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in the Greater Yellowstone Area. This new analysis will incorporate mitigation and analysis to comply with current direction related to the grizzly bear, and new information for other resources since 1.5 years have lapsed. Otherwise the proposa