Boppin Basin Salvage Sale; Kootenai National Forest; Lincoln County, MT

摘要

The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of a proposal to harvest timber and construct and reconstruct roads in the East and West Fork of Basin Creek located about 29 air miles northeast of Troy, Montana. This EIS will tier to the Kootenai National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan and EIS, which provide overall guidance for achieving the desired forest condition of the area. The purpose of the proposed action is to help reduce existing natural fuel loadings of standing and down dead lodgepole pine, increase the productivity on those suitable areas that sites currently are not growing anywhere near full potential and increase the health and vigor of proposed salvage stands which will help maintain a more equal distribution of timber age classes.