BLM Seeks Input on Fire Salvage Project near Lolo Creek
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Cottonwood, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cottonwood Field Office has initiated a public scoping period seeking feedback on a 49.6 acre fire salvage proposal that will include harvest of dead and dying trees on an 80-acre forested BLM parcel located in the Lolo Creek watershed. An environmental assessment (EA) will be completed for the Lolo 80 Salvage project in order to analyze the potential effects of the proposed action.
The Lolo 80 Salvage project lies up slope from Lolo Creek, straddling the Lolo Creek Road between Woodland and Weippe, Idaho. A wildfire burned through the area in summer 2015. The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail pass through the parcel in a north-south orientation. Special measures will be taken to ensure protection of the trail. Harvest activities would occur in the fall of 2016 with reforestation work to occur in spring 2017.
Please send comments electronically to blm_idaho_lolo80salvage@blm.gov or by mail to: BLM Cottonwood Field Office, attn: Lolo 80 Salvage, 1 Butte Drive, Cottonwood, ID 83522. Comments on the proposal are most useful if received by July 15, 2016.
Before including your address, phone number, email address or other personal identifying information in your comment, please be advised that your entire comment – including personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us to withhold from public review your personal identifying information, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
For a complete scoping package for the Lolo 80 Salvage Project, visit the project website at http://1.usa.gov/1TrCYAJ or contact Zack Stewart, BLM forester, at 208-962-3594.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.