Schedule of Proposed Action (SOPA)
01/01/2016 to 03/31/2016
Flathead National Forest
This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R1 - Northern Region, Occurring in more than one Forest (excluding Regionwide)
Bob Marshall Wilderness
Outfitter and Guide Permit
Reissuance
- Recreation management
- Special use management
CE
Description: Reissuance of existing outfitter and guide permits in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=44827
Location:
FNF Plan Revision & NCDE
GBCS Amendment to the Lolo,
Helena, Lewis & Clark,and
Kootenai NFs
Expected:04/2015
04/2015
Debbie Mucklow
406-758-6464
dmucklow@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District, Hungry Horse Ranger District, Lincoln Ranger District, Rocky Mountain
Ranger District, Seeley Lake Ranger District, Spotted Bear Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY Flathead, Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Pondera, Powell, Teton. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Bob Marshall
Wilderness Complex.
- Land management planning
EIS
In Progress:
Scoping Start 03/29/2014
In Progress:
NOI in Federal Register
03/06/2015
Est. DEIS NOA in Federal
Register 02/2016
Expected:06/2017
07/2017
Joseph Krueger
406-758-5243
jkrueger@fs.fed.us
Description: The Flathead NF is revising their forest plan and preparing an amendment providing relevant direction from the
NCDE Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy into the forest plans for the Lolo, Helena, Kootenai, and Lewis & Clark
National Forests.
Web Link: http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/flathead/fpr
Location:
Flathead National Forest
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UNIT - Kootenai National Forest All Units, Lewis And Clark National Forest All Units, Flathead National Forest All
Units, Helena National Forest All Units, Lolo National Forest All Units. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead,
Glacier, Granite, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Pondera, Powell, Sanders, Teton. LEGAL Not Applicable. Flathead National Forest; portions of the Lolo, Kootenai, Helena, and Lewis & Clark NF found in
the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (grizzly bears).
Glacier View Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R1 - Northern Region
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Project Name
Flathead National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Glacier View Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
FEC Line Install Canyon
Groomer Shed
- Special use management
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 11/2015
Expected:11/2015
11/2015
CE
*NEW LISTING*
Project Contact
Sadie Wehunt
406-758-5364
sadieawehunt@fs.fed.u
s
Description: Extend a primary single phase 7,200 volt underground distribution line to serve the groomer shed at the
snowmobile parking lot on Canyon Creek Rd. Roughly 1000' to the east FEC maintains a line parallel to the North
Fork Rd and wishes to extend.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48093
Location:
Red Meadow Reciprocal Road
Easement
UNIT - Glacier View Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Section 9, T31N, R20
W. Near Groomer shed on Canyon Creek Road approx. 6 miles north of Columbia Falls, MT along County road
486 (North Fork Road).
- Special use management
On Hold
N/A
N/A
CE
Len Newton
406-758-5335
lnewton01@fs.fed.us
Description: Proposal to grant a nonexclusive perpetual easement for use of an existing road (known locally as East Red
Meadow Drive) for legal easement access into private lands.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=44783
Location:
Flathead National Forest
UNIT - Glacier View Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Over and across the
following described lands in the County of Flathead, State of Montana, S1/2 SE1/4, S. 6, NE1/4 NE1/4 S. 7 and
NW1/4 NW1/4, S. 8, T. 35 N., R. 21 W. This road is East of the North Fork Road, directly across from FS Rd 155,
(the Red Meadows Road) and crosses the southern edge of public lands in Section 6 (T. 35 N., R. 21 W. P.M.,M).
R1 - Northern Region
Hungry Horse Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Patrol Ridge Radio Repeater
Relocation
- Facility management
On Hold
CE
N/A
N/A
Eric Proctor
406-758-5270
eproctor@fs.fed.us
Description: Proposal to relocate the existing Patrol Ridge radio repeater from its existing site to approximately 1 mile
southwest along Patrol Ridge to a better location for radio communication coverage.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=44782
Location:
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UNIT - Hungry Horse Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - T28N, R14W, SE 1/4
Section 14. Located west of Granite Creek in the Skyland-Challenge area, approximately 4 miles in on FS Rd
1651 from the junction of FS Rd 569 and FS Rd 1651 on NFS land 300 ft outside the Great Bear Wilderness.
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Project Name
Flathead National Forest
Betty Baptiste
EA
Project Purpose
Beaver Creek Landscape
Restoration Project
EA
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R1 - Northern Region
Sarah Canepa
- Recreation management
In Progress:
Expected:03/2016
05/2016
406-295-7426
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Notice of Initiation 10/05/2012
scanepa@fs.fed.us
- Forest products
Est. Comment Period Public
- Vegetation management
Notice 09/2015
(other than forest products)
- Road management
Description: A project to increase forest productivity/diversity/health; provide forest products; manage/improve wildlife habitat &
security; improve fish passage; improve recreation/safety values in recreation sites; & improve scenic views along
Road 38.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=40128
UNIT - Spotted Bear Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Not Applicable. The
project area is located on the east side of Hungry Horse Reservoir, bounded to the north by Paint Creek, to the
south by South Dry Parks Creek and to the east by the Great Bear Wilderness boundary.
Swan Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
R1 - Northern Region
Sarah Canepa
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:12/2015
01/2016
406-837-7510
- Forest products
Scoping Start 03/17/2014
scanepa@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
Est. Comment Period Public
(other than forest products)
Notice 07/2015
- Fuels management
- Watershed management
- Road management
Description: Project will reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire and reduce fuels; improve habitat for wildlife; improve forest
health; improve watershed conditions; remediate invasions of exotic species; and provide wood products.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=43968
Location:
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Decision
Spotted Bear Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Location:
Flathead National Forest
Planning Status
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Missoula. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Project
area is bordered by Lindbergh Lake and the Mission Mountains Wilderness to the west, the Swan River to the
north, Hwy 83 to the east, and the Lolo National Forest to the south.
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Project Name
Flathead National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Swan Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Bug Creek Forest Health and
Fuels Reduction Project
EIS
Matthew Shaffer
- Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Expected:06/2017
06/2018
406-758-3508
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Est. NOI in Federal Register
matthewshaffer@fs.fed.
- Forest products
11/2015
us
- Fuels management
- Watershed management
- Road management
Description: This project will consider the following actions: Fuels reduction treatments, commercial timber sales, reclamation of
roads, and installation and/or approval of existing mountain bike trails.
Location:
Chilly James Restoration
Project
Project Contact
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Two
miles south southeast of Bigfork Montana.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
EA
In Progress:
Comment Period Public Notice
05/19/2015
Expected:01/2016
05/2016
Beth Gardner
406-837-7508
bgardner@fs.fed.us
Description: Watershed restortion project to improve fish habitat in the Jim and Cold Creek Watersheds. These two
watersheds contain important bull trout spawning habitat. Jim Creek is considered "impaired" by the MT DEQ.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=42508
Location:
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Lake, Missoula. LEGAL - Secs 4-9, 16-18
T20N R17W; Secs 1-5, 8-12, 14-16 T20N R18W; Secs 3-10, 15-22, 27-34 T21N R17W; Secs 1-4, 8-17, 2029, 32-36 T21N R18W; Secs 20-21, 28-34 T22N R17W; Sections 34-36 T22N R18W. This project is located
within the Jim and Cold Creek watersheds of the Swan River valley, including smaller, unnamed watersheds
between them.
Sue Tebay
(406)837-7521
stebay@fs.fed.us
Cold Jim Fuels Reduction and
Forest Health Management
Project
- Forest products
- Fuels management
EA
Description: Proposal to harvest timber and interplant on approximately 1245 acres of NFS lands. An estimated 1185 acres of
this harvest activity is located within the Wildland Urban Interface.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38024
Location:
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In Progress:
Expected:08/2015
09/2015
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Lake, Missoula. LEGAL - T22N, R17W
Sections 21, 28, 290, 31-34; T21N, R17W Sections 3-10, 15-22, 27-33, T21N, R18W Sections 1-4, 8-17, 2029, 32-36; T20N, R18W Sections 1-5, 8-12, 14-15; T20N, R17W Sections 5-6. The project area lies in the Swan
Valley, three miles northwest of the community of Condon MT.
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Project Name
Flathead National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 10/2015
Expected:03/2016
CE
Location:
Beth Gardner
406-837-7508
bgardner@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Swan Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Missoula. LEGAL - Section 29 of T21N
R16W. Smith Creek near Condon, Montana on the Swan Lake District of the Flathead National Forest.
Tally Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Lost Beetle Forest Health
Improvement Project
CE
Radnor Resource Management
Project
R1 - Northern Region
Deb Bond
- Forest products
Developing Proposal
Expected:12/2015
01/2016
406-758-5318
- Vegetation management
Est. Scoping Start 10/2015
dbond01@fs.fed.us
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
Description: This project would occur in an insect and disease area designated under section 602 and 603 of the Healthy
Forest Restoration Act; one objective of this project will be to reduce the risk or extent of, or increase resilience to,
insect & disease.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46451
Location:
UNIT - Tally Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Project is
located approximately 10 miles east of Kalispell, MT.
Tamara MacKenzie
- Forest products
In Progress:
Expected:09/2015
06/2016
406-758-3528
- Vegetation management
Scoping Start 01/22/2014
tlmackenzie@fs.fed.us
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
Description: A project to improve forest tree structure and species composition and reduce hazardous fuels by promoting
stands that are resilient to insects and disease.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=43573
Location:
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08/2016
Description: Install a fish migration barrier to reduce displacement of genetically pure or nearly pure cutthroat trout by nonnative rainbow trout in Smith Creek in the Swan Valley.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48032
*NEW LISTING*
CE
Project Contact
R1 - Northern Region
Swan Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Smith Creek Fish Barrier
Project
Flathead National Forest
Expected
Implementation
UNIT - Tally Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - Not Applicable. This
project is located immediately Northwest of Olney, MT. This is the northern border of the Tally Lake Ranger
District.
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Project Name
Flathead National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Tally Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Salish Good Resource
Management Project
EA
Matthew Shaffer
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:03/2017
06/2017
406-758-3508
- Forest products
Scoping Start 06/26/2015
matthewshaffer@fs.fed.
- Vegetation management
Est. Comment Period Public
us
(other than forest products)
Notice 01/2016
- Fuels management
- Watershed management
Description: A project to Improve forest stand conditions, reduce hazardous fuels, reduce sediment and improve water quality,
maintain and improve wildlife species security and habitat, and provide commercial and personal-use wood
products.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47257
Location:
Swaney Range Allotment
Project
Project Contact
UNIT - Tally Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead, Lincoln. LEGAL - T31N R23W
Sections 4-7;T31N R24W Sections 1-10,12,16-20;T31N R25W Sections 1-36;T31N R26W 1-3,10-16, 2226;T32N R23W Sections 19,29-33;T32N R24W 8,9,15-36;T32N R25W Sections 13, 19-36;T32N R25W 26,27.
This project is located approximately 20 miles northwest of Whitefish, MT.
- Grazing management
EA
In Progress:
Scoping Start 12/23/2013
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 11/2015
Expected:04/2016
04/2016
Tamara MacKenzie
406-758-3528
tlmackenzie@fs.fed.us
Description: An analysis to update the Allotment Management Plan for the Swaney Range Allotment consistent with Forest
Plan goals and objetives while protecting natural resources.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=43398
Location:
Whitefish Municipal Watershed
Fuels Reduction Project
EA
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UNIT - Tally Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - T31N R25W Multiple
Sections, T31N R24 W Multiple Sections. The project is located in the central portion of the Tally Lake Ranger
District.
- Forest products
Developing Proposal
Expected:06/2016
- Vegetation management
Est. Scoping Start 11/2015
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
- Watershed management
Description: A project to manage fuels within the Whitefish Municipal Watershed.
09/2016
Deb Bond
406-758-5318
dbond01@fs.fed.us
Web Link:
http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47771
Location:
UNIT - Tally Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Flathead. LEGAL - T31N, R21W, Sec. 3 to
9; T31N, R22W, Sec. 1 and 12; T32N, R21W, Sec. 31 to 33. Approximately four miles north and east of Whitefish,
Montana.
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Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
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This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
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