Schedule of Proposed Action (SOPA)
10/01/2015 to 12/31/2015
Custer Gallatin 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
Custer Gallatin National Forest, Forestwide (excluding Projects occurring in more than one Forest)
2015 Hazardous Mine Closures
- Minerals and Geology
CE
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/15/2015
Expected:07/2015
07/2015
Robert Grosvenor
406-848-7375 ext.28
rgrosvenor@fs.fed.us
Description: Physical closure of identified mine hazards across multiple districts oof the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45499
Location:
Aspen restoration
UNIT - Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin, Park, Stillwater, Sweet
Grass, Yellowstone. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Multiple locations in identified mining districts across the Forest.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
CE
In Progress:
Scoping Start 05/01/2013
Expected:07/2014
08/2014
Jodie Canfield
406-587-6739
jecanfield@fs.fed.us
Description: Proposal to restore aspen throught a variety of tools across the entire forest as funding and opportunity permits
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=41967
Location:
Fat Bike Winter Trails
CE
UNIT - Gallatin National Forest All Units. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin, Park, Sweet Grass. forest
wide.
- Land management planning
- Recreation management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/21/2014
Expected:07/2015
11/2015
Lisa Stoeffler
406-587-6705
lstoeffler@fs.fed.us
Description: Revise Standard A-10 of the Gallatin Travel Plan to allow for bicycles on winter motorized trails.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46183
Location:
UNIT - Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin, Madison, Meagher,
Park, Sweet Grass. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Gallatin National Forest - Forest-wide.
Steve Christiansen
Gallatin Forest Plan
- Land management planning
In Progress:
Expected:08/2015
08/2015
Amendment to Remove or
406-587-6750
Replace Outdated Management
schristiansen@fs.fed.us
Direction (Clean Up Amendmen Description:
The proposal would remove outdated, ineffective and/or unclear standards and other direction from the Gallatin
EA
National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (i.e. Forest Plan)
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=27201
Location:
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
UNIT - Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin, Madison, Meagher,
Park, Sweet Grass. LEGAL - All forest. Amendment would apply to the entire Gallatin National Forest.
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Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Ashland Post-fire Project
EIS
Project Purpose
CE
*UPDATED*
Power-line Access Road
Project (formerly identified as
the Pryor Mountain Access
Road project)
CE
Project Contact
R1 - Northern Region
UNIT - Ashland Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Powder River, Rosebud. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. Stag and Tobin Fire areas east of Ashland, MT.
Ronald Hecker
- Forest products
Completed
Actual: 08/31/2015
09/2015
701-842-2393
- Vegetation management
rhecker@fs.fed.us
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
Description: Salvage harvest up to 250 ac. of fire-killed ponderosa pine in the general vicinity of Whitetail Cabin and Holiday
Campground.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46929
UNIT - Ashland Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Powder River. LEGAL - Not Applicable. In the
northern portion of Ashland RD, in the general vicinity of Whitetail Cabin and Holiday Campground.
R1 - Northern Region
Beartooth Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Road management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 03/29/2012
Expected:05/2015
06/2015
Amy Waring
(406) 683-3948
amywaring@fs.fed.us
Description: Pursue the Powerline Road as legal permanent access into the northern portion of the Pryor Mountain land unit of
the Beartooth Ranger District.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38899
Location:
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
Expected
Implementation
Kim Reid
- Forest products
Cancelled
N/A
N/A
406-255-1413
- Vegetation management
kreid@fs.fed.us
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
Description: This project record is a duplicate of 47193 and shouldn't be referenced for information on the Ashland Post-fire
Project. To officially notify the public that this record has been cancelled, it will remain on the SOPA for 1 quarter
as cancelled.
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Decision
Ashland Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Location:
Phoenix Project
Planning Status
UNIT - Beartooth Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Carbon. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Pryor
Mountains land unit, southwester corner of the Crow Indian Reservation.
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Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Red Lodge Mountain Land
Exchange
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Beartooth Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Land ownership management
- Special use management
EA
In Progress:
Notice of Initiation 02/06/2015
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 10/2015
Expected:03/2016
Project Contact
03/2017
Traute Parrie
406-446-2103
tparrie@fs.fed.us
Description: An exchange of Federal and non-Federal lands of approximately equal value, located within and near the ski area
permit boundary. The exchange also includes the proposed acquisition of trail easements to improve public access
to nearby NFS lands.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46287
Location:
Stillwater Mining Company's
Benbow Exploration Portal &
Support Facilities Plan of
Operations
EA
*UPDATED*
- Minerals and Geology
Battle Ridge Campground
Hazard Tree Removal
CE
Actual: 08/31/2015
10/2015
Dan Seifert
406-446-4520
dseifert@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Beartooth Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Stillwater. LEGAL - Township 5 South,
Range 16 East, Montana PMM. Approximately 4 miles southwest of Dean, Montana in Stillwater County. It is
geographically located within the Little Rocky Creek drainage, a tributary to the Stillwater River.
Bozeman Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
R1 - Northern Region
Susan Lamont
- Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Expected:08/2015
10/2015
406-823-6976
- Forest products
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
slamont@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
Description: Remove hazard trees in campground area. Trees impacted from insect and disease may be removed for firewood
or commercial product.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45506
Location:
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
Completed
Description: Stillwater Mining Company has proposed constructing an exploration portal connected to an underground decline
and related surface support facilities on National Forest System lands in the Benbow area approximately 4 miles
southwest of Dean, MT
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45224
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
UNIT - Beartooth Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Carbon. LEGAL - Non-Federal
Lands:T7S,R19E,sec.22,S1/2SE1/4;sec.26,S1/2NE1/4 SE1/4;sec. 27,E1/2NE1/4 SE1/4;sec.35,NE1/4. Federal
Lands:T7S,R19E,portions of sec.25 and sec. 26. A land exchange proposal at Red Lodge Mountain Ski Area,
located on the Beartooth Ranger District of the Custer Gallatin National Forest, in Carbon County, Montana.
UNIT - Bozeman Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Battle
Ridge Campground, Bridger Canyon, Bozeman Ranger District.
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Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Spire Rock Campground
Hazard Tree Removal
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Bozeman Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
Expected:08/2015
Project Contact
12/2015
CE
Susan Lamont
406-823-6976
slamont@fs.fed.us
Description: Commercial and non-commercial removal of hazard trees in the Spire Rock Campground. Work would occur in
the winter of 2016.
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Fall River electric cooperative
Inc. storage yard expansion
UNIT - Bozeman Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Spire Rock
Campground approximately 25 miles south of Bozeman Montana on Hwy 191.
R1 - Northern Region
Hebgen Lake Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/01/2012
Expected:04/2013
CE
04/2013
Frank Cifala
406-932-5155
fcifala@fs.fed.us
Description: amendment to existing special use permit
Location:
North Hebgen Multiple
Resource Project
EA
Teri Seth
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:09/2016
06/2017
406-522-2539
- Forest products
Scoping Start 01/09/2015
tseth@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
Est. Comment Period Public
(other than forest products)
Notice 12/2015
- Fuels management
- Road management
Description: Fuels reduction in the wildland-urban interface, wildlife hab improvement in aspen, whitebark pine,etc. Treatment
methods include harvest or removal of commercial size and non-commercial trees with machinery, by hand and
through prescribed burning.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45491
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
UNIT - Hebgen Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin. LEGAL - S1/2 NE 1/4 Sec. 29,
T. 13 S., R. 5 E. A minor expansion of an authorized facility located on Hebgen Lake RD.
UNIT - Hebgen Lake Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Gallatin. LEGAL - Portions of T11S, R5E
Secs 4-10,15-22,27-34;T12S,R5E Secs 3-10,15-22,27-34;T13S,R5E, Secs 3,4,9,10;T11S,R4E secs 136;T12SS,R4E,Secs 1-12;T11S,R3E,Secs 1,2,111-14,23-25. From Tepee drainage on the Hebgen Lake Ranger
District south to the north shore of Hebgen Lake, west to Cabin Creek and east to the Yellowstone Park boundary.
Livingston Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R1 - Northern Region
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Park Electric Cop
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Livingston Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Special use management
CE
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 01/2013
Expected:03/2013
Project Contact
06/2013
Frank Cifala
406-932-5155
fcifala@fs.fed.us
Description: Install buried power distribution line in E. Fork Mill Creek roadway. Remove overhead line.
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
UNIT - Livingston Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Park. LEGAL - E 1/2 Section 13, T6S., R9E.,
NW 1/4 Section 17 and Section 18, T6S., R10E., PM., MT. East Fork Mill Creek, Yellowstone Ranger District.
R1 - Northern Region
Sioux Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Sioux Ranger District
- Special use management
Outfitter/Guide Permit Renewals
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 05/2015
Expected:07/2015
08/2015
CE
Meghan Reedy
605-797-4432
mrreedy@fs.fed.us
Description: The Sioux RD is renewing three priority use outfitter/guide permits totaling 155 service days in the Long Pines,
Ekalaka Hills and Chalk Buttes of Montana. The permits are day use only.
Location:
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Burnt Leather Ranch Burn
Special Use Permit
UNIT - Sioux Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Carter. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Long Pines,
Ekalaka Hills and Chalk Buttes of Montana.
R1 - Northern Region
Yellowstone Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 02/28/2013
CE
Expected:10/2014
10/2014
Frank Cifala
406-587-6713
frankcifala@fs.fed.us
Description: Reissuance of a special use permit for a burn
Location:
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Sweet Grass. LEGAL - NW1/4 Sec. 36,
T3S, R11E. West Boulder River Drainage.
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Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Yellowstone Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
East Paradise Range Recession - Grazing management
EA
In Progress:
Notice of Initiation 05/10/2013
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 04/2015
Expected:09/2015
Project Contact
07/2016
Chauntelle Rock
406-222-1892
crock@fs.fed.us
Description: This is to study six open grazing allotments and determine if reauthorization of grazing is warranted
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=41485
Location:
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Park. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Yellowstone Ranger District, south of I-90 each of Hwy. 89 S. Grazing allotments: Suce Cr C&H, 6-Mile Cr S.
C&H, Mill Creek C&H, Pine Cr C&H, Elbow C&H.
Peter Werner
406-587-6962
pgwerner@fs.fed.us
Lucky Minerals Inc. Emigrant
Project Plan of Operations for
drilling activities
- Minerals and Geology
CE
Description: Exploratory drilling to assess mineral presence at 9 sites on existing roads and 3 helicopter sites in Emigrant Creek
area. Total ground disturbance of approximately 0.3 acres.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47041
Location:
Main Boulder Station Volunteer
Host Sites
In Progress:
Scoping Start 06/03/2015
Expected:05/2016
05/2016
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Park. LEGAL - T6S, R8E, Section 36,
T7S, R8E, Section 1; T6S, R9E, Sections 5 and 6. Four unpatented mining claims on the west flank of Emigrant
Peak and five unpatented claims on the east side of Emigrant Creek.
- Facility management
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 04/2015
Expected:05/2015
06/2015
CE
Jane Ruchman
406-587-6966
jruchman@fs.fed.us
Description: Installation of 2 volunteer host RV pads and associated utility lines inside the Main Boulder administrative site.
Location:
Miminagish Organization Camp
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Park. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Within the
existing Main Boulder Station Administrative Site.
- Special use management
CE
In Progress:
Scoping Start 06/11/2012
Expected:07/2015
07/2015
Jane Ruchman
406-587-6966
jruchman@fs.fed.us
Description: Master Plan development and conversion of obsolete Special Use Permit to current format for the Miminagish
Organization Church Camp in the Main Boulder canyon, Yellowstone Ranger District
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38106
Location:
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Sweet Grass. LEGAL - T5S, R12E,
Section 26. Main Boulder Road.
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Custer Gallatin National Forest
Project Name
Custer Gallatin National Forest
Renfrow Water Transmission
Line
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R1 - Northern Region
Yellowstone Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 10/01/2011
Expected:08/2014
CE
Project Contact
09/2014
Frank Cifala
406-587-6713
fcifala@fs.fed.us
Description: Authorization of an existing historic water transmission line
Location:
UNIT - Yellowstone Ranger District. STATE - Montana. COUNTY - Sweet Grass. LEGAL - Unsurveyed,
Section 13, T5S, R12E. Main Boulder Drainage, vicinity of Miller Creek.
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This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
10/01/2015 04:22 am MT
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