Schedule of Proposed Action (SOPA)
04/01/2016 to 06/30/2016
Payette 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
R4 - Intermountain Region, Occurring in more than one Forest (excluding Regionwide)
Middle Fork Zone Elk
Monitoring Project
- Special use management
Completed
Actual: 01/06/2016
01/2016
EA
*UPDATED*
Jeff Hunteman
208-756-5246
comments-intermtnsalmonchallis@fs.fed.us
Description: The proposed action would permit Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to conduct helicopter landings in
the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness through a special use permit.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47584
Location:
UNIT - Salmon-Cobalt Ranger District, Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District, Middle Fork Ranger District, Krassel
Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Custer, Idaho, Lemhi, Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Project
area is the IDFG Middle Fork Zone located within the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest, Forestwide (excluding Projects occurring in more than one Forest)
Outfitted and Guided
Snowmobile Tours Project
- Special use management
Completed
EA
*UPDATED*
11/2016
Jane Cropp
208-634-0757
jcropp@fs.fed.us
Description: Interest in guided snowmobile tours has been growing. Currently there is only one permitted snowmobiling O&G on
the Forest. This project would provide the public the opportunity to use a licensed O&G to take them snowmobiling
on the Forest.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46176
Location:
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Actual: 03/10/2016
UNIT - Payette National Forest All Units. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams, Idaho, Valley, Washington.
LEGAL - Not Applicable. This analysis is located across the entire Forest. Three general areas, to allow
snowmobiling outfitting and guiding opportunities, have been defined.
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Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest, Forestwide (excluding Projects occurring in more than one Forest)
Wildlife Conservation Strategy
(Forest Plan Amendment) [101]
- Land management planning
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
EIS
*UPDATED*
In Progress:
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
01/21/2011
Est. FEIS NOA in Federal
Register 01/2017
Project Contact
Expected:07/2017
07/2017
Patricia Anderson
Soucek
208-634-0812
psoucek@fs.fed.us
Description: Short- and long-term management strategies and priorities for maintaining and restoring habitats associated with
terrestrial wildlife species.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=28633
Location:
UNIT - Payette National Forest All Units. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams, Idaho, Valley, Washington.
LEGAL - Not Applicable. Payette National Forest.
R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest, Occurring in more than one District (excluding Forestwide)
2015 West Zone Range
Improvement Projects
- Grazing management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 07/30/2015
Expected:05/2016
CE
*UPDATED*
04/01/2016 04:08 am MT
Robert Bumgarner
208-549-4262
rbumgarner@fs.fed.us
Description: This project proposes to repair, rebuild and improve seven spring developments and four livestock watering
reservoirs
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47293
Location:
Payette National Forest
07/2016
UNIT - Council Ranger District, Weiser Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams, Washington.
LEGAL - Not Applicable. These eleven projects are located approximately 9 miles west, 15 miles north and 12
miles east of Caimbridge, Idaho.
Council Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest
Project Name
Payette National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R4 - Intermountain Region
Council Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Middle Fork Weiser River
Landscape Restoration Project
EIS
*UPDATED*
Mark Fox
- Recreation management
In Progress:
Expected:08/2016
08/2016
208-253-0164
- Forest products
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
mrfox@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
02/20/2016
(other than forest products)
Est. FEIS NOA in Federal
- Fuels management
Register 06/2016
- Watershed management
Description: This project is approximately 50,000 acres and is in the Weiser-Little Salmon Headwaters Collaborative Forest
Restoration Project area. Opportunities for forest and watershed restoration will be assessed.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=41687
Location:
Sheep Creek Bull Trout
Exclosure Fence
UNIT - Council Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams. LEGAL - T14N R1E AND R2E; T15N R1E
AND R2E; T16N R1E AND R2E; T17N R2E, BM. Middle Fork of the Weiser River Watershed, 10 miles southeast
of Council, Idaho.
- Grazing management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 07/30/2015
Expected:05/2016
07/2016
CE
Robert Bumgarner
208-549-4262
rbumgarner@fs.fed.us
Description: This project proposes to rebuild and improve an exclosure fence to improve protection of bull trout spawning
habitat from livestock grazing.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47306
*UPDATED*
Location:
Payette National Forest
Project Contact
UNIT - Council Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Approximately
18 miles southeast of Council, Idaho.
R4 - Intermountain Region
Krassel Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Big Creek Restoration and
Access Management Project
- Recreation management
- Road management
EA
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/21/2014
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 05/2016
Expected:02/2017
03/2017
Anthony Botello
208-634-0601
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: The Proposed Action would implement a range of restoration activities, including route
decommissioning/rehabilitation, route designation and improvements, stream crossing improvement, and
educational/interpretive improvements.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45084
Location:
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UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho, Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. The
portion of the project area within MA 13 lies within Big Creek drainage, a tributary of the Middle Fork Salmon River,
and the 10 acres within MA 12 lie within the South Fork Salmon River drainage.
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Project Name
Payette National Forest
Big Creek Road Plan of
Operation Project
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R4 - Intermountain Region
Krassel Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Minerals and Geology
EA
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/21/2014
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 05/2016
Expected:02/2017
Project Contact
02/2017
Anthony Botello
208-630-0601
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: The Big Creek Road Plan of Operation Project would authorize the use of roads to conduct exploration and
development
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46053
Location:
Crater Lake Access Road
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. The roughly
36,206 acre project area is located principally in the Big Creek, Smith Creek, and Logan Creek drainages on the
Payette National Forest, approximately 7 miles north and east of Yellow Pine.
- Special use management
Completed
Actual: 03/18/2016
06/2016
CE
*UPDATED*
Description: The proposed action would issue a special use authorization to private land owners for use and maintenance of a
road crossing National Forest land. The road is approximately 1/2 mile. A parking area and turn around would be
included.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46345
Location:
Four Mile Prescribed Fire
CE
*NEW LISTING*
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - The road begins in Township 20
North, Range 9 East, section 30 and ends in Township 20 North, Range 8 East, section 25; Boise Meridian.
Motorized access would be authorized on road 503408900 (aka red Metal Mine Road) from Profile Gap road
50340 to a parking turn around area for landowner ingress and egress to private property.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
- Fuels management
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 04/2016
Expected:06/2016
08/2016
Anthony Botello
209-295-4251
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: The Four Mile Prescribed Fire would apply fire to approximately 9500 acres of National Forest lands over the next
10-15 years for the purpose of improving elk habitat while retaining habitat and cover for small mammals and
cavity nesting birds.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48826
Location:
04/01/2016 04:08 am MT
Kathryn Nash
208-634-0416
knash@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. This project is
located within the Four Mile Creek and Cougar Creek drainages of the South Fork of the Salmon River watershed,
southeast of McCall, Idaho.
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Project Name
Payette National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R4 - Intermountain Region
Krassel Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Golden Meadows Exploration
Project
- Minerals and Geology
Completed
EA
Actual: 01/14/2016
12/03/2013
10/01/2012
01/2016
Location:
Silver Run Bulk Sampling
Project
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 15,
13, 14, Township 18 North, Range 9 East, and Section 35, Township 19 North, Range 9 East, Boise Meridian. The
project is located in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine Mining District in central Idaho, approximately 14 miles east of Yellow
Pine, Idaho.
- Minerals and Geology
Cancelled
N/A
N/A
CE
Location:
Sugar Creek Storm Treatment
and Ford Rehabilitation
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - T. 17 N., R. 6 E., Section 14;
Boise Meridian, Valley County, Idaho. Silver Creek a Tributary of South Fork Salmon River.
- Watershed management
- Road management
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 04/2016
Expected:06/2016
CE
07/2016
Anthony Botello
209-295-4251
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: This project would implement storm damage risk reduction road restoration treatments on approximately 4.5 miles
of FS Road 51883 and restore the road ford crossing at Sugar Creek for the protection of endangered fish habitat
in the adjacent stream.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48822
Location:
04/01/2016 04:08 am MT
Anthony Botello
208-634-0601
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: The proposed action would conduct bulk sampling of a silver deposit in order to evaluate feasibility of long term
mining.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=39058
*UPDATED*
Payette National Forest
Anthony Botello
208-634-0601
abbotello@fs.fed.us
Description: The proposed action would conduct exploration drilling in 24 drill areas within NFS land. Roughly 128 drill pads
would be used to conduct drilling activities. Associated activities include access road construction and
authorization and rock source.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fs-usda-pop.php/?project=37756
*UPDATED*
*NEW LISTING*
Project Contact
UNIT - Krassel Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. This project is
located approximately 7 air miles SW of Yellowpine, Idaho within the Sugar Creek watershed, a tributary to the
East Fork South Fork Salmon River.
McCall Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest
Project Name
Payette National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R4 - Intermountain Region
McCall Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Lisa Klinger
208-634-0401
lklinger@fs.fed.us
Brundage Mountain Resort
Cat-Ski Outfitter and Guide
Permit Reissuance
- Recreation management
- Special use management
EA
Description: The Forest Service proposes to authorize Brundage Mountain Resort a special use authorization for a term of 10
years. This includes a seasonal yurt, addition/modifications of snowcat routes, and allocation of 860 service days to
the resort.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46256
*UPDATED*
Location:
Commercial Firewood Project
In Progress:
Comment Period Public Notice
12/17/2015
Expected:09/2016
10/2016
UNIT - McCall Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Cat-Ski program
is authorized approximately 65 miles of over-snow routes generally north and northwest of the Brundage Mountain
Resort.
- Forest products
Cancelled
N/A
N/A
CE
*UPDATED*
Description: The proposal would harvest approximately 47 acres of trees in the Upper Elkhorn Creek drainage, 52 acres in the
Upper Payette river drainage (Cloochman Saddle Area), and 78 acres in the Lake Creek drainage (Nethker Area)
of dead trees.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=43842
Location:
Idaho Angler McCall (dba Fly
Fish McCall) Outfitter and
Guide Special Use
Reauthorization
CE
*NEW LISTING*
04/01/2016 04:08 am MT
UNIT - McCall Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho, Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable. The
proposal would harvest approximately 47 acres of trees in the Upper Elkhorn Creek drainage, 52 acres in the
Upper Payette river drainage, and 78 acres in the Lake Creek drainage.
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 03/17/2016
Expected:04/2016
05/2016
Lisa Klinger
208-634-0401
lklinger@fs.fed.us
Description: This project is considering the reauthorization of Idaho Angler McCall to continue to offer outfitting and guiding
services specializing in high mountain lake and stream fishing operations on the New Meadows, McCall, and
Krassel Ranger Districts.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48821
Location:
Payette National Forest
Debbie Ellis
208-347-0314
dellis@fs.fed.us
UNIT - McCall Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams, Idaho, Valley. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
This outfitter operates in numerous lakes and streams in 8 operating areas located in Valley, Adams, and Idaho
County on the Payette National Forest.
New Meadows Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R4 - Intermountain Region
Payette National Forest
Project Name
Payette National Forest
Rapid River Trails
EA
*UPDATED*
Project Purpose
CE
*NEW LISTING*
- Recreation management
- Special area management
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
R4 - Intermountain Region
N/A
N/A
Phillip Burgess
208-634-0325
pburgess@fs.fed.us
Completed
Actual: 03/11/2016
05/2016
Phillip Burgess
208-634-0325
pburgess@fs.fed.us
Description: Recover the economic value of severely damaged merchantable trees and facilitate reforestation of fire damaged
areas while maintain wildlife, watershed and other important natural and cultural resource values in the fire
affected area.
UNIT - New Meadows Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Idaho. LEGAL - Township 22 North, Range
2 East, sections 30 and 31, Boise Meridian, Idaho County, Idaho. 3 Miles east of Riggins, Idaho.
R4 - Intermountain Region
Weiser Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
EA
In Progress:
Comment Period Public Notice
06/01/2015
Expected:06/2016
06/2016
Phillip Burgess
208-634-0325
pburgess@fs.fed.us
Description: The purpose of this analysis will determine whether grazing cattle is an acceptable use on this allotment and if so
authorize cattle grazing on the allotment.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47039
Location:
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On Hold
Project Contact
UNIT - New Meadows Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Adams. LEGAL - R1W, T21N, Sec. 28, 29,
31, 32; R1W, T20N, Sec. 6, 7; R2W, T21N, Sec. 36. New trail construction and/or reconstruction in R2W, T20N,
Sec. 1 and/or R1W, T30N, Sec. 6. Around the southern end of the designated Rapid River Wild River Corridor in
the western portion of New Meadows Ranger District.
Surdam On/Off Range Allotment - Grazing management
Management Planning
*UPDATED*
Expected
Implementation
Description: Change trail use designation in and crossing Rapid R Wild River Corridor to non-motorized / -mechanized;
investigate joining trails designated 2-wheel motorized to the W and E of the Corridor; and 2-wheel motorized
access to Lick Cr Lookout.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36507
Location:
Payette National Forest
Decision
New Meadows Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Location:
Tepee Springs Salvage
Planning Status
UNIT - Weiser Ranger District. STATE - Idaho. COUNTY - Washington. LEGAL - Legal location for the
allotment is Township 15 North, Range 4 West, Section 31 South ½ and Range 5 Section 36 SE ¼ Boise
Meridian. Located on the Weizer Ranger District in Washington County, Idaho.
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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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