Schedule of Proposed Action (SOPA)
01/01/2016 to 03/31/2016
Monongahela 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
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest, Forestwide (excluding Projects occurring in more than one Forest)
Wildlife Openings
EA
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
On Hold
N/A
Project Contact
N/A
Catherine Johnson
304-636-1800 ext 170
catherinejohnson@fs.fe
d.us
Description: This proposal will address maintenance of wildlife openings across the Forest through mowing, prescribed fire,
herbicide, and other treatments, and will include long-term strategies for determining, prioritizing, and treating
existing and new areas.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=31823
Location:
UNIT - Monongahela National Forest All Units. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Grant, Greenbrier, Nicholas,
Pendleton, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Tucker, Webster. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Openings are scattered
across the Forest in Grant, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Tucker, and
Webster Counties, WV.
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Big Mountain
Elizabeth Tichner
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:05/2016
06/2016
304-257-4488
- Forest products
Comment Period Public Notice
etichner02@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
02/10/2015
(other than forest products)
- Watershed management
- Road management
Description: Improve oak regeneration and stand structural and age diversity, and increase mast for wildlife through a variety of
methods, including commercial and noncommercial treatments. Enhance wildlife and aquatic habitats for a
number of species.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36612
EA
*UPDATED*
Location:
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UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pendleton. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Southeast part of Cheat-Potomac Ranger District. North Fork South Branch Potomac watershed. South of Spruce
Knob, North of Virginia State line.
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Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Laneville Bridge Replacement
Project Purpose
- Road management
CE
*UPDATED*
Expected
Implementation
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 01/2016
Expected:04/2016
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
04/2016
John Barger
304-636-1800x232
jbarger@fs.fed.us
Description: Replace the Laneville bridge. Construct short sections of new access roads and rehabilitate existing access roads.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=36613
Location:
Resistant Beech Orchard
Research
Decision
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
CE
*UPDATED*
Planning Status
UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Randolph. LEGAL - Not Applicable. East
of Laneville, at the beginning of FR 19, over Red Creek. Near the southwest border of the Dolly Sods Wilderness.
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
- Research and Development
Cancelled
N/A
Jeff Kochenderfer
304-257-4488
jdkochenderfer@fs.fed.
us
N/A
Description: Plant beech seedlings that have undergone genetic testing for resistance to beech scale insect for ongoing
research. The objective is to eventually establish up to 300 resistant beech trees, comprising 25 genotypes, for
forest restoration.
Location:
UNIT - Cheat Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Tucker. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Over 4 to
8 acres at the Nursery Bottom at the Fernow Research/Cheat Ranger District office in Parsons, WV.
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext.222
tahess@fs.fed.us
WV DNR Otter Creek Dam
Special Use Permit Renewal
(CHT202006)
- Special use management
CE
Description: Authorize a new special use permit for the continued us of a dam and liming station located at Otter Creek.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48249
*NEW LISTING*
Location:
In Progress:
Scoping Start 09/02/2015
Expected:01/2016
02/2016
UNIT - Cheat Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Randolph. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Randolph County / Bowden Quad / PLSS US Tract 25.
WV DOH Bickle Run Culvert
and Bridge Repair S.P. 42-33/85.30 / CHT202005
- Special use management
CE
Description: Issue a new special use permit to WVDOH for repairs on Bickle Run bridge and culvert.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47542
*UPDATED*
Location:
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In Progress:
Scoping Start 07/22/2015
Expected:02/2016
02/2016
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext.222
tahess@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Cheat Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Randolph. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Randolph Co. / Bowden Quad / US Tract 860.
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Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
WV Division of Homeland
Security & Emergency
Management Special Use
Permit SUP3 Amendment 4
CE
*NEW LISTING*
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R9 - Eastern Region
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 07/03/2015
Expected:01/2016
Project Contact
02/2016
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext.222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Description: Amend the special use permit to add another flood repeater site at Smoke Mountain.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48252
Location:
UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pendleton. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pendleton County / Upper Tract Quad / PLSS US Tract 207.
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Gauley Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Big Rock Project
Jane Bard
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:11/2016
12/2016
304-846-2695
- Forest products
NOI in Federal Register
jbard@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
09/17/2015
(other than forest products)
Est. DEIS NOA in Federal
- Road management
Register 03/2016
Description: The proposal is to provide diverse early successional forest (clearcut w/reserves 1342 ac), improve forest health
and growth (traditional thin 702 ac and helicopter thin 491 ac) and provide water sources for wildlife (creation of 20
vernal pools).
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=44762
EIS
Location:
Chicken Camp Restoration
Project
UNIT - Gauley Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Nicholas, Webster. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. The project are is within the Cranberry River watershed north of Richwood, WV, in Nicholas and
Webster Counties.
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
Completed
Actual: 10/22/2015
CE
*UPDATED*
William Schiffer
304-846-2122
wschiffer@fs.fed.us
Description: Renovation of user created camping sites along the Williams River floodplain
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47692
Location:
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11/2015
UNIT - Gauley Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Webster. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Between Williams River Road (WV Rt.46) and Williams River approximately 1/2 mile west of Forest Service Rd
101 and WV Rt.46.
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Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Lower Williams Wildlife
Enhancement
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R9 - Eastern Region
Gauley Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
EA
*UPDATED*
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/25/2012
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 04/2016
Expected:11/2016
Project Contact
04/2017
Kim Tarter
304-846-2122
kimtarter@fs.fed.us
Description: Proposed vegetation alteration and wildlife habitat enhancement on an estimated 140 acres. The project would
create grassy and early-successional habitat, reduce the mid-story to diversify forest structure and composition,
and enhance native grasses.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38797
Location:
Music Run ROW
UNIT - Gauley Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Webster. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Proposed activities are scattered throughout the Lower Williams river area, an estimated six to ten miles northnortheast of Richwood, WV.
- Special use management
CE
In Progress:
Scoping Start 01/09/2014
Expected:01/2015
02/2015
William Schiffer
304-846-2122
wschiffer@fs.fed.us
Description: The Monongahela National Forest received an application for right-of-way access to a private in-holding
surrounded by National Forest.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=42918
Location:
UNIT - Gauley Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Nicholas. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Music
Run is located an estimated 5 miles northwest of Richwood, WV.
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Greenbrier Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Mower Tract Restoration
Shane Jones
- Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Expected:05/2016
08/2016
304-456-3335, 114
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Est. Scoping Start 02/2016
scjones@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
- Watershed management
Description: Prep sites; plant natives; create wetlands; create/maintain linear wildlife openings; (re)construct trails; develop
trailheads; decommission roads; place large woody material in streams; restore spruce by thinning and crop tree
release.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46804
EA
*UPDATED*
Location:
01/01/2016 05:46 am MT
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas, Randolph. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. Approximately 5 miles NE of Durbin. The project area encompasses the tract bought by the USFS in
the late 1980s on Shavers and Cheat Mountain. In Forest Plan Management Prescription Area 4.1.
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Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Tygart Chestnut Ridge
EA
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R9 - Eastern Region
Greenbrier Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
- Forest products
*UPDATED*
In Progress:
Scoping Start 07/22/2015
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 02/2016
Expected:05/2016
Project Contact
10/2016
Jack Tribble
304-456-3335 x 116
jtribble@fs.fed.us
Description: Enhance wildlife habitat over approximately 600 acres by enhancing existing and creating new linear wildlife
openings, restoring running buffalo clover, creating permanent and vernal wetlands and habitat for bats, and
liming, using timber as a tool.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45442
Location:
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Randolph. LEGAL - Not Applicable. On
the Greenbrier Ranger District.
Vandevander New Road Rightof-Way Special Use Permit
(GBR206007)
- Special use management
CE
Description: Authorize a new road to be built in a safer location to access private property.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=48275
*NEW LISTING*
Location:
West Fork of Greenbrier Rail
With Trail Development
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/27/2015
Expected:04/2016
05/2016
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext.222
tahess@fs.fed.us
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pocahontas County / Thornwood Quad / US Tract 38B.
- Recreation management
- Special use management
On Hold
N/A
EA
N/A
Kathleen GoodrichArling
304-636-1800, ext.
220
kgoodricharling@fs.fed.
us
Description: Grant the West Virginia State Rail Authority a long-term easement and authorization to return 27.2 miles of
railroad right-of-way to active railroad status, and construct a parallel 21-mile trail segment.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45223
Location:
Monongahela National Forest
District)
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UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas, Randolph. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. 27.2 miles of railroad right-of-way from Durbin to Elk River Junction, WV.
Marlinton/White Sulphur Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one
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R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
District)
Brushy Mountain Ruffed
Grouse Habitat Management
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R9 - Eastern Region
Marlinton/White Sulphur Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/14/2015
Expected:03/2016
05/2016
CE
*UPDATED*
Project Contact
James McCormick
304-799-4334 x25
jamesmccormick@fs.fe
d.us
Description: The proposal is to create early successional habitat scattered in the project area in order to create habitat for ruffed
grouse. A variety of treatments are being considered, including clear-cutting, prescribed burning, and mulching.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=44193
Location:
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. Sites are located within the Brushy Mountain Ruffed Grouse Management Area, directly northeast of
White Sulphur Springs, WV.
Kevin Taylor
Upper Meadow Prescribed Burn - Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
N/A
On Hold
N/A
304-536-2144
Vegetation
management
CE
kltaylor@fs.fed.us
(other than forest products)
- Fuels management
Description: Prescribed fire is proposed for multiple areas totaling an estimated 3600 acres. This will be a landscape scale
ecosystem restoration effort in WV and VA, in conjunction with the Fire Learning Network.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=30759
Location:
WV DOH Bird Run Bridge
Repair MAR202001
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. This project is located along the WV-VA border, an estimated 13 miles southeast of Marlinton WV and
directly north of Lake Sherwood.
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/10/2015
CE
Expected:02/2016
03/2016
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext.222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Description: WV DOH desires to close the bridge of highway 84 over Bird Run, build a temporary bridge, repair old bridge, and
have traffic return to the normal route over highway 84.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47144
Location:
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UNIT - Marlinton Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pocahontas County / Paddy Knob Quad / US Tract 628.
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Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
District)
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Marlinton/White Sulphur Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one
Matthew Edwards
304-536-2144
mjedwards@fs.fed.us
WV Restoration Venture Anthony Creek Dispersed
Areas
- Recreation management
- Watershed management
CE
Description: Restoration and/or closure of 7 user-created recreation sites along State Route 16 adjacent to Anthony Creek.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46572
*UPDATED*
Location:
In Progress:
Scoping Start 08/14/2015
Expected:01/2016
05/2016
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. 7 dispersed recreation sites over approximately 3 acres along State Route 16 and adjacent to Anthony
Creek, up to 1.5 miles from Blue Bend Recreation Area.
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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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