Schedule of Proposed Action (SOPA)
07/01/2015 to 09/30/2015
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
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest, Forestwide (excluding Projects occurring in more than one Forest)
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext. 222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Monongahela Power Electrical
Powerline Reissue Special Use
Permit (GBR205002)
- Special use management
CE
Description: Reissue existing power lines, poles, and junction boxes on NFS lands to Mon Power. This will not authorize new
construction.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46693
*NEW LISTING*
Location:
Wildlife Openings
EA
Completed
Actual: 05/13/2015
05/2015
UNIT - Monongahela National Forest All Units. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier, Nicholas,
Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Throughout the Forest on various Districts.
See land List and Map.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
On Hold
N/A
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:
Monongahela National Forest
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
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.
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Todd Hess
304-636-1800
tahess@fs.fed.us
Atlantic Broadband (PENN)
Telephone and Fiber Optic
Special Use Permit
- Special use management
CE
Description: Issue a special use permit for existing aerial telephone and fiber optic cable. Permit was issued to Charter
Communication but sold lines to Atlantic Broadband. No new construction is proposed.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46194
*NEW LISTING*
Location:
Big Mountain
EA
Completed
Actual: 04/03/2015
04/2015
UNIT - Cheat Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Tucker. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Various
locations on Cheat Ranger District.
Kristine Vollmer
04/2016
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
In Progress:
Expected:12/2015
304-257-4488
- Forest products
Comment Period Public Notice
kvollmer@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
Location:
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.
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 x222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Brushy Hollow Water Assoc.
Reissue Special Use Permit
(POT204001)
- Special use management
CE
Description: Reissue a special use permit for a well/spring box, 1,500 gallon water tank, and water pipeline. No new
construction is authorized.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46305
*NEW LISTING*
Location:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
Completed
Actual: 04/03/2015
04/2015
UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pendleton. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pendleton County / Upper Tract Quad / PLSS US Tract 722 & 1186.
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Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Laneville Bridge Replacement
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
R9 - Eastern Region
Cheat/Potomac Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
- Road management
CE
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
Expected:08/2015
Project Contact
10/2015
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:
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.
Todd Hess
Mountain Water Assoc. Reissue - Special use management
Completed
Actual: 04/03/2015
04/2015
Special Use Permit
304-636-1800 x222
(POT205004)
tahess@fs.fed.us
Description: Reissue a special use permit for use of well/spring box and water pipeline. No additional construction will be
CE
authorized. ATV use over NFS lands for maintenance will be scoped.
*NEW LISTING*
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46304
Location:
Resistant Beech Orchard
Research
CE
UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pendleton. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pendleton County / Circleville Quad / PLSS US Tract 196.
- Vegetation management
(other than forest products)
- Research and Development
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
Expected:07/2015
07/2015
Jeff Kochenderfer
304-257-4488
jdkochenderfer@fs.fed.
us
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:
Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks
Telephone & Fiber Optic
Reissue Special Use Permit
(POT205006 & POT205007)
CE
*NEW LISTING*
- Special use management
Completed
Actual: 04/03/2015
04/2015
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 x222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Description: Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks has held a special use permit for telephone (RUS) for many years. This project
would reissue the existing use and facilities with no new construction.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=46342
Location:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
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.
UNIT - Potomac Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pendleton, Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. Various locations on Potomac Ranger District.
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Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
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:05/2016
06/2016
304-846-2695
- Forest products
NOI in Federal Register
jbard@fs.fed.us
- Vegetation management
07/30/2014
(other than forest products)
Est. DEIS NOA in Federal
- Road management
Register 09/2015
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:
Lower Williams Wildlife
Enhancement
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.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
EA
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/25/2012
Est. Comment Period Public
Notice 09/2015
Expected:01/2016
06/2016
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:
Monongahela National Forest
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
UNIT - Gauley Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Nicholas. LEGAL - Not Applicable. Music
Run is located an estimated 5 miles northwest of Richwood, WV.
Greenbrier Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
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R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Greenbrier Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext. 222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Site
Survey Testing Special Use
Permit
- Special use management
CE
Description: Site survey and testing. Includes such activities as field routing, environmental resources, cultural resources, and
civil surveys in preparation of a possible future corridor route for a natural gas transmission pipeline.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45864
Location:
Mower Tract Restoration
EA
*NEW LISTING*
EA
Actual: 04/22/2015
04/2015
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas, Randolph. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. Greenbrier Ranger District (see maps).
Shane Jones
10/2015
- Recreation management
Developing Proposal
Expected:10/2015
304-456-3335, 114
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Est. Notice of Initiation 07/2015
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
Location:
Tygart Chestnut Ridge
Completed
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.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
- Forest products
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
Expected:12/2015
01/2016
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:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Randolph. LEGAL - Not Applicable. On
the Greenbrier Ranger District.
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Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Monongahela National Forest
Greenbrier Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one District)
Upper Greenbrier North
Kristine Vollmer
05/2015
- Recreation management
Completed
Actual: 05/14/2015
304-257-4488
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
03/04/2013
kvollmer@fs.fed.us
- Forest products
11/28/2012
- Vegetation management
08/15/2012
(other than forest products)
03/05/2012
- Watershed management
- Road management
Description: This project proposal includes: commercial timber harvest; timber stand improvement; spruce restoration; road
decommissioning, riparian improvement, trail relocation, culvert replacement, and dispersed recreation site
management.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=28198
EA
Location:
WV DOH Cass Rockfall
Relocate Road GBR202004
UNIT - Greenbrier Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Upper Greenbrier Watershed. Durbin, Frank, + Bartow are at south end ; Shavers Mt is west, and WV/VA state
line is east.
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 06/15/2015
Expected:07/2015
08/2015
CE
*NEW LISTING*
Description: WV DOH desires to relocate highway 66 near Cass, WV and remove an uphill portion of the right-of-way to
prevent future rock slides. This is known as S338-66-12.65 with the State.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47143
Location:
West Fork of Greenbrier Rail
With Trail Development
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 / Cass Quad / US Tract 336.
- Recreation management
- Special use management
EA
In Progress:
Comment Period Public Notice
10/16/2014
Expected:12/2015
04/2016
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:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
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.
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Monongahela National Forest
Project Name
Monongahela National Forest
District)
Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Alternative Route Site Survey
Testing Special Use Permit
GBR205003 Amend3
CE
*NEW LISTING*
Project Purpose
Decision
Expected
Implementation
- Special use management
In Progress:
Scoping Start 06/22/2015
Expected:08/2015
Project Contact
R9 - Eastern Region
Marlinton/White Sulphur Ranger District (excluding Projects occurring in more than one
09/2015
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext. 222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Description: Perform cultural, environmental, and civil surveys along an alternative route for a proposed natural gas
transmission pipeline. This will be an amendment to an existing authorization for the same activity known as
GBR205003 Amendment 3.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=47198
Location:
Brushy Mountain Ruffed
Grouse Habitat Management
Planning Status
UNIT - Marlinton Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Marlinton Ranger District, US Tracts 652B, 51C, 366, 308, & 397-I.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants
Developing Proposal
Est. Scoping Start 07/2015
Expected:10/2015
12/2015
CE
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:
Lake Sherwood Boat Rental
Concession
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.
- Special use management
Completed
CE
Actual: 05/15/2015
05/2015
Matthew Edwards
304-799-4334
mjedwards@fs.fed.us
Description: The Forest Service proposes to issue a 5-year special use permit to operate the boat rental at Lake Sherwood
Recreation Area.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45475
Location:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. The permitted area would be the existing boat rental location at the Lake Sherwood Recreation Area.
Lake Sherwood is located north of the town of White Sulphur Springs off of SR 92.
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Monongahela National Forest
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
Todd Hess
304-636-1800 ext 222
tahess@fs.fed.us
Polar Bear Plunge (CYAC)
Recreation Event Special Use
Permit
- Special use management
CE
Description: Recreation Event to raise money for Child & Youth Advocacy Center of abused children. Event is a polar bear
plunge in March at Blue Bend Recreation Area.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45781
Location:
Tea Creek Phase II
In Progress:
Scoping Start 11/19/2014
Expected:01/2015
03/2015
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Greenbrier
County / Anthony Quad / PLSS US Tracts 518 & 532. Blue Bend Recreation Area and Campground.
- Recreation management
CE
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/09/2015
Expected:08/2015
08/2015
Matthew Edwards
304-799-4334
mjedwards@fs.fed.us
Description: Trail maintenance, improvements and relocation are proposed in the Tea Cr Trail system. These activities would
reroute some steep sections of trail, harden or relocate trail where currently in wet areas and conduct other
maintenance activities.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45480
Location:
Two-Mile Road Closure
UNIT - Marlinton Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
The Tea Cr trail system is located north of the Highland Scenic Highway and east of the Williams River.
- Road management
On Hold
CE
N/A
N/A
Rondi Fischer
304-799-4334
rfischer@fs.fed.us
Description: Proposed closure of Two-Mile Road due to considerable erosion and natural resource damage. The nearby OneMile Road will be opened during the same time period.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=30944
Location:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
UNIT - White Sulphur Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Greenbrier. LEGAL - Not
Applicable. This project is located directly northwest of the community of Neola, WV.
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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
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
Expected:07/2015
08/2015
CE
*NEW LISTING*
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:
UNIT - Marlinton Ranger District. STATE - West Virginia. COUNTY - Pocahontas. LEGAL - Not Applicable.
Pocahontas County / Paddy Knob Quad / US Tract 628.
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
Location:
07/01/2015 04:35 am MT
In Progress:
Scoping Start 04/09/2015
Expected:09/2015
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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Project Name
Project Purpose
Planning Status
Decision
Expected
Implementation
Project Contact
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