The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins Field Office (RFO) is issuing the finding of no significant impact (FONSI) and decision record (DR) for the 8,529 acre Powder Mountain Spike Treatment project.
The BLM, along with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) and Little Snake River Conservation District (LSRCD), plans to conduct a mountain shrub (bitterbrush) enhancement treatment on approximately 3,200 acres of federal lands within the project area during the next two to three-years.
The project area is approximately 30 miles west of Baggs, Wyo. The proposed treatment will occur within the Powder Mountain #10519 grazing allotment.
The treatment was proposed and designed jointly by the BLM and WGFD to improve habitat conditions in the Baggs mule deer herd crucial winter range. It is designed to enhance the health of existing sagebrush/mountain shrub communities by diversifying the age class structure and arrangement, increasing herbaceous and forb production and encouraging bitterbrush production and vigor. The treatment will also reduce the potential for catastrophic wildfire by decreasing existing fuel loads, creating natural fuel breaks, rejuvenating decadent mountain shrub communities and improving upland vegetative health and diversity. The Powder Mountain project area is a popular recreation and hunting destination and includes antelope, elk, and mule deer crucial winter ranges which will benefit from the treatment.
The BLM, along with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) and Little Snake River Conservation District (LSRCD), plans to conduct a mountain shrub (bitterbrush) enhancement treatment on approximately 3,200 acres of federal lands within the project area during the next two to three-years.
The project area is approximately 30 miles west of Baggs, Wyo. The proposed treatment will occur within the Powder Mountain #10519 grazing allotment.
The treatment was proposed and designed jointly by the BLM and WGFD to improve habitat conditions in the Baggs mule deer herd crucial winter range. It is designed to enhance the health of existing sagebrush/mountain shrub communities by diversifying the age class structure and arrangement, increasing herbaceous and forb production and encouraging bitterbrush production and vigor. The treatment will also reduce the potential for catastrophic wildfire by decreasing existing fuel loads, creating natural fuel breaks, rejuvenating decadent mountain shrub communities and improving upland vegetative health and diversity. The Powder Mountain project area is a popular recreation and hunting destination and includes antelope, elk, and mule deer crucial winter ranges which will benefit from the treatment.
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