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SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE

Forest Plan Amendments for Motorized Access Management within the Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Recovery Zones

Grandmother Mountain Land Exchange
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - 10/2007 (1.8mb)
- Public Notice - 03/2007 (18k)
- Environmental Assessment - 03/2007 (2.4mb)

Fry Emergence Amendment To The Forest Plan
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - 06/2005 (2.1mb)
- Environmental Assessment - 04/2005 (1.4mb)
- Scoping Letter - 03/2005 (70k)
- Vicinity Map - 03/2005 (370k)

BONNERS FERRY RANGER DISTRICT

Ruby Copper Project
- Decision Notice Cover Letter - 12/2008 (55k)
- Decision Notice - 12/2008 (580k)
- EA Errata (wildlife) - 12/2008 (30k)
- Environmental Assessment - 07/2008 (3.0mb)

Twin Skin HFRA - 05/2008
- Decision Notice Cover Letter (180k)
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) (1.9mb)
- Cover Letter (128k)
- Environmental Assessment (EA) (2.0mb)
- Environmental Assessment Errata (430k)
- Appendix A - Fire and Fuels (525k)
- Appendix B - Other Issues (1.2mb)
- Appendix C - Activities (83k)
- Appendix D - Objection Process (25k)
- Appendix E - List of Preparers (84k)
- Appendix F - List of Entities Contacted (40k)
- Appendix G - Literature Citations (116k)

Templeman HFRA - 01/2008
- Cover Letter (126k)
- Decision Notice Cover Letter - 04/2008 (27k)
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 04/2008 (360k)
- Environmental Assessment (EA) (4.7mb)
- Environmental Assessment Errata Sheets - 04/2008 (350k)
- Appendix A - Soils (3.4mb)
- Appendix B - Fire - Risk to Life and Property (4.4mb)
- Appendix C - Other Issues (2.3mb)
- Appendix D - Activities (33k)
- Appendix E - List of Preparers (22k)
- Appendix F - List of Entities Contacted (28k)

Northern Prairie Project - 01/2008
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 05/2008 (300k)
- Environmental Assessment (8.5mb)

Myrtle Creek HFRA Project
- Cover Letter - 08/2007 (20k)
- Errata Sheet - 08/2007 (1.2mb)
- Record of Decision (ROD) - 08/2007 (2.7mb)
- ROD appendix A - Response to Objections - 08/2007 (1.8mb)
- FEIS Cover Letter - 03/2007 (150k)
- FEIS Summary - 03/2007 (1.5mb)
- Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) - 03/2007 (9mb)
- FEIS Appendices - 03/2007 (6mb)
- FEIS Map Appendix - 03/2007 (3mb)
- Biological Assessment - Fisheries - 03/2007 (345k)
- Biological Assessment - Wildlife - 03/2007 (1.4mb)
- Biological Opinion - 03/2007 (450k)
- FEIS Errata Sheet - 03/2007 (59k)
- Selected Project GIS shapefiles - 03/2007 (290k .zip)

Mission Brush
- Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement - 04/2006 (10.1mb)
- Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement Appendices - 04/2006 (3.1mb)
- Record of Decision - 04/2006 (2.4mb)

SANDPOINT RANGER DISTRICT

Hope/Sagle Land Exchange
- Scoping Letter - (410k)
- Vicinity Map - (1.9mb)
Tumbledown Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
- Decision Notice - (1.5mb)
- Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - (40k)
- Response To Comments - (350k)
- Cover Letter - (340k)
- Environmental Assessment - (2.0mb)
- Appendices - (2.6mb)
- Threatened, Endangered, Sensitive Plants and IPNF Species of Concern Report - (150k)
- Fire, Fuels, and Air Report - (1.3mb)
- Fisheries Biological Assessment and Evaluation - (340k)
- Hydrology Report - (250k)
- Noxious Weeds Report - (130k)
- Soils Report - (190k)
- Forest Vegetation Report - (630k)
- Visuals/Scenery Management Report - (150k)
- Wildlife Report and Biological Assessment - (410k)
Lightning Creek Restoration - 02/2009
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - (2.0mb)
- Environmental Assessment - (1.3mb)
- Map packet 1 - (2.0mb)
- Map packet 2 - (2.0mb)
- Map packet 3 - (2.0mb)
- Aquatics Report - (1.3mb)
- Wildlife Report - (1.0mb)
- Engineering Report - (2.0mb)
- Road Access and Recreation Report - (1.2mb)
- Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Plant Report - (130k)
- Noxious Weeds Report - (70k)
- Photo gallery - (2.0mb)
Gold Crown Fuels Reduction Project
- Cover Letter to Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 08/2008 (41k)
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 08/2008 (1.3mb)
- Initial Scoping Letter - 10/2007 (33k)
- Comment Form - 12/2007 (26k)
- Scoping Notice Cover Letter - 12/2007 (39k)
- Proposed Action Scoping Notice - 12/2007 (81k)
- Environmental Assessment Notice Letter - 04/2008 (45k)
- Environmental Assessment - 04/2008 (2.5mb)
- Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 04/2008 (30k)
- Threatened, Endangered, Sensitive Plants and IPNF Species of Concern Report - 03/2008 (160k)
- Fire, Fuels, and Air Report - 04/2008 (1.3mb)
- Fisheries Biological Assessment and Evaluation - 04/2008 (150k)
- Addendum to Fisheries Biological Assessment and Evaluation - 04/2008 (150k)
- Hydrology Report - 04/2008 (400k)
- Recreation Report - 04/2008 (80k)
- Soils Report - 04/2008 (4.4mb)
- Forest Vegetation Report - 04/2008 (400k)
- Visuals/Scenery Management Report - 04/2008 (190k)
- Noxious Weeds Report - 04/2008 (120k)
- Wildlife Report - 04/2008 (400k)
- Old Growth Report - 04/2008 (50 k)
West Gold Project - 05/2006
- Final Supplemental EIS Cover Letter (43k)
- Final Supplemental EIS Summary (814k)
- Final Supplemental EIS Record of Decision (865k)
- Final Supplemental EIS (3.8mb)
- Final Supplemental EIS Appendices (4.7mb)

PRIEST LAKE RANGER DISTRICT

Granite-Reeder Sanitary Sewer System
- Final Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact December 2007 (290k)
- Letter to the Public June 2007 (121k)
- Appendix 13.10 - Additional Analysis Related to Sale of Forest Service Lands June 2007 (340k)
- Map of the Proposal June 2007 (290k)
- Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) 2006 (430k)
- EA and Addendum 2003 (23mb)
- Appendices 13.1 to 13.5 2002 (14mb)
- Appendices 13.6 to 13.9 2002 (27mb)
Lakeview-Reeder Fuel Reduction Project
- Final Environmental Impact Statement 05/2009 (3.2mb)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement 01/2009 (13.2mb)
- Proposed Action Formal Scoping 11/2006 (145k)
- Proposed Action Scoping Roads Treatments Map 11/2006 (237k)
- Proposed Action Scoping Fuel Treatments Map 11/2006 (294k)
- Second Informal Scoping Summary 04/2006 (33k)
- Second Informal Scoping Letter 04/2006 (69k)
- First Informal Scoping Summary 12/2005 (29k)
- Scoping Content Analysis 04/2006 (170k)
- Scoping Notice 10/2005 (1.7MB)
- Hazardous Fuels Map 10/2005 (491k)
Outlet And High Bridge Fuels Reduction Project
- Decision Memo 09/2005 (462k)

COEUR D'ALENE RIVER RANGER DISTRICT

Settler's Grove Mineral Withdrawal Project
- Legal Notice - 06/2009 (13k)
- Notice of Proposed Action - 06/2009 (31k)
- Vicinity Map - 06/2009 (390k)
Short Riley Watershed Restoration Project
- Decision Memo Cover Letter - 04/2009 (275k)
- Decision Memo - 04/2009 (2.1mb)
Pre-commercial Thinning and Pruning 2009 Program
- Scoping Letter - 04/2009 (40k)
- Proposed Action - 04/2009 (95k)
- Map of the Proposed Action - 04/2009 (11mb)
Rolling Hills Larch Project
- Decision Notice Cover Letter - 05/2009 (815k)
- Decision Notice - 05/2009 (6mb)
- Roads Analysis Process - 05/2009 (5mb)
- Cover Letter for Environmental Assessment - 04/2009 (51k)
- Environmental Assessment - 04/2009 (11mb)
Fancy Gulch Placer Mining Project
- Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 06/2009 (1.7)
- Cover Letter for Environmental Assessment - 04/2009 (35k)
- Environmental Assessment - 04/2009 (4.1mb)
Hoodoo-Ames Resource Area Project
- Scoping Letter and Map of Proposed Action - 12/2008 (1.1mb)
Sale Of Shoshone Base Camp
- Scoping Letter - 03/2008 (250k)
CDA Placer Easement Exchange
- Scoping Letter - 03/2008 (500k)
Travel Plan
- Travel Plan Project (link to Travel Plan web page)
- Cover Letter for Decision Notice - 05/2009 (200k)
- Decision Notice - 04/2009 (700k)
- Selected alternative map 1 (north) - 04/2009 (1.2mb)
- Selected alternative map 2 (northwest) - 04/2009 (1.7mb)
- Selected alternative map 3 (east) - 04/2009 (1.8mb)
- Selected alternative map 4 (southwest) - 04/2009 (2.2mb)
- Selected alternative map 5 (southeast) - 04/2009 (1.6mb)
Blue Alder Resource Area
- Decision Notice - 02/2009 (870k)
- Scoping Letter - 12/2007 (350k)
- Flame Length (map) - 02/2007 (1mb)
- Proposed Action (map) - 04/2008 (14mb)
- Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 05/2008 (67k)
- Environmental Assessment Cover Letter - 05/2008 (47k)
- Environmental Assessment - 05/2008 (7.8mb)
- Alternative 2 Map - 05/2008 (5.2)
- Alternative 3 Map - 05/2008 (5.3mb)

ST. JOE RANGER DISTRICT

Cranberry Decorative Rock II
- Scoping Document - 06/2009 (1.5mb)
Palouse Divide North South Ski Area Request for Land Acquisition
- Scoping Document - 04/2009 (525k)
- Decision Letter - 10/2009 (42k)
Travel Management Plan
- Travel Management Plan web page
- Travel Plan Update Letter (03/17/09) (360k)
- Scoping letter (65k)
- EA Availability Letter (350k)
- EA Comment Form (15k)
- Environmental Assessment (2mb)
- Environmental Assessment Summary (490k)
- Appendix A - Assessment of Niche (75k)
- Appendix B - Trails and Roads Information (2mb)
- Appendix C - Acronyms and Glossary (60k)
- Appendix D - List of Preparers (25k)
- Proposed Action (Alternative B) Maps:
- Map Legend (50k)
- Map 1 - Northwest (4.9mb)
- Map 2 - Northcentral (7.8mb)
- Map 3 - Northeast (7.1mb)
- Map 4 - Southeast (7.6mb)
- Map 5 - Southcentral (9.0mb)
- Map 6 - Southwest (5.0mb)
- Alternative C Maps:
- Map 1 - Northwest (4.9mb)
- Map 2 - Northcentral (7.8mb)
- Map 3 - Northeast (7.1mb)
- Map 4 - Southeast (7.6mb)
- Map 5 - Southcentral (9.0mb)
- Map 6 - Southwest (5.0mb)
- Existing Condition (Alternative A) Maps:
- Map 1 - Northwest (4.9mb)
- Map 2 - Northcentral (7.8mb)
- Map 3 - Northeast (7.1mb)
- Map 4 - Southeast (7.6mb)
- Map 5 - Southcentral (9.0mb)
- Map 6 - Southwest (5.0mb)
St. Joe Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) Program 2009-2015
- Decision Memo Cover Letter - 04/2009 (515k)
- Decision Memo - 04/2009 (4.6mb)
- Proposed Action Letter (225k)
- Vicinity Map (750k)
- TSI Map (2.2mb)
- TSI Map - North details (1.8mb)
- TSI Map - South details (2.0mb)
Fallen Bear Project
- Project File Index - 04/2009 (105k)
- Decision Notice Cover Letter - 04/2009 (175k)
- Decision Notice (DN) - 04/2009 (630k)
- Find of No Significant Impact (FONSI) - 04/2009 (400k)
- Appendix A - Comments and Responses - 04/2009 (1.0mb)
- Appendix B - FONSI - 04/2009 (430k)
- Appendix C - Biological Assessments - 04/2009 (19.0mb)
- DN Vicinity Map - 04/2009 (1.2mb)
- DN Alternative B Map - 04/2009 (1.1mb)
- DN Timber Stand Improvement Map - 04/2009 (1.1mb)
- DN Road Mgmt. Prescriptions Map - 04/2009 (1.1mb)
- DN Road Construction through Old Growth Map - 04/2009 (200k)
- Revised Wildlife Report - 04/2009 (650k)
- Revised Water Resources Report - 04/2009 (460k)
- Revised Noxious Weeds Report - 04/2009 (115k)
- Revised Botany Report - 04/2009 (150k)
- Revised Transportation Report - 04/2009 (1.3mb)
- Revised Soils Report - 04/2009 (2.0mb)
- Environmental Assessment - 11/2008 (520k)
- Environmental Assessment Cover Letter - 11/2008 (410k)
- Air Quality Report - 11/2008 (75k)
- Fire and Fuels Report - 11/2008 (140k)
- Fisheries Report - 11/2008 (370k)
- Cultural Resources Report - 11/2008 (35k)
- Management Activity Report - 11/2008 (151k)
- Noxious Weeds Report - 11/2008 (115k)
- Old Growth Report - 11/2008 (450k)
- Botanical Biological Assessment and Evaluation - 11/2008 (165k)
- Recreation Report - 11/2008 (480k)
- Soils Report - 11/2008 (1.8mb)
- Vegetation Report - 11/2008 (110k)
- Visuals Report - 11/2008 (70k)
- Watershed Report - 11/2008 (465k)
- Wildlife Report - 11/2008 (390k)
- Economics Report - 11/2008 (40k)
- Transportation Report - 11/2008 (215k)
- Public Scoping Report - 11/2008 (75k)
- Vicinity Map - 11/2008 (1.0mb)
- Alternative B Timber Harvest Map - 11/2008 (1.3mb)
- Alternative C Timber Harvest Map - 11/2008 (1.2mb)
- Alternatives B and C Timber Stand Improvement Map - 11/2008 (1.2mb)
- Existing Road Mgmt. Prescriptions Map - 11/2008 (1.2mb)
- Alternative B Road Mgmt. Prescriptions Map - 11/2008 (1.2mb)
- Alternative C Road Mgmt. Prescriptions Map - 11/2008 (1.2mb)
- Harvest History by Decade Map - 11/2008 (9.8mb)
Heller-Cascade Landscape Burning Project
- Decision Memo Cover Letter - 03/2009 (170k)
- Decision Memo - 03/2009 (2.1mb)
- 30-day Comment Period Cover Letter - 03/2008 (206k)
- Notice of Proposed Action for 30-day Comment Period - 03/2008 (4mb)
Stateline Whitebark Pine Release Project
- Scoping Letter - 03/2008 (2.6mb)
- Decision Memo - 07/2008 (760k)
- Maps - 07/2008 (1.3mb)
Bussel 484 Project
- Record of Decision - 05/2008 (600k)
- Record of Decision Maps - 05/2008 (2mb)
- Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) - 05/2008 (3mb)
- Appendix A - Maps - 05/2008 (13mb)
- Appendix B - BMPs and SWCPs - 05/2008 (180k)
- Appendix C - Biological Assessment - 05/2008 (1.6mb)
- Appendix D - Compliance with INFS - 05/2008 (130k)
- Appendix E - Glossary - 05/2008 (370k)
- Appendix F - List of Preparers - 05/2008 (70k)
- Appendix G - List of Recipients - 05/2008 (50k)
- Appendix H - Bibliography - 05/2008 (250k)
- Appendix I - Response to Comments - 05/2008 (6mb)

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