Projects are proposed actions that are analyzed through the NEPA process (EIS, EA, or CE) that involves analyzing different alternatives to the proposed action, requires public notice and comment, and results in a NEPA decision (ROD, DN, or DM) which, subject to an administrative appeals process, and is implemented on the ground. The Forest Projects below are projects that we are analyzing or have analyzed under the NEPA process. Projects that are "Developing Proposal" or "Under Analysis" may have an opportunity for public collaboration and input on the proposed actions and the analysis being conducted.
Developing Proposal
Invasive Plant Species Treatment
Control or eradication of invasive plant species using one or more of the following treatment methods: manual, mechanical, chemical, biological and others. If approved, proposed actions would be implemented on each of the four Ranger Districts.
Under Analysis
2013 Special Use Permit Renewal
The approval of several special use authorizations. The approval may result in the reissuance of eighteen (18) existing special use permits.
Abandoned Coal Mine Safety Restoration
Abandoned mining sites with features, such as portals, adits, shafts, subsidence, structures, and equipment that are either environmental or safety hazards would be restored to other productive uses.
Ano / Goodwater Warm Season Grass Restoration and Maintenance Project
Remove areas of autum olive, bush honeysuckle, and other non-native invasive species; plant native warm season grasses, legumes. Removal would be accomplished with heavy equipment and hand tools. Planting would be done by machine and by hand.
Cave Run Non-motorized Trails Initiative
Designate new routes, designate uses, and season-of-use on existing and new designated routes, close user-developed paths, develop new traiheads, and improve existing trailheads to reduce user conflict and minimize resource damage.
Freeman Fork Oak Woodland Restoration Project
Conduct forest thinning, including a heavy thinning to establish an oak woodland structure. Additional actions include periodic prescribed burning, chemical control of NNIS and midstory level trees, creation of vernal ponds. and monitoring.
Leslie County Water Tank Special Use Authorization
New water line along Hell for Certain Road to a water tank on NFS lands to supply water to county residence along Hell for Certain Road.
London Fuels Treatment
Conduct controlled burning in forty-one (41) areas across the district to reduce fuel loading, reduce fire regime condition class and promote fire-mediated upland ecosystems.
Sand Lick Fork Watershed Restoration
Improve water quality and reduce soil loss by plugging abandoned oil wells, removing flowing lines, restoration of stream channels and associated floodplains, and managing /maintaining the many open roads in the Sand Lick Fork area.
Southfork Coal Lease KYES 051088
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to lease a tract of federal coal and the Forest Service proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM. Proposed lease area is approximately 64 acres, and no surface disturbance is proposed on NFS lands.
Spring Creek Vegetation Management
Provide for a variety of habitat conditions to augment forest health and vigor. Proposed activities include 161 ac. commercial harvest (80 ac.-two-age shelterwood, 81 ac.-thinning), 249 ac. of crop tree release, and construction of 3 wildlife ponds.
Steel Trap Valley Fill Stability Assessment Project
Monitor groundwater and collect soil data to assess the stability of the Steel Trap Valley Fill on the Redbird Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest by installing standpipe-type piezometers.
Thinning of white pine plantations in riparian areas
The Forest Service is proposing to reduce the number of trees per acre on 70 acres in fourteen (14) selected plantations of white pine using a commercial timber sale.
Analysis Completed
Bledsoe Coal Lease KYES 053865
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to lease a tract of federal coal and the Forest Service proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM. Surface disturbance is not planned on National Forest System lands.
STO Dock Authorization
Authorize Sheltowee Trace Outfitters (STO) to install an anchored floating dock at the Mouth of Laurel Boat Ramp. The dock would be used primarily to safely disembark passengers in association with STO's river rafting and lake tours operations.
On Hold
Casada School House
Preserve and promote the historic Casada School house.
Commercial timber harvest in the Beaver Creek Watershed
401 acres of commercial timber harvest designed to improve tree vigor or establish young forest. 292 acres of two-aged shelterwood and 109 acres of thinning in 11 distinct areas. Herbicide treatment of selected species within shelterwood areas.
Compliance Coal Lease KYES 051689
The FS proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM and BLM proposes to lease federal coal. No surface disturbance is planned on National Forest System lands.
Goose Creek Coal Lease KYES 053729
The FS proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM and BLM proposes to lease federal coal. No surface disturbance is planned on National Forest System lands.
Harvey Branch Special Use: Road Access
Proposed issuance of a Special Use Permit for construction of a temporary road on national forest system land for private land access.
Riparian area improvement in Beaver and Buck Creeks
Improvement of stream channel condition on 5 miles of exisiting streams. Establishment of woody vegetation on 22 acres of existing grasslands.