From the Friday, November 5, 2004 issue of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
The Flathead National Forest has unveiled its final plan for managing areas burned by the Robert and Wedge Canyon fires in summer 2003.
A two-volume Environmental Impact Statement was released this week, outlining several alternative management approaches for a total of 34,650 acres of national forest lands that were burned in the North Fork Flathead drainage.
The forest's "proposed action" calls for salvage logging on 4,337 acres and tree planting on 3,000 acres. It also calls for decommissioning 15 miles of road and closing five miles of road that are currently open seasonally or year-round to approach forest plan standards that are intended to improve grizzly bear habitat security.
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The final EIS for the Robert-Wedge Post Fire Project is available at the Flathead National Forest Supervisors Office or on the Internet at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/flathead/nepa/nepa.htm
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