Tongass National Forest

Soda Nick Small Timber Sales

Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (DN/FONSI)

Craig Ranger District

The Soda Nick Project Area encompasses some 17,126 acres of National Forest System Lands in the Craig Ranger District, Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest, in Southeast Alaska. The area is about 15 miles southeast of Craig and 45 miles northwest of Ketchikan.

The selected alternative, Alternative 3, will harvest an estimated 3.9 million board feet (MMBF) of saw timber on about 257 acres using cable and helicopter logging methods. Approximately 0.5 miles of temporary road will be built to facilitate logging.

The Soda Nick Small Timber Sales DN/FONSI is available electronically only as a PDF, requiring Adobe Acrobat™ Reader. If you would like a hard copy, please contact Chuck Klee at 907-828-3264. These PDFs are not scannable and cannot be read by a screen reader.

Entire document (100 pages, 4.2 mb PDF)

Map 1 - Vicinity Map (1 page, 190 kb PDF)

Decision Notice/Finding of No Significant Impace (24 pages, 1.8 mb PDF)

Map 2 - Selected Alternative (1 page, 295 kb PDF)

Appendix 1 - Unit Cards (34 pages, 2.1 mb PDF)

Appendix 2 - Response to Comments (38 pages, 251 kb PDF)

USDA Forest Service - Tongass National Forest
Last Modified: June 13, 2007