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			The Walla Walla District is soliciting comments on an environmental assessment of the Little Bay Stewardship Project at Dworshak Dam and Reservoir near Ahsahka, Idaho. The Corps is proposing to selectively remove trees and conduct low-intensity prescribed burns. The purpose of the project is to restore a healthy forest environment. Selectively removing small trees within overstocked stands and using prescribed underburns in areas that have been suppressed from fire will imitate the effects of a natural wildfire to improve forest health and restore forest conditions that are beneficial to native wildlife. Fire suppression in this area has created overstocked and unnatural forest conditions resulting in less available habitat for certain rare species. It has also increased the risk of catastrophic fire and increased disease and beetle infestation.      The proposed project area is located along the Dworshak Reservoir near Canyon Creek between River Mile 7 and River Mile 11. Approximately 1,300 acres have been assessed, of which 685 acres are proposed for treatment using selective tree removal and prescribed burns. The project could begin as early as this year and is expected to extend over a 5-year period.      Interested parties are invited to provide comments on the draft environmental assessment of the Little Bay stewardship project during the review period that ends May 13, 2002. Comments should be submitted no later than that date to be considered. Submit your comments via this website, or by mail to: Walla Walla District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Compliance Branch, Attn: James S. Smith, 201 N. Third Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362.
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