Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests

Projects & Plans

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Appeals

Appeal decisions made at the local Forest Supervisor level are posted and maintained on this web site for public review. No time has been specified for their deletion.

Environment Analysis and Planning

GMUG Environmental Management System (EMS)

Forest Planning

• The current Forest Plan is available here or on CD. Please contact us for a copy.
• The Forest Service monitors its actions for compliance with the Forest Plans and produces a Monitoring Report
  • 2007 report (PDF, 200 kb)
  • 2005/2006 report (PDF, 300 kb)
  • 2004 report (PDF, 498 kb)
  • 2003 report (PDF, 819 kb)
  • 2002 report (PDF, 308 kb)
  • 2001 report (PDF, 331 kb)
• Forest Plan Revision - Get the latest information about our Forest Plan Revision including public meeting notes, upcoming meetings, and the landscape working group process.
  • Notice of Intent (PDF, 62 kb) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in conjunction with the revision of the Land and Resource Management Plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, published in the Federal Register September 28, 1999.
  • Notice of Adjustment (PDF, 53 kb) The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG) will exercise its option to adjust its land management plan revision process from compliance with the 1982 planning regulations, to conformance with new planning regulations adopted in January 2005. The notice of adjustment was published in the Federal Register May 25, 2005.
• Roadless Area Conservation / National Policies
• New 2005 NFMA Planning Rule
• New 2005 Roadless Inventory and Evaluation Report (Draft July 2006)

Lands

• Alta Access Project
• Alta Lakes Access Scoping Notice -March 2009 (PDF)
• Alta Lakes Access Scoping Map - March 2009   (PDF)
• Bull Mountain Natural Gas Pipeline
• Record of Decision News Release (PDF)
• Record of Decision  (PDF)
• Final EIS News Release (PDF)
• Questions and Answers (PDF)
• Final EIS  (PDF, 5.2 mb)
• Final EIS Appendices(PDF, 14.5 mb)
• Draft EIS (page link to the White River National Forest)
• Inspections
• Proposed Sale of Forest Service Facilities - With recent granted authority, the Forest Service can sell certain facilities and retain the revenues to reduce the large backlog of maintenance needs on other GMUG NF administrative sites.
• Coon Creek Administrative Site - Plan to sell the 160-acre administrative site located astride State Highway 65, about 1.5 miles north of Powderhorn Ski Resort, on the north side of the Grand Mesa.

The decision on whether to sell the Coon Creek administrative site was made on May 9, 2008. Following is the decision notice and the news release announcing that decision.

• Coon Creek Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - (PDF)
• Coon Creek decision news release - (PDF)

The sale may occur in Spring 2009. Below are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) related to the sale.

• Frequently Asked Questions -  (PDF)

Feel free to visit the Coon Creek administrative site. We ask that you respect the neighboring private lands and park only at the two points along State Highway 65 where there is sufficient room to safely pull off. See the following map for those parking locations:

• Map showing parking locations -  (PDF)

• Ditch Bill Easements
• Grand Valley Ranger District (PDF, 135 kb) - April 13, 2005
• Gunnison Ranger District (PDF, 71 kb) - April 13, 2005
• Norwood Ranger District (PDF, 47 kb) - April 1, 2005
• Ouray Ranger District (PDF, 61 kb) - April 13, 2005
• Paonia Ranger District (PDF, 71 kb) - April 13, 2005
• Eligibility Criteria for Ditch Bill Easements (PDF, 11 kb) - April 5, 2005
• Extraordinary Circumstances Considered in Analysis (PDF, 19 kb) - April 5, 2005
• Example of a Standard Operation and Maintenance Plan (PDF, 16 kb) - April 5, 2005
• Hunter Reservoir Enlargement
• Draft Environmental Impact Statement (PDF,2.8 mb) - June, 2007
• Appendices (PDF, 8.2 mb) - June, 2007
• Sheep Gas Gathering System - 6/2007
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, - (PDF, 95 kb)
• Sheep Gas Gathering System Environmental Assessment - (PDF, 3.7 mb)
• Appendices and Figures (all formats are PDF) - Any not listed are in the environmental assessment

Fig 1 - Vicinity Map (360 kb)	Fig 2 - Proposed Action (2.0 mb)	Fig 6 - Trench diagram (890 kb)
Fig 7 - Lynx Habitat (900 kb)
App B- Typ.ROW drawing (26 kb)	App B1- Typical ROW drawings (26 kb)	App C- Trench diagram (70 kb)
App D- Transp. Map (163 kb)	App E- Proj. Traffic Volume (31 kb)	App F- Alts. Not Carried Fwd. (350 kb)
App J- 6th Level Wtrshds (238 kb)	App M- Range Allot. and Imp. (229 kb)	App N- Air Quality Airsheds (328 kb)
App O- Strm. Base Map (3.4 mb)	App P- Strm Gradient Class. (2.1 mb)	App Q- Rosgen Stream Types (2.0 mb)
App R- Slopes >20% (1.2 mb)	App-Soils Map (620 kb)

Mining

• Bowie Coal Lease Modification
• Interested Party Letter, July 2008- (PDF)
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, July 2008- (PDF, 6.5 mb)
• Environmental Assessment, July 2008 - (PDF, 2.1 mb)
• Opportunity to Comment Letter, April 2008- (PDF)
• Coal Lease Modification Map, (PDF, 320 kb)
• Deer Creek Shaft and E Seam Methane Drainage Wells EIS
• E Seam News Release - (PDF) - March 7, 2008
• Reissued E Seam Cover Letter - (PDF) - March 7, 2008
• Reissued E Seam Record of Decision - (PDF, 550 kb) - March 7, 2008
• Record of Decision Cover Letter - E Seam - (PDF, 30 kb) - November 8, 2007
• Record of Decision - E Seam - (PDF, 400 kb) - November 8, 2007
• Record of Decision Cover Letter - Deer Creek Shaft - (PDF, 20 kb) - August 17, 2007
• Record of Decision - Deer Creek Shaft - (PDF, 435 kb) - August 17, 2007
• Interested Party Letter - (PDF, 100 kb) - August 8, 2007
• Final EIS - (PDF, 7.0 mb) - August 2007
• Correspondence: Notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an environmental impact statement   - (PDF, 64 kb)
• NOI -Deer Creek Shaft and E Seam Methane Drainage Wells Project EIS   - (PDF, 55 kb)
• Map - Project Area   - (PDF, 390 kb)
• Draft EIS (table below)

Cover - (PDF, 515 kb)	Summary - (PDF, 164 kb)
Figure S1 - Location Map - (PDF, 1.0 mb)	Figure S2 - Proposed Action - (PDF, 1.1 mb)
Draft EIS - w/o maps - (PDF, 1.3 mb) - 03/07	Figure 1 - Location Map - (PDF, 1.0 mb)
Figure 2-No Action Alternative-(PDF,3.1 mb)	Figure 3 - Proposed Action - (PDF, 1.1 mb)
Figure 5 - Hydrology - (PDF, 1.1 mb)	Figure 6 - Slope - (PDF, 3.1 mb)
Figure 7 - Geologic Hazard - (PDF, 3.2 mb)	Figure 8 - Soils - (PDF, 3.3 mb)
Figure 9 - Vegetation - (PDF, 3.3 mb)	Figure 11 - Lynx Habitat - (PDF, 3.4 mb)
Figure 12 - Roads - (PDF, 1.1 mb)	Letter-Opportunity to Comment-(PDF,38 kb)

• Oxbow Mining lease modification opportunity to comment
• Legal Notice (PDF) - August 21, 2008
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF, 410 kb)
• Environmental Assessment (PDF, 1.1 mb)

Oil and Gas

• Hightower Master Development Plan
• Posting for Applications for Permits to Drill - July 8, 2008 (PDF)
• Hightower Final Decision Map (PDF)
• News Release - 4/2008 (PDF, 20 kb)
• Legal Notice (PDF, 25 kb)
• Interested Party Letter (PDF, 25 kb)
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF, 425 kb)
• Environmental Assessment (EA) (PDF, 5 mb)
• Hightower EA Errata Sheet (PDF)
• Hightower EA Appendix B - Drilling, Fracing and Cementing Chemical Lists (PDF)
• Nucla North 2-D Seismic Survey
• Legal Notice (PDF) - June 2008
• Decision Memo (PDF)
• Exhibit A (PDF)
• Notice of Opportunity to Comment Letter (PDF) - April 2008
• Scoping Map (PDF)
• 1993 Final Oil and Gas Leasing EIS and Record of Decision - April 1993
• Record of Decision (PDF, 2 mb)
• Summary (PDF, 3.5 mb)
• Volume I (PDF, 23.5 mb)
• Volume II (PDF, 20 mb)
• East Half - Map (PDF, 6.7 mb)
• West Half - Map (PDF, 6.9 mb)

Rangeland Management

• Naturita Landscape Rangeland Environmental Assessment -
• Legal Notice - 30-Day Comment Period For Environmental Assessment (PDF)
• Legal Notice - of Decision (PDF)
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF, 116 kb)
• Environmental Assessment (PDF, 4.1 mb)
    February 2007 documents below
• Scoping Letter (PDF, 123 kb)
• Exhibit 1-A, Naturita Division Range Allotment Analysis Area (PDF, 952 kb)
• Exhibit 1-B, Range Condition and Trend (PDF, 146 kb)
• Exhibit 1-C, Gunnison Sage Grouse Habitat Condition (PDF, 949 kb)
• Exhibit 1-D, Big Game Winter Range (PDF, 825 kb)
• Exhibit 1-E, Naturita Division Sixth-Level Watersheds (PDF, 81 kb)
• Exhibit 1-F, Tree Planting Burn Canyon (PDF, 353 kb)
• Exhibit 2-A, Grazing Response Index (PDF, 123 kb)
• San Juan Landscape Rangeland Assessment
• Legal Notice (Closed Allotments) (PDF) - March 12, 2009
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (Closed Allotments) (PDF)
• Legal Notice (Ouray Open Allotments) (PDF) - March 20, 2009
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (Ouray Open Allotments) (PDF)
• Environmental Assessment (PDF, 3.8 mb)

Recreation

• Irwin Backcounty Guides Proposal
• Legal Notice #1 (PDF) - April 2009
• News Release #1 (PDF)
• Project Information and Scoping Letter (PDF)
• Irwin Snowcat Skiing Proposal Map (PDF)
• Rock of Ages Trail Project
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF) - March 20, 2009
• Environmental Assessment (PDF)
• Map of Proposed Project (PDF)
• Response to Comments (PDF)
• Taylor Pass Hut
• Legal Notice #1 (PDF) - March 2009
• News Release #1 (PDF)
• Project Information and Scoping Letter (PDF)
• Taylor Pass Hut Map (PDF)

Ski Areas

• Crested Butte Mountain Resort

• Snodgrass Mountain Expansion Consideration - CBMR is developing a proposal for consideration under NEPA to provide for additional intermediate skiing terrain on Snodgrass Mountain, just north of the Town of Mount Crested Butte.
• Proposal to drill groundwater monitoring wells (PDF, 1.2 mb)
• Technical Report - "Geologic Hazards and Assessment of Potential Effects of Ski Area Development on Slope Stability" (PDF, 8 mb)
1. Appendix A - Maps (PDF, 10.2 mb)
2. Appendix B - Tables (PDF, 110 kb)
3. Appendix C - Photographs (PDF, 14.5 mb)
• Geostability Report, March 2008 (PDF documents)

Executive Summary Table of Contents Chapter 1 -- Introduction Chapter 2 -- Geology Chapter 3 -- Geophysics Chapter 4 -- Geotechnical Chapter 5 -- Surface Water Hydrology Chapter 6 -- Ground Water Hydrology Chapter 7 -- Surface Water-Ground Water Interactions

Chapter 8 -- Landslide Stability Analysis Chapter 9 -- Conclusions and Recommended Mitigation Chapter 10 -- Changes Made To Trail and Snowmaking Layout Chapter 11 -- References Chapter 12 -- Appendices Plate 1 - East Half Plate 1 - West Half Plate 2 - Landslide Deposits Plate 3 - Log of Upper Trench

• USGS Review of Recent Slope Stability Studies - January 8, 2009 (PDF)
• Snodgrass Mtn Geologic Information Letter to CBMR - January 29, 2009 (PDF)
• East Half Plate (PDF)
• West Half Plate (PDF)
• Telluride (Telski)
• Snow Study Decision Memo - Jan. 27, 2009 - (PDF)
• Snow Study Public Notice - Nov. 27, 2008 - (PDF)
• Map - (PDF)

Soil, Water and Air

• Pathfinder Project Steering Committee Report - Strategies for Instream Flow Management (PDF, 220 kb)
• Pathfinder Project web page - www.gmugpathfinder.org
• Grand Junction City Watershed Vegetation Management Projects
• Cover Letter (PDF) - February 2008
• Decision Notice (PDF)
• Environmental assessment (PDF, 1.5 mb)
• Map 1 (PDF, 400 kb )
• Map 2 (PDF, 700 kb)

Travel Management (link to travel management web page)

• Roads Analysis Report
• Grand Mesa Travel Management
• Grand Mesa Travel Plan Environmental Analysis, August 2002
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, December 2003 (PDF, 338 kb)
• Map (PDF, 268 kb)
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, April 5, 2004 (PDF, 132 kb)
• Final Forest Plan Amendment, April 2004 (PDF, 202 kb)
• Notification to Discontinue Off-Route Downed Game Retrieval, February 2005 (PDF, 27 kb)
• Map (PDF, 91 kb)
• Grand Mesa National Forest Mechanized Travel Restriction
• Scoping Letter - Jan. 7 2009 - (PDF)
• Map - North Alternative 1 - (PDF)
• Map - North Alternative 2 - (PDF)
• Map - North Alternative 3 - (PDF)
• Map - South Alternative 1 - (PDF)
• Map - South Alternative 2 - (PDF)
• Map - South Alternative 3 - (PDF)
• Uncompahgre Travel Management Implementation
• Red Canyon
• Scoping Letter - Fall 2006 (PDF, 30 kb)
• Project Map - (PDF, 800 kb)
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - August 2007 (PDF, 92 kb)
• Environmental Assessment - (PDF, 260 kb)
• Alternative 1 - (PDF, 870 kb)
• Alternative 2 - (PDF, 850 kb)
• Alternative 3 - (PDF, 860 kb)
• Alternative 4 - (PDF, 850 kb)
• Response to comments - (PDF, 42 kb)
• Uncompahgre Travel Management EIS
• Decision Memo - Modification of Uncompahgre Travel Plan to specify core dates for seasonal restrictions on use of selected Forest development Roads -April 11, 2009 (PDF)
• Decision Memo - Modification of Uncompahgre Travel Plan to Allow for Variable Seasonal Closure of Selected Forest Development Roads -May 2006 (PDF, 50 kb)
• Record of Decision (PDF, 548 kb), March 2002 - Appeal Period ended May 6, 2002
NOTE: Route numbers shown in Table ROD-1, Table ROD-2 and Decision Maps below, may not be the final route numbers that will be posted on the ground. Users should check with local Ranger District Offices to get updated information as it becomes available.
• Legend for ROD-1 and ROD-2 Tables (PDF, 63 kb)
• Table ROD-1 Roads Summary (930 kb)
• Table ROD-2 Trails Summary (201 kb)
• Decision Map, Plateau Division (PDF, 1.33 mb)
• Decision Map, Mountain Division (PDF, 1.3 mb)
• Winter Decision Map, Plateau Division (PDF, 229 kb)
• Winter Decision Map, Mountain Division (PDF, 246 kb)
• Gunnison
• Gunnison Basin Federal Lands Travel Management Draft EIS (March 2009)
• Gunnison Interim Travel Restrictions Environmental Analysis, November 2000
• This EA and Decision Notice include lands within the Gunnison National Forest and associated BLM lands.
• Response to Comments, March 2001 (PDF, 156 kb)
• Decision Notice, April 2001 (PDF, 106 kb)
• Travel Restrictions in the Gunnison Basin (brochure) [ page 1 ] [ page 2 ] September 2001

Vegetation / Fuels Management Activities

• Ease Precommercial Thin
• Decision Memo, July 10, 2008 (PDF)
• Scoping Letter, June 2008 (PDF)
• Vicinity Map, (PDF, 230 kb)
• Project Map, (PDF, 420 kb)
• Knott Ranch Salvage Sale
• Decision Memo, November 29, 2007 (PDF, 55 kb)
• Decision Memo Map, (PDF, 150 kb)
• Response to Comments, (PDF, 50 kb)
• Leroux Creek Aspen Management
• Scoping/Notice of Opportunity to Comment, March, 2009 (PDF)
• Vicinity Map, (PDF)
• Proposed Action Map, (PDF)
• Alternative 3 Map, (PDF)
• Perfecto Timber Sale
• Decision Notice - Perfecto Creek Timber Sale Project (supplement), Feb 08 - (PDF)
• Decision Notice Map, Feb 08 - (PDF, 165 kb)
• Appendix C: Response to Comments, Feb 08 - (PDF)
• Decision Notice, March, 2007 - (PDF, 175 kb)
• Environmental Assessment (EA), (PDF, 2.7 mb)
• Appendix A
• Map 1: Vicinity Map, (PDF, 511 kb)
• Map 2: Alternative 2 - Proposed Action, (PDF, 140 kb)
• Map 3: Alternative 3 - Old Growth Retention and Aspen Stand Improvement, (PDF, 155 kb)
• Map 4: Existing Road System, (PDF, 115 kb)
• Map 5: Riparian and Wetlands, (PDF, 245 kb)
• Map 6: Desired Future Transportation System, (PDF, 115 kb)
• Map 7: Lynx Habitat, (PDF, 215 kb)
• Appendix B: Response to Comments and Issue Classification, (PDF, 400 kb)
• Scoping: Non-significant Forest Plan Amendment, May 2007, (PDF, 25 kb)
• Legal Notice, May 25, 2007 (PDF, 330 kb)
• Sanborn Park-Western Powerline Wildland Urban Interface Project
• Public Scoping Letter - August 15, 2008 - (PDF)
• Public Scoping Notice - August 21, 2008 (PDF)
• Scoping Notice Report - (PDF)
• Diagram of Wire Zone-Border Zone - (PDF)
• Maps
• Overview Map of Analysis Area - (PDF, 171 kb)
• Planning Unit Boundaries and Map Series Key - (PDF, 650 kb)
• Planning Unit Boundaries 1 and 7 - (PDF, 340 kb)
• Planning Unit Boundaries 2, 3, and 4 - (PDF, 290 kb)
• Planning Unit Boundaries 5 and 6 - (PDF, 360 kb)
• Snogo Alley Timber Sale
• Decision Memo, November 18, 2008 (PDF)
• Decision Memo Map, (PDF)
• Vicinity map, (PDF)
• Spartan Timber Sale
• Scoping/Notice of Opportunity to Comment, January 23, 2009 (PDF)
• Project Map, (PDF)
• Vicinity map, (PDF)
• Terror Creek Applied Silvicultural Assessment
• Decision Memo - June 27, 2008 (PDF)
• Response to Comments (PDF)
• Study Plan (PDF)
• Scoping/Notice of Opportunity to Comment - February 2008 (PDF, 80 kb)
• Map 1 - Vicinity Map (PDF, 150 kb)
• Map 2 - Potential Treatment Areas (PDF, 185 kb)
• Map 3 - Inventoried Roadless Areas (PDF, 140 kb)
• Map 4 - Altered Roadless Area (PDF, 170 kb)
• Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Upper Power Line Fuels Treatment
• Decision Memo, September 15, 2006 (PDF, 310 kb)
• Uncompahgre Mesas Forest Restoration and Demonstration Project
• Scoping / Notice of Opportunity to Comment - Feb 24, 2008 - (PDF)
• Historical Forest Structure on the Uncompahgre Plateau Document - (PDF)
• Wolverine Timber Sale
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - June, 2008 - (PDF)
• Environmental Assessment - (PDF)

Wildlife, Fish and Rare Plants

• Fish Habitat Improvement in the Cochetopa Creek Watershed
• Scoping/Notice of Opportunity to Comment - December 18, 2008 (PDF)
• Project Area Map (PDF
• Fall Creek and Woods Lake Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Reclamation Project.
• Scoping/Notice of Opportunity to Comment - April 2008 (PDF, 110 kb)
• Project Area Map (PDF, 100 kb)
• Decision Notice - Sept. 2008 (PDF, 465 kb)
• Environmental Assessment Sept. 2008 (PDF, 505 kb)
• Response to Comments (PDF, 50 kb)
• Management Indicator Species Plan Amendment
• Decision Notice (PDF, 99 kb) - May 11, 2005
• Amendment (PDF, 233 kb) - May 11, 2005
• Environmental Assessment for Forest Plan Amendment (PDF, 197 kb) - March 23, 2005
• Appendix A (PDF, 262 kb), accessible version for screen readers, (PDF, 259 kb)
• Appendix B (PDF, 28 kb)
• Appendix C (PDF, 36 kb)
• Appendix D (PDF, 88 kb)
• Appendix E (PDF, 448 kb)
• Management Indicator Species Assessments - Version 1.0
• Albert's squirrel (PDF, 1.1 mb)
• Brewer’s sparrow (PDF, 650 kb)
• Colorado River cutthroat trout (PDF, 620 kb)
• Rocky Mountain elk (PDF, 1.6 mb)
• American marten (PDF, 580 kb)
• Merriam’s turkey (PDF, 670 kb)
• Red-naped sapsucker (PDF, 2.5 mb)
• Northern Goshawk (PDF, 700 kb)
• Taylor Sheep Prescribed Burn Project
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact - (PDF)
• Environmental Assessment - (PDF, 2.2 mb)

NEPA Terminology

General Information

• Federal Government Procurement Opportunities for Vendors / Contractors
• Freedom of Information Act

Schedule of Proposed Actions

• Forest Service Schedule of Proposed Actions for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests

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