Find a Forest (NF)
or Grassland (NG)
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
2250 Highway 50
Delta, CO 81416
(970) 874-6600
Telephone for the
Hearing Impaired
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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
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
- 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
- Bull Mountain Natural Gas Pipeline
- 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.
The sale may occur in Spring 2009. Below are Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ's) related to the sale.
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:
- 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
- Sheep Gas Gathering System - 6/2007
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) |
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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) |
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Mining
- Bowie Coal Lease Modification
- 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
Oil and Gas
- Hightower Master Development Plan
- Nucla North 2-D Seismic Survey
- 1993 Final Oil and Gas Leasing EIS and Record of Decision
- April 1993
Rangeland Management
- Naturita Landscape Rangeland Environmental Assessment
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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
Recreation
- Irwin Backcounty Guides Proposal
- Rock of Ages Trail Project
- Taylor Pass Hut
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.
- Telluride (Telski)
Soil, Water and Air
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)
- 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)
- Grand Mesa National Forest Mechanized Travel Restriction
- Uncompahgre Travel Management Implementation
- 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
Vegetation / Fuels Management Activities
- Ease Precommercial Thin
- Knott Ranch Salvage Sale
- Leroux Creek Aspen Management
- 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
- Snogo Alley Timber Sale
- Spartan Timber Sale
- Terror Creek Applied Silvicultural Assessment
- Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Upper Power Line
Fuels Treatment
- Uncompahgre Mesas Forest Restoration and Demonstration Project
- Wolverine Timber Sale
Wildlife, Fish and Rare Plants
- Fish Habitat Improvement in the Cochetopa Creek Watershed
- Fall Creek and Woods Lake Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Reclamation
Project.
- Management Indicator Species Plan Amendment
- Management Indicator Species Assessments - Version 1.0
- Taylor Sheep Prescribed Burn Project
General Information
Schedule of Proposed Actions
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