Projects

The Forest Service is considering amending its land management plans to address new and evolving issues arising since implementing sage-grouse plans in 2015. This project is in cooperation with the USDI Bureau of Land Management.

This project would involve reentry of approximately 7,820 acres of previously treated shrub communities with a hand crew using chainsaws to remove the encroaching conifer. Maintenance of the original treatments would likewise maintain habitat.

We would create a fuel break along existing linear features in the project area, primarily the White Cloud Loop. The fuel break would be approximately 2,500 acres and 600 feet wide.

The proposed project would authorize prescribed burns across the Forest up to 24,000 acres/year. Treatment boundaries would be designed to meet objectives and move areas toward desired conditions. Wilderness, RNAs, private land, & alpine excluded.

We are proposing to reroute two sections of the Brown Duck Trail and one section of the Lake Fork Trail (totaling 1.9 miles of reroute) to address trail damage from winter storms. The project area falls outside of the wilderness boundary.

We are proposing to adjust the boundary of the Buckboard Marina's special use permit to remove water acreage and potentially add areas of land to the south and east.

This is a proposed timber, fuels, forest health, and safety project and would include approximately 3,458 acres of forested vegetation treatments, including in areas designated as a Utah Shared Stewardship priority landscape.

We would designate a slash pile site for Deer Lodge recreation residence permittees to encourage firewise practices. Forest Service employees would burn the pile site as necessary.

The project would involve a special use authorization to drill a fresh water well at cabin lot #10 in the Deer Lodge permitted recreation residence area. The well would be ~60-100 feet deep and 6 inches wide.

The BLM issued their decision selecting Alternative D on 5/2/2025: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2016395/510. Alternative D does not involve any USFS lands so the USFS portion of the project is cancelled.

We are developing a new management plan with direction for all resources and resource uses in the Flaming Gorge NRA.

This project would approve the installation of a solar energy system at a recreation residence permitted to Guy Brown.

This project is an evaluation of the effects of continued domestic sheep grazing in the High Uintas Wilderness, including five sheep allotments on the Ashley NF and five sheep allotments on the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache NF.

This master permit would consolidate all of Moon Lake Electric's powerlines under one permit and would establish a standardized 50-foot right-of-way for all their overhead and buried powerlines on the Ashley National Forest.

This would be an approximately 721-acre fuels reduction project. Vegetation treatments would include mastication, mowing, slashing, and piling and burning.

This project would involve installing 4,500 feet of high density polyethylene (HDPE) line in the Red Canyon recreation corridor. This includes the installation of components such as drains, valve boxes, air vents, and other water control devices.

This is a Forest Service and Ute Tribe cross-boundary fuels management project to reduce the likelihood of undesirable fires, improve forest health, improve wildlife habitat, protect improvements, and increase public safety.

The proposed action is to approve a Plan of Operations submitted to the Forest, which consists of a proposal to reopen and sample an old collapsed mine adit, in the Farm Creek area of the Ashley National Forest.

The project would involve replacing the Upper Greendale waterline that services several sites in the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.

This project would involve a special use permit for the existing road across public land that accesses the Wirick private property.

This project would involve replacing two yurt structures. We would remove the old structures and construct two new yurts with support decking. We would also install new restrooms.