Proposed Projects

NPS proposed projects on the AT to address deferred maintenance. Maintenance work would occur at shelters, privies, parking areas, campsites, and trail bridges across the forest.

The Pemigewasset Ranger District proposes to accept into the National Forest System trail network the 1.4-mile long user-created trail called the "Black Pond Bushwhack".

Eight trail bridges have reached the end of their life span and need to be replaced to maintain the trail network. The replacement bridges may use wood and/or steel and may need to be longer to accommodate stream dynamics

Project focus would be to convey the dam, which will result in a similar land use and alleviate the maintenance burden from the Forest Service. This would be a direct sale to the permittee of the special use permit.

Harvest up to 120 acres of white ash and other trees as needed to access ash trees posing threat within one tree length of designated campsites and common areas.

Eversource proposes replacing about 140 wooden utility poles (i.e. structures) with steel pole equivalents in the existing ROW, as well as installing about 102,000 linear feet of Optical Ground Wire.

Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for bridge and culvert replacements across ski special use permit areas to streamline individual project effects analysis. Any project that cannot meet SOPs would go through independent effects analysis.

Designate the Franconia mountain bike trail network as official Forest Service trails and incorporate into the National Forest System trails database.

Cutting about 50 red pine trees over three inch or larger diameter at breast height and removing fill in about a 100 by 100-foot area on the north side of the pit to establish the Government Pit mineral collection site.

Removal of one Adirondack shelter, rehabilitation of two shelters, construction of three tent platforms and construction of a five-bay composting toilet system.

This project proposes two bridge replacements. If the current locations are not suitable, new locations nearby will be considered, and a small trail reroute to tie the new bridges to the existing trail may be necessary.

Loon Mountain Recreation Corps proposes construction of access routes for the Black Mountain glade skiing area and glade improvements to facilitate downhill skiing.

The Pemigewasset Ranger District of the White Mountain National Forest proposes recreation, transportation, vegetation, and wildlife habitat management activities within the Lost River project area, Woodstock, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Removal of up to twenty trees and demolition of current Lower Falls Recreation site toilet building and possibly old vault. Replace with new buildings and installed vaults. After installation, backfill and landscape sites.

Replace the current Madison Gulf Bridge with a newly designed structure. Helicopters may be used to transport material in and out of the Great Gulf Wilderness.

Reestablish historic side channel of Mill Brook after recent storm events to protect Forest Service road infrastructure and Town of Stark road infrastructure from damage due to flooding.

Land exchange of about 1.5 acres with the privately owned Cog Railway in the Mount Washington area. Area to be exchanged includes all existing infrastructure. Area to be acquired is undeveloped land adjacent to existing National Forest System land.

New Hampshire DoT requests the White Mountain National Forest authorize the replacement of a 70 year old storage building and construction of a new salt storage building.

The Androscoggin Ranger District is proposing watershed, wildlife habitat, vegetation management, and recreation management actions in the One Mile Lonesome Ridge habitat management unit.

Cut five visible logs making up the top layer of the dam in a lateral staggered pattern such that the wood would then be angled downstream, creating grade controls so that the streamflow is redirected.

Create an accessible trail, meeting Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines(FSTAG), at the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center.

Decommission the Province Pond Dam and all associated infrastructure, which includes removal of the concrete spillway and beaver deceiver and recontouring the earthen-berm dam and spillway area to a more natural shape.

The RMC Pro Trail Crew and Caretaker staff will develop a new sixteen square-foot caretaker tentsite within the existing Perch Tentsite footprint.

Proposed recreation, wildlife habitat, vegetation, and transportation management activities.

Waterville Valley Resort proposes to reroute about 1,500 feet of the main access road onto the Chandler's Way trail to reduce erosion issues, road maintenance costs, and time to transport materials around the resort.

Waterville Valley Resort proposes an expansion, see project documents for details. Comments can be submitted here: SM.whitemountain.comments@usda.gov with a subject line of Waterville Valley Scoping. The Get Connected option below is not active.

Waterville Valley Ski Resort proposes to reconstruct the Schwendi Hutte. Additional seats and decks, as well as a new kitchen, loading dock, main deck, and bathrooms are proposed.

Relocation of about one mile of the Webster Cliff hiking trail into the Presidential Range Wilderness. This will include a project-specific forest plan amendment to allow the addition of the trail into Wilderness.

Removing the dam and associated structures and restoring the disturbed areas. Scope of work includes staging area establishment and access road improvement.

Amending the Forest Plan to enable relocations of trails in Wilderness and addition of existing travel corridors to the National Forest Trail System when for resource protection purposes.

Apply fire to thirty acres of the Zealand Wildlife Opening to promote Beaked Hazelnut and Blueberry growth. Burns would be conducted on a four year cycle but may be done earlier depending on habitat needs.