Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee, 35744-35745 [2017-16125]

Download as PDF 35744 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 146 / Tuesday, August 1, 2017 / Notices Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to: 1. Provide an overview of the Secure Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act and the responsibilities of RAC members; and 2. Discuss how the RAC will function. The meeting is open to the public. The agenda will include time for people to make oral statements of three minutes or less. Individuals wishing to make an oral statement should request in writing by August 9, 2017, to be scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who would like to bring related matters to the attention of the committee may file written statements with the committee staff before or after the meeting. Written comments and requests for time to make oral comments must be sent to Julie Fosbender, RAC Coordinator, Monongahela National Forest Headquarters Building, 200 Sycamore Street, Elkins, West Virginia 26241; by email to jfosbender@fs.fed.us; or via facsimile to 304–637–0582. Meeting Accommodations: If you are a person requiring reasonable accommodation, please make requests in advance for sign language interpreting, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable accommodation. For access to the facility or proceedings, please contact the person listed in the section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case by case basis. Dated: July 10, 2017. Glenn Casamassa, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System. [FR Doc. 2017–16126 Filed 7–31–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411–15–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Columbia County Resource Advisory Committee Forest Service, USDA. Notice of meeting. AGENCY: ACTION: The Columbia County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Dayton, Washington. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:13 Jul 31, 2017 Jkt 241001 collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with the Act. DATES: The meeting will be held on August 14, 2017, and will begin at 6:00 p.m. All RAC meetings are subject to cancellation. For status of meeting prior to attendance, please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Dayton Fire Department, 111 Patit Road, Dayton, Washington 99328. Written comments may be submitted as described under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. All comments, including names and addresses when provided, are placed in the record and are available for public inspection and copying. The public may inspect comments received at the Walla Walla Ranger District. Please call ahead to facilitate entry into the building. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Rassbach, Designated Federal Officer, by phone at 509–522–6293 or via email at mrassbach@fs.fed.us. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to: 1. Review of past projects and progress of continuing projects, 2. Discussion and selection of proposed projects, and 3. Allow for public comment. The meeting is open to the public. The agenda will include time for people to make oral statements of three minutes or less. Individuals wishing to make an oral statement should request in writing by August 7, 2017, to be scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who would like to bring related matters to the attention of the committee may file written statements with the committee staff before or after the meeting. Written comments and requests for time to make oral comments must be sent to Mike Rassbach, Designated Federal Officer, Walla Walla Ranger District, 1415 West Rose Street, Walla Walla, Washington 99362, by email to mrassbach@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to 509–522–6000. Meeting Accommodations: If you are a person requiring reasonable accommodation, please make requests in advance for sign language interpreting, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable accommodation. For access to the facility or proceedings, PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 please contact the person listed in the section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case by case basis. Dated: July 5, 2017. Glenn Casamassa, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System. [FR Doc. 2017–16127 Filed 7–31–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411–15–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee Forest Service, USDA. Notice of meeting. AGENCY: ACTION: The Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Monte Vista, Colorado. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with the Act. RAC information can be found at the following Web site: https://cloudappsusda-gov.secure.force.com/FSSRS/RAC_ Page?id=001t00000086exUAAQ. DATES: The meeting will be held on August 23, 2017, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All RAC meetings are subject to cancellation. For status of meeting prior to attendance, please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. SUMMARY: The meeting will be held at the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Conference Room, 3625 West U.S. Highway 160, Monte Vista, Colorado. Written comments may be submitted as described under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. All comments, including names and addresses when provided, are placed in the record and are available for public inspection and copying. The public may inspect comments received at Rio Grande National Forest (NF) Supervisor’s Office. Please call ahead to facilitate entry into the building. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Blakeman, RAC Coordinator, by phone at 719–852–6212 or via email at mblakeman@fs.fed.us. ADDRESSES: E:\FR\FM\01AUN1.SGM 01AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 146 / Tuesday, August 1, 2017 / Notices Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to review, evaluate, and recommend project proposals to be funded with Title II money. The meeting is open to the public. The agenda will include time for people to make oral statements of three minutes or less. Individuals wishing to make an oral statement should request in writing by August 11, 2017, to be scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who would like to bring related matters to the attention of the committee may file written statements with the committee staff before or after the meeting. Written comments and requests for time to make oral comments must be sent to Mike Blakeman, RAC Coordinator, Rio Grande NF Supervisor’s Office, 1803 West U.S. Highway 160, Monte Vista, Colorado, 81144; by email to mblakeman@fs.fed.us; or via facsimile to 719–852–6250. Meeting Accommodations: If you are a person requiring reasonable accommodation, please make requests in advance for sign language interpreting, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable accommodation. For access to the facility or proceedings, please contact the person listed in the section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case by case basis. Dated: July 10, 2017. Glenn Casamass, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System. [FR Doc. 2017–16125 Filed 7–31–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411–15–P Send written comments to 2900 NW Stewart Parkway, Oregon 97471. Comments may also be sent via email to comments-pacificnorthwestumpqua-northumpqua@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to 970–957–3283. Forest Service Umpqua and Diamond Lake Districts, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, Calf Copeland Restoration Project Forest Service, USDA. Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement. AGENCY: mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES ACTION: Calf and Copeland Creek are major tributaries to the North Umpqua River and lie in the very center of the Umpqua National Forest. The 51,650 acre planning area is within a mixedseverity fire regime landscape in which SUMMARY: 20:13 Jul 31, 2017 Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received by August 31, 2017. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is expected December, 2018 and the Final Environmental Impact Statement is expected July, 2019. DATES: ADDRESSES: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE VerDate Sep<11>2014 the steep slopes and canyons historically tended to burn hot while the benches and ridges tended towards high-frequency, low-severity fire. As a consequence, the benches and ridges developed open stands of mixed-age Douglas-fir, sugar pine, ponderosa pine and incense-cedar. Fire suppression and past timber harvest have converted these areas to overstocked stands of predominately young Douglas-fir and white fir that are rapidly choking out the pine and leaving the entire landscape at risk to uncharacteristic wildfire. The Umpqua National Forest has witnessed a sharp increase in wildfire over the last couple of decades. During this period, tens of thousands of acres have burned within the planning area and the immediately adjacent watersheds, about 20,000 acres of which were stand replacement fire within habitat for the northern spotted owl. This project proposes a combination of timber harvest, non-commercial thinning, and prescribed fire to reduce stem densities and improve the fuel profiles in plantations as well as in older stands with sugar or ponderosa pine. The project also proposes to create strategically placed shaded fuel breaks along roads to help manage wildfire to reduce the risk of stand replacement fire in the remaining late-successional and old-growth stands. Finally, the project would provide log placement in lower Calf Creek to improve stream conditions, restore two wetlands and possibly decommission or close roads to improve watershed conditions. Jkt 241001 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Helliwell at 541–957–3337, rhelliwell@fs.fed.us or Amy Nathanson at 541–957–3338, anathanson02@ fs.fed.us. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 35745 Purpose and Need for Action The purpose of this project is to provide greater landscape resiliency to wildfire and other disturbances. Integral to maintaining landscape resiliency is maintenance of legacy ponderosa and sugar pine and recruitment of new pine to begin replacing the trees that have been lost to competition in the wake of decades of fire suppression. Also essential to restoring fire resiliency is the need to restore the historic species composition and structure where it has been altered due to past timber management. In order to truly improve landscape resiliency it would be necessary to group management actions, as much as practical, into ecologically significant units that would allow fire to function more similarly to how it did historically. There is a need to manage for old-growth and late-successional habitat for the northern spotted owl and other old forest species to compensate, in part, for the many thousands of acres that have been converted to early seral habitat due to recent stand-replacement fires in and adjacent to the planning area. Finally, there is a need to improve aquatic conditions that have been altered through roads and past timber harvest. Proposed Action Restoration of mixed-conifer stands with sugar pine or ponderosa pine would occur on 1,777 acres. Treatment would consist of removal of all conifers under 20–24 inches diameter breast height (DBH) within 20–25 feet of the dripline of all healthy pine over 20 inches DBH. Overall canopy cover in the stands would be reduced to 40–60% canopy closure. No trees over 20–24″ DBH would be removed. Non-commercial thinning, girdling or burning would occur on 185 acres. Noncommercial thinning would be comprised of predominately conifers under 7″ DBH, although larger trees up to 24″ DBH may be cut and left within 20 feet of the dripline of large pines. In some cases trees up to 24″ DBH could also be girdled in the vicinity of large pines rather than felled. Fuels treatments may consist of pile and burning or broadcast burning or both. Thinning would occur on 1,147 acres of previously managed stands. All of these stands had been clearcut between 1956 and 1975 and planted to predominately Douglas-fir. These stands would be thinned to 40–60% canopy closure and small gaps of 0.5 to 3 acres would be created and planted to rustresistant sugar pine or ponderosa pine. A 50 foot no entry buffer would be left along all streams, allowing for thinning E:\FR\FM\01AUN1.SGM 01AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 146 (Tuesday, August 1, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35744-35745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-16125]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee 
(RAC) will meet in Monte Vista, Colorado. The committee is authorized 
under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
(the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative 
relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest 
Service concerning projects and funding consistent with the Act. RAC 
information can be found at the following Web site: https://cloudapps-usda-gov.secure.force.com/FSSRS/RAC_Page?id=001t00000086exUAAQ.

DATES: The meeting will be held on August 23, 2017, from 9:30 a.m. to 
3:00 p.m.
    All RAC meetings are subject to cancellation. For status of meeting 
prior to attendance, please contact the person listed under For Further 
Information Contact.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the San Luis Valley Rural 
Electric Cooperative, Conference Room, 3625 West U.S. Highway 160, 
Monte Vista, Colorado.
    Written comments may be submitted as described under Supplementary 
Information. All comments, including names and addresses when provided, 
are placed in the record and are available for public inspection and 
copying. The public may inspect comments received at Rio Grande 
National Forest (NF) Supervisor's Office. Please call ahead to 
facilitate entry into the building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Blakeman, RAC Coordinator, by 
phone at 719-852-6212 or via email at mblakeman@fs.fed.us.

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    Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) 
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 
between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through 
Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to review, 
evaluate, and recommend project proposals to be funded with Title II 
money.
    The meeting is open to the public. The agenda will include time for 
people to make oral statements of three minutes or less. Individuals 
wishing to make an oral statement should request in writing by August 
11, 2017, to be scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who would like to bring 
related matters to the attention of the committee may file written 
statements with the committee staff before or after the meeting. 
Written comments and requests for time to make oral comments must be 
sent to Mike Blakeman, RAC Coordinator, Rio Grande NF Supervisor's 
Office, 1803 West U.S. Highway 160, Monte Vista, Colorado, 81144; by 
email to mblakeman@fs.fed.us; or via facsimile to 719-852-6250.
    Meeting Accommodations: If you are a person requiring reasonable 
accommodation, please make requests in advance for sign language 
interpreting, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable 
accommodation. For access to the facility or proceedings, please 
contact the person listed in the section titled For Further Information 
Contact. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case by 
case basis.

    Dated: July 10, 2017.
Glenn Casamass,
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 2017-16125 Filed 7-31-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3411-15-P
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