Emigrant Creek Ranger District Conducting Analysis for Boundary Project

By Mindy Gould on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories

John Day, Prairie City and Hines (Released by the Malheur National Forest)-The Emigrant Creek Ranger District of the Malheur National Forest is conducting an analysis on Ochoco National Forest system lands within the Boundary project area. The Boundary project is located in the Upper Silver Creek, Twelvemile Creek, Grindstone Creek, Emigrant Creek, Upper South Fork John Day, and South Fork Beaver Creek watersheds; Swamp Creek, Nicoll Creek, Freeman Creek, Black Snag Creek, Still Spring Creek, Crowsfoot Creek, Whiskey Creek, Delintment Creek, Dodson Creek, Upper Twelvemile Creek, Dairy Creek, Norcross Creek, Upper Grindstone Creek, Sawmill Creek and Utley Creek subwatersheds; within Harney and Grant Counties.. The proposal includes vegetation treatment activities including commercial, precommercial, salvage, and landscape scale prescribed burning activities. An Environmental Assessment should form the basis for a decision.

The Boundary project was developed in cooperation with the Harney County Restoration Collaborative (HCRC). For more information about the proposed action, a scoping package can be obtained from the Emigrant Creek District Office in Hines, Oregon or on the Malheur National Forest website at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/malheur/?project=61912.

During this scoping phase of the NEPA process, we are seeking input, either verbal or written. We are interested in any site-specific issues, concerns, or opportunities that you think need to be considered in the development of this analysis.

Written comments are those submitted to the responsible official or designee during a designated opportunity for public participation provided for a proposed project. Specific written comments should be within the scope of the proposed action, have a direct relationship to the proposed action, and must include supporting reasons for the responsible official to consider.

Please submit your comments by January 19, 2024. The preferred method to submit comments is electronically through the portal: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=61912.

Alternatively, written comments may be submitted using the following methods:

Postal mail: Joshua Giles, ECRD Boundary Project, Malheur National Forest, 265 Highway 20 South, Hines Oregon 97738.
E-mail: comments-pacificnorthwest-malheur-emigrantcreek@usda.gov.

Thank you for your interest in the management of the Malheur National Forest.