Scoping Period
Clarks Integrated Vegetation Management Project
USDA-Forest Service
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
Whitman Ranger district
Baker County, Oregon
The Whitman Ranger District invites you to comment on the proposed Clarks Integrated Vegetation Management Project. The Forest will be preparing an environmental analysis to record and disclose the environmental effects of a proposed action to improve forest health, the landscape’s resiliency to disturbance, reduce the risk of high intensity fire, to provide economic benefit to the local economy and increase the structural complexity and species diversity of vegetation to provide habitat for a wider range of wildlife species in the Clarks project area. The project area is approximately 42,610 acres on National Forest System lands.
For more detailed information, the following link will direct you to electronic versions of the scoping letter and maps: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=64450
HOW TO COMMENT
Those of you who are interested in the Clarks Integrated Vegetation Management Project are encouraged to become involved in the planning process by providing us with comments and suggestions. In order to be eligible to participate in the Objection process, written comments must be received by September 13, 2023. 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. These comments will be used to resolve issues and develop additional alternatives. Comments that you provide on this project will become a matter of public record.
Written comments must be submitted to: Kendall Cikanek, Whitman District Ranger, 1550 Dewey Ave., Suite A, Baker City, OR 97814, FAX-541-523-1965. The office business hours for those submitting hand- delivered comments are: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Please be sure to include Clarks Integrated Vegetation Management Project as the subject for your written comments.
Electronic comments must be submitted to: Wallowa-Whitman National Forest’s project webpage at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=64450. Select the “Comment/Object on Project” link in the “Get Connected” group at the right-hand side of the project webpage.
Oral comments must be provided at the Responsible Official’s office during normal business hours via telephone 541-523-6391 or in person at the street address above. Comments received, including the names and addresses of those who comment, will be considered part of the public record for this proposal and will be available for public inspection (Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22; Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section 21).
If you have any questions, additional information can be provided by contacting Joe Sciarrino, Silviculturist at joseph.sciarrino2@usda.gov or (541) 742-6714.
Joseph Sciarrino
