Legal Notice for EA Objection Filing
Pumice Vegetation Management Project
The draft decision notice and finding of no significant impact (DN/FONSI) and environmental assessment (EA) for the Pumice Vegetation Management Project are now available for public review. The project is intended to restore fire as an ecosystem process and reduce the risk of undesired wildfire effects to important resources; reduce stand densities to productive and sustainable levels; increase the number of young, healthy ponderosa pine thereby encouraging vegetation species and stand structure diversity; improve stand resilience to wildfire, insects, and disease; provide economic benefits to the local communities; and provide opportunities for public firewood cutting. This project area encompasses 9,310 acres and is located on the Goosenest Ranger District of the Klamath National Forest approximately 6 miles east of Tennant, California in Siskiyou County: Township (T) 43 North (N), Range (R) 1 East (E), Sections 12 – 13 and 24; T43N, R2E, Sections 2 – 11, 14 – 21, and 29 – 30; T44N, R2E, Sections 32 – 33, Mount Diablo Meridian. The draft DN/FONSI and EA and supporting documents are available on the Klamath National Forest’s project webpage at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=30290.
This proposed decision is subject to objection pursuant to 36 CFR 218, Subparts A and B. Objections will only be accepted from those who submitted project-specific written comments during scoping or another designated comment period. Issues raised in objections must be based on previously submitted comments unless based on new information arising after the designated comment period.
Objections must be submitted within 45 days following the publication of this legal notice. The date of this legal notice is the exclusive means for calculating the time to file an objection. Those wishing to object should not rely upon dates or timeframes provided by any other source. It is the objector’s responsibility to ensure evidence of timely receipt (36 CFR 218.9).
Objections must be submitted to the reviewing officer: Randy Moore, Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region; Attn: Pumice Vegetation Management Project; 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592; or fax number (707)562-9229. Objections may be delivered during business hours Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm. Electronic objections, in common formats (.doc, .pdf, .rtf, .txt), may be submitted to: objections-pacificsouthwest-regional-office@usda.gov with Subject: Pumice Vegetation Management Project.
Objections must include: 1) name, address and telephone; 2) signature or other verification of authorship; 3) identification of a single lead objector when applicable; 4) project name, Responsible Official name and title, and name of affected National Forest(s) and/or Ranger District(s); 5) reasons for, and suggested remedies to resolve, your objections; and, 6) description of the connection between your objections and your prior comments (36 CFR 218.8(d)). Incorporate documents by reference only as provided for at 36 CFR 218.8(b).
For additional information about how to object, contact Bradley Barrett at Bradley.Barrett@usda.gov or 530-643-1302.
Bradley Barrett
