OBJECTION FILING PERIOD?
Buckeye Integrated Resource Restoration Project #56965
Umpqua National Forest, Tiller Ranger District
As the Responsible Official, Acting District Ranger Calib Baldwin prepared a draft Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (DN/FONSI) for the Buckeye Integrated Resource Restoration Project Environmental Assessment (EA).? The draft DN would authorize implementation of the Buckeye Integrated Resource Restoration Project proposed action.?
Information regarding this project is available for your review on the project website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/projects/56965 ?
The project is on the Umpqua National Forest within the Buckeye Creek Subwatershed located in the Tiller Ranger District. The Project has been designed to promote forest structural diversity and watershed health, to develop a more disturbance resistant landscape, to provide research opportunities, and to provide opportunities for the local economy. The treatment area in the project boundary is about 5,352 acres.
The proposed activities include commercial thinning within both plantation and natural origin stands. Commercial thinning would occur both within and outside of the South Umpqua Experimental Forest. Road maintenance will occur along the roads associated with timber haul. The project will also include non-commercial thinning, prescribed burning, treatment of activity generated fuels, road storage, road additions, road decommissioning, and dispersed campsite changes.
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 regarding the proposed project unless based on new information arising after the designated comment period(s).?
Written objections must be submitted within 45 days following the publication of this legal notice in The News-Review, the newspaper of record. 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: Melany Glossa, Forest Supervisor, USDA Forest Service; Attn: Buckeye IRR Project; 777 NW Garden Valley Blvd Roseburg, OR 97471. Phone 541-440-4930
Objections may be submitted via email, mail or delivered during business hours (M-F 8:00am to 4:00pm). Electronic objections, in common (.doc, .pdf, .rtf) formats, may be submitted to comments-pacificnorthwest-umpqua@usda.gov with the subject: Buckeye IRR Project. Objections may also be submitted through the project website online at https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/projects/56965, by expanding the “Get Connected” group and using the “Comment/Object on Project” link. In cases where no identifiable name is attached to an electronic message, a verification of identity will be required. A scanned signature is one way to provide verification.
Objections must include (36 CFR 218.8(d)):? 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, contact Kaitlin Tidwell at kaitlin.tidwell@usda.gov or by phone at 541-496-4194.
Amy Rusk
