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  • Coal, Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
  • Conservation
    • Nothing new within the last 30 days.
  • Forestry
    • Forest Management
      • Sula North Aerial Weed Spraying 2012 (May 8, 2012)
        As part of an Integrated Weed Management Program (IWM) the DNRC, Hamilton Unit is proposing an aerial application of Transline, a clopyralid MEA salt, non-restricted use herbicide, on approximately 218 acres. The parcel is located within the Sula State Forest.  The purpose is to treat an infestation of spotted knapweed with the desired outcome of increasing the coverage of native grasses and forbs. This proposed noxious weed treatment includes the proposed herbicide application in 2012.
    • Timber Sales
      • ArrowTimber Sales up for Bid ArrowAdditional Timber Sale Information
      • ArrowTimber Sales Results    ArrowLand Board Meeting Information
         
      • Fish Bull Face Timber Sale Project (April 30, 2012)
        The Stillwater Unit, DNRC, is proposing a timber sale and several timber permits on approximately 505 acres near Stryker, MT.Proposed activities include several types of harvest prescriptions including regeneration type harvest and commercial thinning. The existing Fish Lake Road would be relocated away from the shores of Fish Lake and other existing roads would be improved. 
      • Tim Burke Two Timber Sale (April 20, 2012)
        Proposed timber harvest and transportation for State Trust Lands, Plains Unit, MT-DNRC.
      • Lower Corona Timber Sale (May 9, 2012)
        Proposed timber harvest and transportation for State Trust Lands, Plains Unit, MT-DNRC.
      • Mystery Fish Timber Sale Project (April 20, 2012)
        The Stillwater Unit of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) proposes to harvest approximately 5 million board feet of timber from 456 acres of ground approximately 5 miles north of Olney, MT. The project area totals 1,915 acres and includes existing and proposed roads needed to access and support the proposed project activities.
      • Libby Unit Office Timber Permit (April 17, 2012)
        Harvest 200MBF timber (salvage with some green) and remove old abandoned car.
      • Middle Jellsion Firewood (April 12, 2012)
        This project will salvage approximately 60 tons of blowndown timber from 13 acres during the summer or fall of 2012. The purpose of the project is to clean up the area, reduce fire hazard, return the area to timber production and recover revenue for the trust beneficiary. The permittee will be subject to the stipulations included in the permit contract.
      • Crispy Columbus Salvage Timber Permit (April 5, 2012)
        Commercial salvage harvest of an estimated 500 MBF of fire and insect damaged ponderosa pine  sawtimber.
      • Reid Divide/Logan Creek Timber Project (April 5, 2012)
        The Kalispell Unit, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) is proposing the Reid Divide/Logan Creek Timber Project. The project area is located approximately 16 air miles west of downtown Whitefish, Montana within Sections 16 & 36, T30N, R24W.  The acreage of state land involved in the project is held by the State in trust for the support of specific beneficiary institutions (Enabling Act, 1889: 1972 Montana Constitution, Article X, Section 11). s. 16 & 36 – Common Schools.
  • Land
    • Agriculture
      • 10331 CRP Break Request (May 9, 2012)
        The proponent is requesting permission to break approximately 317.3 acres of classified agland expired CRP on the State Land identified above for dryland small grain production.
      • 3123 Renovation Request (May 9, 2012)
        The proponent is requesting permission to renovate approximately 220 acres of native rangeland on the State Land identified above in order improve forage production and increase trust income that has been impacted by dense clubmoss and Blue Gramma soil capping. The project will be done in thirds to fit in the lessees management plan.
      • 7750 CRP Break Request (May 8, 2012)
        The proponent is requesting permission to break approximately 106 acres of classified agland espired CRP on School Trust Land for dryland small grain production.
      • Lease 10221 Gary Hemry Expiring CRP Break Request (April 30, 2012)
        CRP contract #486C containing 502.60 acres expires on 9/30/2012.  The lessee, Gary Hemry, has requested to break these expiring CRP acres.
      • McGinnis Meadows Fence Construction (April 24, 2012)
        The proponent has requested to build approximately 3 miles of 3 wire, high tensil, electric fence with wooden braces and corner posts.  The fence would be built along the West, North, and East property lines of Section 16, T26N, R28W, and along a short portion of the county road. Wire spacing from the ground up would be 18 inches to the bottom wire, 28 inches to the middle wire and 36 inches to the top wire.  This fence would allow the proponent to utilize state land for grazing while preventing livestock from entering the adjacent property.
      • Land Breaking of former conservation reserve acreage for dryland agricultural purposes (April 6, 2012)
        Department of Natural Resources and Conservation has received a writen request from the surface lessee to break an estimated 239.4 acres more or less of former conservation reserve program acreage. The acreage would be used for small grain and pulse crop production.  
      • Lease Number 10703 and 2826 (April 6, 2012)
        The surface lessee has requested permission to break an estimated 420.0 acres of former conservation reserve program acreage on State of Montana owned lands. The EA covers the environmental analysis of the request.
      • Eggebrecht Break Request (April 6, 2012)
        Brian Eggebrecht has requested to break 129.09 acres of former CRP land for small grain production.
      • Lease 4217 T & K Farms Inc. Expiring CRP Break Request (April 4, 2012)
        CRP contract #463C containing 1,384.30 acres expires on 9/30/2012. The lessee, T & K Farms Inc., has requested to break these expiring CRP acres. The CRP acres were not offered for re-enrollment.
      • Lease 3610 Robert and Terry Lee Carney Expiring CRP Break Request (April 4, 2012)
        CRP contract #947B containing 642.20 acres expires on 9/30/2012. The lessees, Robert & Terry Lee Carney, have requested to break these expiring CRP acres. The CRP acres were not offered for re-enrollment.
      • Lease 2141 Robert Appley Expiring CRP Break Request (April 4, 2012)
        CRP contract #381A containing 321.90 acres expires on 9/30/2012. The lessee, Robert Appley, has requested to break these expiring CRP acres. The CRP acres were not offered for re-enrollment.
      • Lease 4223 Bliss Farms Expiring CRP Break Request (April 4, 2012)
        CRP contract #694A containing 314.90 acres expires on 9/30/2012. The lessee, Bliss Farms, has requested to break these expiring CRP acres. The CRP acres were not offered for re-enrollment.
      • Lease 326 Harmon Ranch Inc. Expiring CRP Break Request (April 4, 2012)
        CRP contract #342C containing 104.20 acres expires on 9/30/2012. The lessee, Harmon Ranch Inc., has requested to break these expiring CRP acres. The CRP acres were not offered for re-enrollment. The tract was last farmed in 1987. The estimated acres that will be broke and returned to small grain production is 104.20 acres. The remaining 55.80 acres consists of grazing land. The lessee plans to spray the CRP on June 1st and direct seed the proposed break area to winter wheat the fall of 2012. This will result in a payment reduction for early outing the CRP which the lessee has agreed to pay for.
      • Judisch Livestock Fence (April 3, 2012)
        The proponent has requested to build approximately 1.15 miles of 4 barbed wire wood post fence along the two-track trail in the above listed sections. The fence will cross state owned rangeland in the three sections that are listed above. This fence will allow the proponent to utilize deeded, BOR, and state grazing land for fall grazing by preventing livestock from entering the steep areas. There is currently an old fence on a portion of the tracts which will be removed. The new fence will connect a fence on deeded and state land in Section 21 to a fence on BOR land in Section 16
      • O'Connor/McDowell Break Request (April 3, 2012)
        Conversion of Grazing Land to Crop Land
    • Land Exchanges
      • Nothing new within the last 30 days
    • Land Lease/Land Use License
      • NorthWestern Energy Optical Ground Wire Temporary Construction License (May 14, 2012)
        NorthWestern Energy is requesting a Temporary Construction License to allow the installation of an Optical Ground Wire on their existing 50kV overhead transmission line east of Big Timber that crosses the Yellowstone River.
      • Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. Installation (May 8, 2012)
        Installation of a new HDD (Horizontal Direction Drill) crossing and check valve for the Yellowstone Pipe Line Company’s 10” refined petroleum products pipe line at the East Gallatin River. 
      • LUL 3299 Chippewa Cree Road Use (May 8, 2012)
        The proponent is requesting a Land Use License to do maintenance and ingress egress on established road to quarry on Reservation lands. Secondary LUL or Right of Way Easement may be applied for the purpose of ingress egress to install and maintain an aerial tower on tribal land. .
      • Mid Rivers LUL #1271 (May 2, 2012)
        Land Use License for buried telecommunication cable
      • Borderview Bell Ranch Pipeline (April 4, 2012)
        Borderview Bell Ranch has request to install a pipeline across Section 36 - Twp. 37N – Rge. 38E in Valley County.
      • Oneok Stateline Pipeline (April 2, 2012)
        LUL for temoporary use of land for pipeline construction
    • Land Sales
      • Wood Gulch Repository Land Banking (April 17, 2012)
        To use the DNRC’s Land Banking process to sell approximately 12 acres of Capital Buildings Trust Land (surface state only) to the highest responsible bidder.  The area being proposed for sale is currently being leased by the Department of Environmental Quality for use as a repository to safely accumulate mine waste. It is anticipated that this use will continue following the sale. As the lessee, the DEQ is the party that nominated this parcel for Land Banking.
    • Recreational Use
      • Nothing new within the last 30 days.
    • Rights-of-Way/Easements
      • Hart Baitis Road Easement Application (May 15, 2012)
        Authorize use of an existing road and allow construction of a new road to access private property.
      • Range Telephone Fiber Optic Easement (May 3, 2012)
        Range Telephone Cooperative is applying for a 20’ easement in Treasure County in order to install underground fiber optic cable adjacent to an existing abandoned state highway
      • Lewis & Clark County road safety re-alignment projects 2012 (May 2, 2012)
        EA Checklist review of an application for  2 LUL's re-aligning two open public roads, to increase safety by improving sight distances.
      • Aye Encroachment Easement (April 13, 2012)
        John and Trenda Aye have requested an encroachment easement from the State Board of Land Commissioners for the purpose of perfecting title to property they own in T8N-R47E-Sec 28 in which a small portion of a garage has encroached onto state owned land in the abandoned channel of the Tongue River, known as the Tongue River Slough. The proposed easement encompasses an area of .086 acres.
      • Oneok Bakken Pipeline ROW and LUL (April 5, 2012)
        Right of Way Easement and Land Use License for construction of a 12.75 inch Natural Gas Liquids pipeline across State Trust Lands.
      • Northern Telephone easement application for buried fiber optics (April 2, 2012)
        Northern Telephone Cooperative, Inc. has requested to install a buried fiber optic cable to serve toll and distribution facilities and services across three tracts of state land. The proposed easement route is located along Flat Coulee Road in Sections 11 & 12, T37N, R4E and in Section 8, T37N, R5E. The fiber optic cable will be buried 42” deep and will be installed using a static plow
    • Weeds
      • Nothing new within the last 30 days.
    • Wind
      • Nothing new within the last 30 days.
  • Water
    • Dam Facilities, Reservoirs, and Hydropower
      • Nothing new within the last 30 days.
    • Water Rights
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