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Environmental Documents
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NOTE: The environmental document may not be the complete document. However, a complete 'hard copy' that includes all exhibits is available for your review through the interlibrary loan program of the Montana State Library. Environmental documents are listed by division, with the most recent EA posted first.
MEPA--Public Participation Guide: A tool to assist the public in providing quality comments on Montana's environmental projects.
Conservation and Resource Development Division
None at this time
Noxious Weeds
None at this time
Forestry Division – Service Forestry
• 2004 Best Management Practices Audit (pdf)
Alternative Practices Environmental Assessment
Mote Lumber (pdf - May 22, 2009)
Proponent is requesting an SMZ Alternative Practice to Rule 4:, Operation of Equipment in the SMZ. Mote Lumber is currently harvesting timber adjacent Colorado Gulch Road on land belonging to India Supera, which is located near Helena, Montana. Proponent would like to operate machinery in the SMZ to cut and remove trees using a feller buncher. Activity would take place during dry ground conditions to access mountain pine beetle infested lodgepole pine…
Trust Land Management Division
Quarterly Environmental Assessment List (pdf - April 13, 2009)
Agriculture & Grazing Management Bureau
Lease#5852-Improvement, Fertigation Buried Main Line (pdf - June 22, 2009)
he surface lessee has requested to install a 10” buried main line from an existing pivot main line that is on private ground to the center point of a pivot that irrigates state and private ground. Than the surface lessee wants to continue the 10” buried main line from the center point of the pivot to another existing main line that is on private ground…
Lease#6025-Improvement, Livestock Water Develpment (pdf - June 22, 2009)
The surface lessee has requested to finish a stock water project that was started in 1999. The lessee wants to tie into an existing water line that is on state land and install an addition water line across the state land to a water tank that services both state and private land…
Turner Enterprises Incorporated Fence Line Replacement Application (pdf - May 22, 2009)
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation received a request from Turner Enterprises, Inc. to replace approximately 2.5 miles of 4 strand barbed wire fence with a 5 wire high tensile electric fence lines. The purpose of the replacement is to increase the effectiveness of the boundary between TEI bison and Ruby – Dell Ranch cattle on adjacent State Trust Land leases and BLM permits…
Forest Management Bureau
HCP Draft Environmental Impact Statement (pdf – June 26, 2009)
The following documents are part of Montana DNRC’s application for an Incidental Take Permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…
Land Easements
Big Hole River Boring Project (pdf - May 13, 2009)
Install underground telecommunications cables under the Big Hole River bed by boring under the river…
Land Use Licenses
Whitefish Trail Runs Through It Project, Phase 1A (pdf - June 12, 2009)
The proposed project area is located on State Trust lands approximately two miles west of Whitefish and just east of Skyles Lake, more specifically described as Sections 33 & 34, T31N, R22W. The proposed Phase 1A trail would extend from Lion Mountain Loop Road to the existing parking lot at the Two Bear gate and the north boundary of the State ownership in Section 33. The applicant proposes to build approximately 5 miles of trail, approximately 700 linear feet of road, a parking area, and sanitation facilities to accommodate use of this area. The trail will be constructed to International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) standards and will require approximately 300 feet of stone to be removed by blasting. Some thinning of submerchantible (brush and small diameter) timber may occur up to 50 feet on either side of the trail, under DNRC oversight and to DNRC standards…
MCR LLC Road Use / Access (pdf - May 29, 2009)
The applicant has applied for a LUL for access across approximately 850 feet of state land to drill an oil well on adjacent private land. The proposed route will utilize an existing unimproved 2-track trail along the edge of a hay field. The access route will be used various drilling and service equipment. If the well is a producer, the applicant will need to secure long term access across state land…
Land Banking
Sale #567--Watson Land Banking Nominations – 2009 review (pdf - June 15, 2009)
Offer for Sale at Public Auction, up to 15 acres of state land currently held in trust for the benefit of the Common School Trust. Revenue from the sale would be deposited in a special account, with monies from other sales around the State, to purchase replacement lands meeting acquisition criteria related to legal access, productivity, potential income and proximity to existing state ownership which would then be held in trust for the benefit of the same Trust…
Minerals Management Bureau
Gravel Permit G-1442-09 (pdf - June 15, 2009)
The applicant has applied for a gravel permit to remove about 5,500 yards of pit run material. The pit run will be removed from an area that was previously mined in the “Letz Gravel Pit”…
Non-Trust Lands
Land and Easements Exchange Between Central City, LLC and The Montana Heritage Preservation and Development Commission (pdf - May 21, 2009)
The Montana Heritage Preservation and Development Commission proposes a land and easement exchange with Central City, LLC involving eleven related property transfers. The property transfers proposed are described below, from west to east up Alder Gulch, and illustrated on the attached Exhibit A to this EA…
Real Estate Management Bureau
Coffee Creek Land Exchange (pdf – May 27, 2009)
The DNRC and Anne and Christine Orning propose an exchange of 80 acres of school trust land for 80 acres of private land, in Fergus County. The exchange is proposed in order to consolidate land ownership boundaries between state and private land and to transfer an existing homesite from state to private ownership. Land management and recreational access would improve as a result of the exchange…
Rights of Way
3 Rivers Communications Easement (pdf – June 17, 2009)
This easement is for a Copper Utility Line placed under construction license #CL-0046-CLO, obtained 10/24/2003. It parallels the existing road across the State Land, and is 20 feet wide, 10 feet on each side of the centerline totaling 1.9 acres, and for new placement of a Fiber Optic Cable Utility Line placed adjacent and parallel to the existing Copper Cable…
Timber/Forest Related
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Lyons Creek Flood Damage Repairs (pdf – June 22, 2009)
During the spring of 2008, flood damages occurred to various areas in the Lyons Creek and Wolf Creek drainages. In section 20 of Lyons Creek, stream flows eroded a new cut bank, taking ~ half the width of a private driveway which had been on trust land since the at least the 1980s…
Lime Ruby Timber Sale (pdf – June 4, 2009)
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC) propose a combination of vegetation treatments, road construction, acquisition of two easements and granting a right of way and related projects to reduce the risk and damage associated with a windstorm that occurred in the Judith Mountains…
Lion Mountain #2 Timber Sale (pdf – June 4, 2009)
The Kalispell Unit, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is proposing the Lion Mountain Fuels Reduction Project. The project area is located approximately 2 miles west of downtown Whitefish, Montana within Section 34, T31N, R22W. The acreage of state land involved in the project is held by the State in trust for the support of specific beneficiary institutions…
Shiloh Road Timber Sale (pdf – June 4, 2009)
The primary objective of the Shiloh Road Timber Sale is to generate income for the Public Building (PB) trust. The land parcel involved in this proposed project is located in Section 10 T21N, R26W. This project would provide an estimated 750 MBF of merchantable timber toward the Northwestern Land’s FY 2009 timber sale program targeted volume goal…
Six Hills Timber Sale (pdf – May 27, 2009)
The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation , Libby Unit is proposing commercial timber harvests on approximately 1,423 acres over six parcels of trust land located in T29N R28W Sec. 16 (Richards Creek), T29N R28W Sec. 14 (Backus Creek), T28N R30W Sec. 16 (Poker Hill), T28N R29W Sec. 36 (Lower McKillop Creek), T28N R28W Sec. 16 (Snell Creek), and T28N R29W Sec. 16 (Harris Creek)….
Hoodoo's Beetle Salvage EA (pdf – June 4, 2009)
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), Southwestern Land Office, Anaconda Unit, proposes to salvage harvest timber from State owned School Trust Lands in parts of three sections, North of Deer Lodge, Montana. The proposed project area encompasses 1,913 acres of State School Trust Lands within T11N, R10W, Sections 16 (Baldy Mountain) and 36 (Warm Springs); it also includes T12N, R10W, Section 36 (No Name Creek). The proposed harvesting would salvage approximately 10 MMBF from 1,007 acres. To remove the timber 11.05 miles of new road would be constructed...
Beaver/Swift/Skyles Timber Sale (pdf – June 6, 2009) (Comment period through June 8, 2009)
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) is proposing to harvest approximately 5.0 MMbf from 832 acres of forested state trust lands surrounding Whitefish Lake in the Stillwater and Kalispell Units. Approximately 3.5 miles of temporary road would be constructed to access harvest areas. These roads would be reclaimed to near natural contours following use…
Beaver/Swift/Skyles EA Responses to Public Comments
This document contains DRNC’s responses to public comments received during the public review period for the Beaver/Swift/Skyles EA.
June 16, 2009 Modification to Finding
This document is the modified finding for the Beaver/Swift/Skyle EA.
Water Resources Division
Water Right Environmental Assessments
