(MT) Helena National Forest, Lewis & Clark County

Helena National Forest, Lewis & Clark County, MT; North Belts Travel Plan

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[Federal Register: February 14, 2003 (Volume 68,
Number 31)]
[Notices]
[Page 7495-7496]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Forest Service



Helena National Forest, Lewis & Clark County, MT;
North Belts Travel Plan


AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.


ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental
impact statement
(EIS).


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SUMMARY: The Helena National Forest is proposing a
revision of the
existing year-round travel management plan in the
northern portion of
the Big Belt Mountains and portions of the Dry Range
on the Helena and
Townsend Ranger Districts. This travel plan will
include analysis on
roads and trails regarding year-round and seasonal,
open and closed
motorized and non-motorized routes. In addition,
potential travel
corridors connecting roads and trails are being
considered. This EIS
will be prepared displaying the anticipated effects of
the above
activities to the resources and human uses of the
analysis area.
Closure methods will be identified and improvement
projects to
rehabilitate routes will be analyzed. The North Belts
Travel Planning
area includes about 190,000 acres from the Forest
boundary north of the
Gates of the Mountains Wilderness south to about the
southern boundary
of the Confederate Gulch drainage and portions of the
Dry Range.


DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the analysis
must be received
by March 14, 2003. The draft EIS is expected April
2003 and the final
EIS is expected April 2004.