The U.S. Forest Service told the Natural Resources Management Advisory Commission that paving and parking-lot work at Lamoille is scheduled to begin "on the seventh," with a contractor allotted 30 days to complete the job.

Josh Nichols, district ranger for the Forest Service, said the planned closure will affect a pullout about 300–350 feet from the parking lot and that the Terrace picnic area will be used as overflow parking so trails will remain accessible. "We're not doing any trail closures of any kind, just the parking lot itself," Nichols said.

The Forest Service is also planning reconstruction of a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall above the Boy Scout camp in Lamoille; that project went out to bid last week and, if selected, is expected to start in early to mid-September and take two to three weeks to finish.

Nichols said a contractor is already slated to replace the Island Lake Trail Bridge and crews plan to fabricate the bridge and "actually fly it in via helicopter and set it down" in October; he added that brief closures of roads or the parking lot may be necessary for staging.

Greg Florey, acting deputy district ranger out of the Wells office, updated commissioners on recreation staffing and on Angel Lake Dam. Florey said engineers have completed studies and produced a reconstruction plan, but work is "probably not gonna happen this year" because contracting remains to be completed. He said the preferred plan would reconstruct the spillway to send flow out the front of the dam rather than the side, and that the change would lower the dam by about one foot.

Florey said staff negotiated to minimize impacts on the lake's fishery and that projected surface-area changes are "pretty minimal," adding that state regulations guided the design. "I asked is for the the least impact that satisfied the state regs as possible," he said.

No formal county or Forest Service actions were taken at the meeting; the briefing served as an informational update on schedules, contracting status and anticipated short-term closures.

Commissioners asked for schematics and timing details; Florey offered to email the plan schematics to interested commissioners.

Details: paving work — contractor 30-day completion window; MSE wall — bids overseen by Elko County; Island Lake Bridge — scheduled for October with helicopter installation; Angel Lake Dam — engineers' reconstruction plan submitted, contracting pending, likely work next year, projected ~1-foot lowering of dam and minimal surface-area change for the fishery.