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Forest Service outlines Highway 57 linear fuel break and Sandpoint salvage plan; Chloride Gold draft to go to public
Summary
District rangers said the Highway 57 linear fuel break will use Good Neighbor Authority with Idaho Department of Lands and categorical exclusion allowances (up to 3,000 acres, up to 1,000 ft width), and that salvage timber sales and a draft Chloride Gold proposed action will be released for stakeholder review with environmental analysis expected later in June.
Chris Noise, district ranger at Priest Lake, and Andrew Scowland, district ranger for the Sandpoint Ranger District, briefed Bonner County commissioners on several landscape‑scale forest projects on April 14.
Noise described the Highway 57 linear fuel break as a corridor‑based treatment using Good Neighbor Authority with the Idaho Department of Lands to identify units along the highway corridor from Priest River to the Lamb Creek community. "We're using ... categorical exclusion ... allows us to treat up to 3,000 acres and up to 1,000 ft in total width to a linear feature," Noise said, adding…
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