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FERNOW EXPERIMENTAL FOREST
10-YEAR RESEARCH ACTIONS
Opportunity to Provide Input
The USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Timber & Watershed Laboratory invites your input on a proposal to implement timber harvests, prescribed fire, and apply fertilizer to continue long-term research studies on the Fernow Experimental Forest over the next ten years. The Fernow Experimental Forest is located south of Parsons in Tucker County, West Virginia.
Potential activities include: commercial timber harvest by diameter-limit harvest on 67 acres; single-tree selection on 279.5 acres; 15-35 acres of patch clearcuts (each patch is 0.4 acre) within 136 acres; and prescribed fire treatment on 398 acres. Other treatments include annual fertilization of 4 acres with ammonium sulfate fertilizer (and additions of dolomitic lime to 2 of those acres).
For a copy of the scoping letter, dated April 29, 2020, which contains more information go to https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=57946. To provide input or obtain additional information on the proposed project, contact Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, at: USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, P.O. Box 404, Parsons, WV 26287; or by phone at 304-478-2000, extension 114. E-mail may be sent to: [email protected]. Please include the project name in the subject line of the email.
Your comments are important to the continued development of a well-planned project.
Your comments on this proposal will be most helpful to us if we receive them within 45 calendar days following publication of this notice in The Grant County Press.