Final Environmental Impact Statement For The Beaverhead National Forest Land And Resource Management Plan

In a June 14, 2016 Order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana directed the Forest Service to supplement the 2009 Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) FEIS with an evaluation of potential environmental consequences from MOUs signed in 2002 and 2008. The MOUs, signed by the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Bureau of Land Management, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and two domestic sheep producers, describe how the parties would cooperate to facilitate reintroduction of bighorn sheep into the Greenhorn Mountains south of Alder, Montana. After evaluating potential environmental consequences of the 2002 and 2008 MOUs and a modification completed in 2016, the responsible official will consider the analysis in this SEIS and public comment to determine whether an amendment to Forest Plan direction is needed.