Vale District

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Leslie Gulch ACEC project environmental assessment
(2009-02) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Proposes in response to a request from representatives of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep (FNAWS), BLM will install certain fence and water development projects to protect California bighorn sheep habitat quality within the Leslie Gulch Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and Honeycombs Wilderness Study Area (WSA) OR-3-77A. Bighorn sheep water quality improvement and protection of Leslie Gulch ACEC values impacted by wild horses constitute the principle issues needing resolution.
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Vale District tumbleweed burn categorical exclusion review
(2009-01-13) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Excludes further environmental analysis of project to reduce the hazard and accumulation of tumbleweeds primarily along fence lines and roadways. Wind blown accumulations of tumbleweeds would be burned primarily along fence lines and roadways in the late fall, winter or early spring. The accumulated weeds would be burned in place with a prescribed burn during periods when there is little chance of fire escape to surrounding areas and would not require manual line construction. Treatment during the life of this project would be limited to less than 4500 acres.
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Pritchard Creek geographic unit grazing permit renewal November 2008 environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-11-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to renew four 10-year grazing permits for livestock producers located in the Baker Resource Area, Vale District BLM. BLM has been directed to renew and reissue all 10-year public land livestock grazing permits by October of 2009. The purpose of this environmental assessment (EA) is to analyze the environmental and socio-economic impacts of four different management alternatives, including continuation of current management, on the Pritchard Creek BLM allotment described in the "Rangeland Standards Assessment, Evaluation, and Determination: Pritchard Creek Geographic Unit" (USDI 2007).
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Pritchard Creek geographic unit grazing permit renewal 3606224 decision record
(2008-11-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Approves plan renewing the grazing lease for ten years. The changes made in the final EA (11/18/08) ensure BLM compliance with the sage-grouse guidelines, and defer grazing in the lek areas by preventing livestock concentrations two out of three years.
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Pritchard Creek geographic unit grazing permit renewal 3606260 decision record
(2008-11-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Approves plan renewing the grazing lease for ten years. In response to the protests, BLM initiated additional coordination with ODFW to verify sage-grouse lek protection and management actions.
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Pritchard Creek geographic unit grazing permit renewal 3606115 decision record
(2008-11-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Approves plan renewing the grazing lease for ten years. The changes made in the final EA (11/18/08) ensure BLM compliance with the sage-grouse guidelines, and defer grazing in the lek areas by preventing livestock concentrations two out of three years.
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Pritchard Creek geographic unit grazing permit renewal 3606243 decision record
(2008-11-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Approves plan renewing the grazing lease for ten years. In response to the protests, BLM initiated additional coordination with ODFW to verify sage-grouse lek protection and management actions.
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Star Valley Road maintenance material sites decision record
(2008-10-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Announces decision to implement project placing local sources of rock aggregate along the SVR to the Nevada border.
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Star Valley Road maintenance material sites finding of no significant impact
(2008-10-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Finds no further environmental study is needed for project proposing to place local sources of rock aggregate along the SVR to the Nevada border.
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Lime wind energy project environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-10-20) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Proposes to issue the applicant, Joseph Millworks Inc. of Baker City Oregon, a right-of-way (ROW) grant authorizing the right to install, operate, and maintain a wind development project on public lands. This ROW will include twelve wind turbines, six transformers, two electrical collectors, access roads, buried utility corridor and electrical line extension.
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Star Valley Road maintenance material sites environmental assessment
(2008-09) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Proposes to provide more sources of rock aggregate along the SVR to the Nevada border.
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Kleinhoff Old Auburn Road right-of-way environmental assessment
(2008-08-11) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The proposed action is to grant the applicant a right-of-way authorizing him the right to construct, operate, maintain, and terminate a road across public land. The requested right-of-way width is 40 feet and the length is approximately 710 feet, encumbering 0.65 acres, more or less. Approximately 552 feet of the existing road would continued to be used, however approximately 165 feet would be abandoned and about 158 feet of new road would be constructed.
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Jackies Butte herd management area gather environmental assessment
(2008-01-24) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The proposed action would be to remove approximately 114 horses from the Jackies Butte HMA in the fall of 2007. At least 75 horses would be returned to the Jackies Butte HMA, which is the minimum population of the range associated with the AML recommended in the SEORMP.
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Ontario to Quartz transmission line project environmental assessment
(2007-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The Proposed Action would be to amend the current ROW OR-01469 to recognize and authorize the Ontario-Huntington portion of the transmission line under Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 as amended (43 USC 1761) and the regulations found in 43 CFR 2800. This portion of the line is approximately 6.2 miles in length, 100 feet wide, encumbering approximately 75.14 acres of public land. With the amendment the entire length of the Ontario to Quartz line would be 13.13 miles in length, 100 feet wide, encumbering 159.17 acres, more or less. Further, the Proposed Action would amend ROW OR-01469 to allow IPC to grade a portion of an existing road and establish three new short service roads to access the existing 138 kV transmission line from Ontario to the Quartz Junction Substation (line 423). This work would improve access to five structures. The ROW grant would also authorize future O&M activities on the new service roads that would be created outside the current 100-ft ROW.
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South Fork Walla Walla landowner access finding of no significant impact
(2007-04-27) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Finds no further environmental study is needed for project allowing landowners to access their private land via a full-size vehicle using stream crossings for a five-month period from July 1 to August 15 and September 15 to January 1 each year. It would follow the same annual process of the BLM providing written permission after the steelhead, Chinook salmon and bull trout redds are monitored for emergence and dispersal of the fry. According to one of the landowners, use is estimated to be a combined total of approximately 90 landowner trips per year, (an average of 15 round trips a month for the six months, or of three round-trips a month per each of the five cabin families), (personal communication, John Ehart, June 28, 2006). This is an increase over the current estimate of 30 round-trips per year via full-size vehicle.
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Wells Basin allotment 1070 evaluation and grazing permit modification environmental assessment
(2007-02) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The Bureau of Land Management, Vale District, Baker Resource Area, proposes to implement management adjustments that would modify the existing 10-year grazing permits for the Wells Basin Allotment (#1070) including: 1. A decrease in active grazing preference within the allotment, going from 370 active AUMs to 272 active AUMs. One permit would go from 171 AUMs to 126 AUMs, and the other permit would go from 199 AUMs to 146 AUMs. 2. Adding to the terms and conditions of the permit the following language: "Utilization monitoring standards allow livestock to graze up to 50% on upland grasses, 45% on riparian sedges/grasses, and 30% on aspen. Active grazing use under this permit which contributes to exceeding the above utilization standards (at designated key areas) will result in a temporary reduction of 20% fewer AUMs of active use the following year. Two consecutive years of exceeding utilization standards will result in a year of rest (nonuse of this permit) the third year."
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South Fork Walla Walla landowner access decision record
(2007) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Announces decision to select the No Action alternative plus that portion of Alternative 1A, which implements NOAA Fisheries Conservation Recommendation #2 by building two small bridges over two pools located in the roadway.
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Sand Springs herd management area gather finding of no significant impact
(2006-08-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Finds no further environmental study is needed for project removing all of the horses from the Sand Springs HMA in the fall of 2006 for a period of two growing seasons. The proposed action would include eventual return of all freeze branded fertility control mares in the Sand Springs HMA as they cannot be placed in the adoption program. At least twenty mares treated with the fertility control drug, PZP, would be retained in short term holding to be returned to the HMA after two growing seasons. 100 horses would be returned to the Sand Springs HMA, which is the minimum population of the range associated with the AML recommended in the SEORMP. Other criteria for returning horses to the HMA would be to maintain herd characteristics.
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Three Fingers herd management area gather finding of no significant impact
(2006-08-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
Finds no further environmental study is needed for project removing an estimated 160 horses from the Three Fingers HMA to attain a thriving ecological balance between horses, wildlife, livestock, and vegetation. It will also allow for fertility treatment of mares to slow estrus to aid in maintaining wild horse populations at appropriate management levels (AML) and extend the gather period required to maintain AML.
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Sand Springs herd management area gather environmental assessment
(2006-08-07) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Vale District
The proposed action would be to remove all of the horses from the Sand Springs HMA in the fall of 2006 for a period of two growing seasons. The proposed action would include eventual return of all freeze branded fertility control mares in the Sand Springs HMA as they cannot be placed in the adoption program. At least twenty mares treated with the fertility control drug, PZP, would be retained in short term holding to be returned to the HMA after two growing seasons. 100 horses would be returned to the Sand Springs HMA, which is the minimum population of the range associated with the AML recommended in the SEORMP. Other criteria for returning horses to the HMA would be to maintain herd characteristics.