Project Timeline
2025
10 Dec, 2025
- Pile burning of machine created landing piles start in Moser Creek area and will continue as conditions allow.
10 Dec, 2025
- Obliteration and decommissioning of a portion of the temporary road up into Kirk Hill area off of road #6216. Remaining portions of temporary roads will be in place until logging in those areas are complete.
10 Dec, 2025
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract-skyline tree felling and hauling of logs onto FS road #6216 and #6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands. Operations end for the season.
10 Dec, 2025
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract-skyline tree felling and hauling logs onto FS roads ##6216 and 6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands.
- Pile burning of commercial machine piles in Moser Creek area continues as weather conditions allow.
2024
30 Dec, 2024
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract- Skyline tree felling and hauling out logs onto FS road #6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands. Area closure remains in effect for public safety.
- Non-commercial fuels- Pile burning of commercial landing and machine piles in Moser Creek area.
30 Nov, 2024
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract- Skyline tree felling and hauling out logs onto FS road #6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands. Area closure remains in effect for public safety.
- Non-commercial fuels-Pile burning of commercial landing and machine piles starts in the Moser Creek area.
31 Oct, 2024
- BMW Helicopter stewardship timber sale contract-contract close out of completed timber harvest units by sale administration.
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract- Skyline tree felling and hauling out logs onto FS road #6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands. Area closure remains in effect for public safety.
- Non-commercial fuels-Burning of hand piles begin in the Moser Creek area and will continue through the winter season, depending on weather conditions. A broadcast burn on 116 acres (unit 19) was completed west of Langohr Campground. Campground and road closures in effect for public safety. The goal and objective of the prescribed burn was to reduce fuel loads and lower the risk of high severity wildland fires in the Bozeman municipal watershed.
30 Sep, 2024
- BMW Helicopter stewardship timber sale contract-This contract is now complete, 208 acres of large diameter tree thinning adjacent to Bozeman and Leverich Creeks accomplished. Weed spraying and grass seeding to follow.
- BMW Reoffer timber sale contract-Skyline tree felling and hauling out logs onto FS road #6210 continues above Kirk Hill on NFS lands. Area closure on NFS Lands remains in effect for public safety.
01 Aug, 2024
- Helicopter thinning near Leverich Canyon trail loop on #435 and #436 is complete and trail is back open for public use.
- Helicopter logging continues west of Bozeman Creek. Log trucks hauling on Nash Road to South 19th Street.
- Skyline logging continues above Kirkhill and hauling logs out of Moser on #6210 road and down Hyalite Canyon.
- Mastication contract in Moser area complete.
- Crews conducting small diameter thinning in Moser area off of the #6210 road.
- Weed contract spraying occurring in the project area along main roads and some decommissioned roads.