Project Timeline
2022
March
- Logging operations are very active in the Moser area including both tractor based and skyline logging.
- Timber hauling via log truck on FS roads #6210, #6213, and down Hyalite Canyon.
- Heavy equipment has been used to fell, skid, and process timber.
- Closure at lower Moser ridge area above Kirk Hill at the FS boundary (closed effective January 26th) is lifted as of April 1, 2022.
- Skyline logging activities will resume June 1, 2022.
- Temporary roads will be rehabbed after all logging is complete in the area.
May 2022
- Small diameter tree thinning with chainsaws in Leverich Gulch
- Small diameter tree thinning in Moser Creek and Leverich Gulch will continue into the summer/fall
- Thinned woody material will be piled in select areas away from trails
- Piles will be burned next year in the late fall/winter, when conditions allow
June 2022
- Pre-haul road maintenance on the Moser Roads will occur this summer
- Skyline yarding will occur in Moser area into July
- Small diameter tree thinning and piling in Moser Creek and Leverich Gulch
- All ground-based tractor logging units are complete
- More than 400 acres of small diameter thinning is currently occurring, and will be implemented throughout the summer. This work is completed by hand-crews, leaving small piles throughout the under story. The piles will then be treated with prescribed fire during the winter months.
- Log decks from last winter and from the skyline logging will be hauled out this summer
- Additional tree marking and contract preparation for future helicopter treatments will be occurring this summer
July 2022
- Road maintenance on hauling roads in Moser area
- Skyline yarding occurring in Moser area
- Temporary road decommissioning in Moser area
- Slashing of damaged residuals from commercial timber harvest
- Small diameter tree thinning and piling in Moser Creek and Leverich Gulch
- Hauling of log decks from last winter down Moser Creek and Hyalite Canyon
- Skyline yarding activities will resume in the fall
- Tree layout, marking and contract preparation for future helicopter treatments
August 2022
- All logging activity complete for season
- All road reconstruction complete
- Monitoring and inspection of small diameter thinning
- Erosion control seeding
- Weed spraying and monitoring of haul/temporary roads
- Preparation work for broadcast burning in unit adjacent to Langohr campground
September 2022
- Erosion control seeding
- Small diameter thinning/piling force account in Leverich area
- Preparation work for broadcast burning in unit adjacent to Langohr campground
October 2022
- Erosion control seeding
- Small diameter thinning/piling force account in Leverich area
- Handpile burning in Leverich and Moser areas
November 2022
- Handpile and landing burning in Leverich and Moser areas
2023
July 2023
- Preparation work for broadcast burning in unit adjacent to Langohr campground
- Small diameter thinning/piling force account work in Leverich area
August 2023
- Helicopter logging stewardship contract awarded for approximately 200 acres of thinning
- Helicopter large diameter thinning would occur adjacent to water intake on Bozeman Creek
- Small diameter thinning/piling force account work in Leverich area
- Weed spraying of temporary and haul roads