Project Timeline

2022
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
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
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
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
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
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.
February
  • Logging operations very active in Moser area
  • Log truck hauling timber on FS roads #6210, #6212N and #6215 down Hyalite Canyon
  • Heavy equipment being used to fell, skid, and process timber
  • Both tractor based and skyline logging operations in the Moser area
  • Closure order in lower Moser ridge area above Kirk Hill at the FS boundary effective January 26 – April 1, 2022
January
  • Logging operations active in Moser area
  • Temporary access road building in Moser area on NFS lands
  • Log truck hauling timber on FS roads #6210, #6212N and #6215 down Hyalite Canyon
  • Heavy equipment use and ground based yarding activities active in multiple units
  • Felling of tees in Skyline yarding units, skyline logging beginning in Moser area
  • Closure order in lower Moser ridge area above Kirk Hill at the FS boundary effective January 26 – April 1, 2022

(Closure includes NSF trails #428 located 0.5 mile from Kirk Hill trailhead, #429 in Hodgman Canyon, and FS road #6210. Closure applies to all uses, 7 days a week, for public health and safety.)

2021
December
  • Timber removal (Start of Sourdough Fuels Reduction Phase 2 ) – Sourdough Canyon/Bozeman Creek trail closure[BH]
  • Heavy truck use
  • Temporary access road building on USFS lands in Moser ridge area, including towards the Forest boundary near private
  • Timber felling, skidding, and processing and decking in Moser Road area on USFS lands
  • Log trucks hauling timber out of Moser Road down Hyalite Canyon
November
  • Timber removal (Start of Sourdough Fuels Reduction Phase 2 – Helicopter) – Sourdough Canyon/Bozeman Creek trail closure[BH] (Oct/November best guess for closure at this point)
  • Helicopter and heavy truck use
  • Closure of Sourdough Trail on City of Bozeman and USFS lands (FS Trail #454/#979) October 11th-November 8th and November 16-18th
  • City of Bozeman and USFS completes ground-based and helicopter treatments adjacent to Bozeman Creek
  • Log trucks hauling timber out of Sourdough Trail
  • Road maintenance grading and seeding of disturbed soils on Sourdough Trail
  • Temporary access road building on USFS lands in the Moser Road area