Project Timeline

2023
September 2023
  • Road reconstruction/maintenance in Moser area for pre-work on helicopter contract
  • Hauling out of remaining log decks from Moser area
  • Upcoming closure necessary on Sourdough Canyon/Bozeman Creek trail
  • Small diameter thinning/piling force account work in Leverich area
  • Monitoring of weed spraying contract
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
July 2023
  • Preparation work for broadcast burning in unit adjacent to Langohr campground
  • Small diameter thinning/piling force account work in Leverich area
2022
November 2022
  • Handpile and landing burning in Leverich and Moser areas
October 2022
  • Erosion control seeding
  • Small diameter thinning/piling force account in Leverich area
  • Handpile burning in Leverich and Moser areas
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