Sheep Creek Fire Salvage, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Beaverhead County, MT

This amended notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement is a correction of the original notice of intent published on July 11, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 133, page 41295-41296). This amendment includes text which was not included in the original notice of intent. The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of the salvage harvest of timber killed as a result of fire in the Canyon Creek, Boulder Creek, Cascade Creek, Sage Creek, and Runaway Creek drainages (herein referred to as the Sheep Creek project). The project area is located 15 miles west of Wisdom, Montana, north of State Highway 43, just west of the Placer Creek Road. The project area is outside of inventoried roadless areas.