[Vision2020] Lochsa land exchange bumped back to July

[Moscow Cares]

Courtesy of this week's Idaho County Free Press at:

http://www.idahocountyfreepress.com/IFPNews3.shtml
 
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Lochsa land exchange bumped back to July

FS proposes swap for WPT lands

By Andrew Ottoson - sports/outdoors reporter

   The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest's first quarter 'schedule of proposed action' notes a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the Upper Lochsa Land Exchange is now expected in July. 

   The Western Pacific Timber company presently owns roughly 40,000 acres of land in a checkerboard pattern near Lolo Pass, which the Forest Service intends to acquire through the proposed land trade. The amounts and locations of parcels WPT stands to acquire under an administrative trade depend on the environmental analysis and appraisal under way - as well as the Forest Service's discretion in striking a bargain with the company. WPT may also pursue a legislative trade, under which Congress would make the final decision.

   The proposal became controversial locally when, in 2011, the Idaho County Commission asked the Forest Service to consider carrying out the trade entirely within Idaho County, prompting the Forest Service to analyze roughly 45,000 acres in the southern part of the county.

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