The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest has released a final decision for the Bonanza Project in the Castle Mountains just east of White Sulphur Springs, officials said Thursday.
The project area is within 36,928 acres in Meagher County and includes National Forest System lands within the Checkerboard Creek, Flagstaff Creek, Middle North Fork Musselshell River, Alabaugh Creek, Muddy Creek and Fourmile Creek subwatersheds.
The project includes commercial timber harvest on 1,980 acres and prescribed burning on 918 acres, officials said.
The project area is within 36,928 acres in Meagher County.
U.S. Forest Service
“The project area is highly impacted by the mountain pine beetle and some areas have experienced 90% tree mortality,” District Ranger Jason Oltrogge said in a news release. “The timber generated from this project will provide wood products to local companies and prescribed fire