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South Manti Timber Salvage Draft Environmental Impact Statement, United States Forest Service

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The South Manti project area is located approximately 45 miles southwest of Price, Utah. The project area consists of approximately 24,597 acres of National Forest System lands within the southern portion of the Wasatch Plateau (Townships 19, 20, and 21 South; Range 4 East; SLM). This project was initiated in response to epidemic spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) activity across the South Manti landscape. Extensive Engelmann spruce mortality has occurred as the result of epidemic spruce beetle populations. Representing over 10,000 acres, most of the spruce trees in the project area's Engelmann spruce-Subalpine fir cover type are dead or dying (70% …