Tonto National Forest

The January 2021 Rescinded draft ROD explains the Tonto National Forest’s rationale and documents the Tonto’s proposed decision to authorize uses of National Forest System land by issuing a road use permit and special use authorizations for pipeline and power line corridors associated with the project.

At six volumes, the January 2021 Rescinded final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) describes the potential environmental effects from two proposed actions: a general plan of operations for development of a large-scale underground copper mine by Resolution Copper Mining, LLC.A related, and a legislatively-mandated land exchange.

Common and scientific names, taxonomy group, NatureServe global and state rankings, previous regional forester sensitive species for species of conservation concern for Tonto National Forest.

Letter from Neil Bosworth, Forest Supervisor, to Terry Rambler, Chairman, San Carlos Apache Tribe

Request to consider changes and provide written concurrence that the tailings storage facility as described in the GPO is no longer appropriate to analyze in detail, and that replacement with the modified centerline alternative identified by Resolution Copper as "Alternative 3A" is therefore warranted.

List of invasive species for the Tonto National Forest.

Families and individuals like to come to this site for its natural desert beauty and rock climbing.

The Forest Service is proposing changes to the current management of an area within the Globe Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest designated as the Apache Leap Special Management Area.

This errata sheet documents corrections to the text of the published EA, and should be reviewed along with the final EA. These corrections reflect instruction provided by the Objection Reviewing Officer in letters in December 2017.

The management direction in this plan is designed to protect the values for which the area was designated, and to guide limited uses compatible with the area’s primary purpose.