Special Area Management

 

Documents in this collection are those land area planning documents that deal with a specified location or area rather than the national forest or ranger district as a whole.

Recent Submissions

  • Deschutes National Forest: A late successional reserve overview 
    Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.) (1995-09-01)
    Provides information to: 1) discuss the importance of LSRs for maintaining ecosystem and species viability, 2) discuss the vegetative composition and structural instability of each LSR, 3) discuss whether or not each LSR ...
  • Proposed modifications to Davis late successional reserve assessment 
    Crescent Ranger District (Or.) (2003-03-06)
    Proposes to modify the LSR guidelines to leave sufficient down wood in untreated blocks strategically located to meet existing guidelines and to allow adequately for treatments, proposed for the purpose of reducing fire ...
  • Metolius late successional reserve 
    Sisters Ranger District (Or.) (1996-08-08)
    Delineates thirteen Management Strategy Areas based on (1) common plant association groups; (2) known spotted owl and other late-successional associated species sites; (3) rural interface areas; (4) common silvicultural ...
  • Davis late-successional reserve assessment 
    Crescent Ranger District (Or.) (1995)
    Identifies six areas of existing and historic vegetative conditions and the wildlife species that could logically be managed to provide a similar habitat type and function: mixed conifer for northern spotted owl (54%), ...
  • Cultus Mountain Sheridan Mountain late-successional reserve assessment 
    Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.) (1996)
    Specific objectives of the LSR Assessment include: 1) Determine the Desired Conditions for the vegetative resources within the LSR in order to achieve the Standards and Guidelines that are specified within the NWFP; 2) ...
  • Cache late successional reserve: LSR assessment 
    Sisters Ranger District (Or.) (2000-05-30)
    Strategic document addresses the ecological significance of eastern Cascade disturbance regimes and the need to provide late-successional habitat conditions for species such as the northern spotted owl. The assessment ...
  • Big Marsh late successional reserves 
    Crescent Ranger District (Or.) (1997-10)
    Assessment addresses three LSRs within the Big Marsh Watershed : Crescent, Lower Big Marsh,and Upper Big Marsh, providing background, key questions and management strategies. Description of current conditions (forest ...
  • Upper Deschutes wild and scenic river and state scenic waterway comprehensive management plan 
    Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.) (1996-07)
    Direction of the plan stems from extensive analysis and considerations documented in the FEIS, and is based on Alternative 6. Includes background, implementation and coordination, outstandingly remarkable values and special ...
  • Granite Creek Tributary Mines initiation of CERCLA investigation memorandum 
    United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region (2007-02-20)
    Documents, pursuant to the guidelines of the National Oil and Hazardous Substance Contingency Plan (NCP), the decision to initiate a CERCLA investigation in nine locations at the Granite Creek Tributary Mines site. A Site ...
  • Upper Powder Watershed draft assessment 
    Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (Agency : U.S.) (2005)
    Unfinished draft analyzes the watershed and its thirteen subwatersheds to facilitate planning, implementation, and evaluation of forest management activities. Examines issues, including vegetation and forest health, riparian ...
  • Upper Grande Ronde Watershed analysis 
    Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (Agency : U.S.) (2004)
    Analyzes the watershed and its twelve subwatersheds to facilitate planing, implementation, and evaluation of forest management activities. Identifies existing conditions and provides an analytical framework and integration ...
  • Meadow Creek Watershed analysis 
    La Grande Ranger District (Or.) (2002)
    Documents the completed update for the 1994 Upper Grande Ronde Watershed Analysis, investigating needs, opportunities, priorities, effects, and success measurements. Includes description, issues, key questions and relevant ...
  • Beaver Creek watershed analysis 
    Waldport Ranger District (Or.) (2001-10)
    As required by the Northwest Forest Plan, the analysis discusses the ecological processes at work in the watershed, and focuses on older forests and coho salmon. Includes issues, findings, recommendations, and organizations ...
  • Supplement to the Marys River Watershed preliminary analysis 
    Siuslaw National Forest (Agency : U.S.) (2005)
    Documents an analysis of a portion of the Marys River Watershed, supplementing the information found in the 1999 preliminary analysis. Recommendations include forest and precommercial thinning, planting trees to restore ...