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Item Open Access Bitter Cherry timber sale decision documentation(2008-06-25) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement project thinning approximately 1985 acres of conifer and converting some 264 acres of red alder to conifer in 35-65 year old stands within the Middle Creek subwatershed. Also includes new road construction, road improvement, and road decommissioning and closure.Item Open Access Broken Wagon DMT timber sale decision documentation(2007-03-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision implementing density management thinning harvests on 178 acres of conifer-dominated EA units and 126 acres of hardwood conversion, including removal of all red alder and thinning of existing conifers, on 6 hardwood-dominated EA units. Also includes constructing roughly 1 mile of new road, renovation of roughly 21 miles of existing roads, and improvement of less than .1 mile of existing road. Roughly 3 miles of constructed and existing roads would be decommissioned with this timber sale.Item Open Access Brummed Out DMT timber sale decision documentation(2008-07-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision implementing density management thinning harvests on 302 acres of conifer-dominated EA units and 62 acres of hardwood conversion, including removal of all red alder and thinning of existing conifers, on 3 hardwood-dominated EA units. Also includes construction of 1.73 miles of new road, and renovation of 4.7 miles of existing roads. A total of 4.99 miles of constructed and existing roads would be decommissioned.Item Open Access Busy Signal CT timber sale decision record(2009-01-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision approving project implementing commercial thinning totaling 45 acres and density management thinning totaling 50 acres in dense conifer stands. The Busy Signal CT Timber Sale will require construction of 0.17 miles of new roads, and renovation of 4.18 miles of existing roads. A total of 1.53 miles of newly constructed and renovated roads will be decommissioned with this timber sale.Item Open Access Butler Creek CT timber sale decision documentation(2008-08-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision implementing commercial thinning on 436 acres, creating 163 snags and felling 109 trees for coarse woody debris, and constructing 2.91 miles of new road while decommissioning 1.86 miles.Item Open Access Camas Powerline CT timber sale decision documentation(2007-07-13) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces implementation of project commercially thinning 219 acres and density management thinning on 77 acres, on trees less than 80 years. Also includes construction of one mile of new road, renovation of 9.9 miles of existing road, and decommissioning of 2.3 miles of road.Item Open Access Cherry Wall DMT timber sale decision documentation(2008-07-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces implementation of density management thinning harvests totalling 302 acres on 9 conifer-dominated EA units, and 62 acres of hardwood conversion, including removal of all red alder and thinning of existing conifers on 6 hardwood-dominated EAs. Includes construction of .96 mile of new road, renovation of 10.77 miles of existing road, and decommissioning of 2.76 miles of roads.Item Open Access Chopsticks stewardship restoration project decision documentation(2007-09-25) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement density management thinning within Late-Successional and Riparian Reserves on 65 acres on trees less than 80 years, and renovate .5 mile of road.Item Open Access Coos Bay 2009 and 2010 sample tree falling categorical exclusion documentation(2008-11-03) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to fall, buck and scale sample trees ("sample tree felling") during the 2009 and 2010 calendar year to ensure the accuracy of timber cruises for future forest management actions. Trees would be felled only in areas that have been planned, marked, and cruised for timber harvest. Felled trees would be a subset of the trees designated for removal in the timber harvest area. The proposed action would be implemented on the above listed timber sale projects on the Coos Bay District as a precursor to timber sale contract preparation.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 fire line construction categorical exclusion review(2008-10-11) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictCategorically excludes fire line construction project in support of slash disposal operations. The topography and terrain often dictate where the location for fire lines is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner locate fire lines on neighboring BLM lands. Fire lines would be strategically located on both BLM and privately owned lands thus maximizing prescribed fire managers opportunities to safely contain and control the prescribed burn. Proper location of fire lines will reduce the chances of an escaped fire and thereby help to reduce potential impacts to watershed resources in the general area of the burn operations. Seasonal restrictions may be required to minimize impacts to T&E species, as outlined in the current Biological Opinion. Fire lines would be cleared of vegetation to a width of eight (8) feet. Within the fire line the fire trail would be cleared to mineral soil to a width of three (3) feet. Water bars would be constructed across all fire trails following the slope guidelines below. Water bars would consist of a six inch deep trench oriented at a 30- to 45-degree angle with respect to the fire line. Water bars would extend approximately six inches beyond the width of the fire trail.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 removal of roadway salvage and hazard trees categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictCategorically excludes project of single salvage sales less than 50 mbf in compliance with Coos Bay Instruction Memorandum OR120-2007-03. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 road maintenance categorical exclusion review(2008-10-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision that no further analysis is required on project for annual, seasonal, monthly, weekly, and daily maintenance of nearly 2000 miles of BLM maintained logging roads. These roads are maintained by BLM maintenance crews and private contractors in conformance with the Western Oregon Transportation Plan. Routine maintenance activities and emergency repairs are needed to keep the road system functional and drainage systems operational.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 sale of special forest products categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces no further analysis is required on project. Under the Special Forest Products Program, contracts, including permits and tags, would be offered and administered for harvesting a variety of special forest products. Contracts may include Form 5450-5 for the sale of vegetative material up to a value of $2499.00 and Form 5450-1 for the sale of vegetative material over $2500.00, Christmas tree tags, and free use permits. Products to be harvested include, but are not limited to; firewood, posts and poles, chips, cedar wood products, transplant stock (tree seedlings, shrubs, and herbaceous plants), cut sticks, moss, beargrass, boughs and Christmas trees, other floral greenery, cones, burls, bark, roots, pitch, and fungi. Except for wood products, the items listed in this Categorical Exclusion review will be harvested manually. Wood products will involve the use of mechanical equipment such as chainsaws, tracked log skidder, cable yarding equipment, helicopter, loader and log trucks. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy. All Research Natural Areas, developed recreation sites, and special status fauna and flora sites will be excluded from harvest.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 tailhold and guyline requests categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces no further analysis is required on project. Use of tailhold and guyline trees to facilitate logging operations is a common occurrence throughout this region. The topography and terrain dictate the location where the use of these trees is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner must utilize trees on neighboring BLM lands. Use of tailholds on BLM will allow the operator to achieve better log suspension thereby reducing impacts to soil and watershed resources in the harvest area. Guyline trees are required for the safe operation of the yarding equipment. This CX pertains to requests from adjacent landowners that are not currently authorized through Reciprocal Right-of-Way Agreements.Item Open Access Edson thin CT timber sale decision documentation(2008-08-20) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement project managing tree densities on about 490 acres and constructing 3.3 miles of new road, renovating or improving 22 miles of road, decommissioning 10.6 miles of road, and creating snags and downed. Also includes red alder conversion harvest.Item Open Access Edson thin environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact(2008-04-04) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictEA proposes to manage tree densities on about 490 acres and construct 3.3 miles of new road, renovate or improve 22 miles of road, decommission 10.6 miles of road, and create snags and downed. FONSI approves project for proposed commercial thinning, density management, and red alder conversion harvest projects.Item Open Access Elk Creek CT timber sale decision documentation(2007-10-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement project thinning approximately 2230 acres of young conifer stands in the Matrix and Riparian Reserve land use allocations, restoring approximately 73 acres of alder-dominated stands to mixed conifer, regeneration harvesting 467 acres of stands between 60 and 180 years old, constructing 6.7 miles of new road, renovating or improving 14.6 miles of existing roads, and decommissioning 26.2 miles of road.Item Open Access Green Peak timber sale decision documentation(2006-08-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement regeneration harvest of approximately 189 acres, a commercial thinning of about 906 acres, construction of 1.9 miles of new road, renovation or improvement of 11.5 miles of road, and decommissioning 2.3 net miles of road.Item Open Access Hantz Creek culvert replacement decision record(2008-08-01) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision to implement project removing a stream crossing culvert and its associated headgate and concrete fish-way. A concrete bridge would be constructed to maintain access, allowing the stream bottom to return to its natural state, and allowing free-flowing access to approximately 1.25 miles of habitat for salmonids.Item Open Access King Myrtle environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact(2008-11-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe proposed action is to implement silvicultural treatments on approximately 700 acres of BLM administered lands. This action would include thinning of conifer stands in the GFMA, Late-successional Reserves (LSR), and Riparian Reserve (RR) land-use allocations. All of the thinning treatments in this action would yield commercial wood products; however, thinning in the GFMA is termed commercial thinning (CT) while thinning in the LSR and RR is termed density management thinning (DMT) because of differing management objectives.