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Item Open Access Deep Creek watershed restoration environmental assessment(2004-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to improve watershed health by restoring and managing highly impacted streams, restoring streams to a more desired pattern, profile, and dimension, and improving aquatic habitats to support redband trout populations. Includes replacing culverts to allow passage of flood flows and improving upstream access for redband trout, creating water developments, exclosures, and placing large wood to distribute livestock better, repairing headcuts and exposed cutbanks, closing and decommissioning roads, and reconstructing channel reaches to reduce instream sedimentation.Item Open Access Deep vegetation management project final supplementary environmental impact statement summary(2004-01) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to improve improve vegetative diversity, reduce the current fire hazard, improve the amount of shade producing vegetation and large woody material for streams, and reduce sedimentation from roads. Includes improvement cutting (5688), commercial thinning (562 acres), clearcutting with reserve trees (60 acres), precommercial thinning (6285 acres), fuels treatments including underburning, and other activities such as riparian planting (28 miles), culvert replacement, road closing and decommissioning, and aspen, willow, and meadow enhancement.Item Open Access Deep vegetation management project record of decision(2004-01) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement Alternative C of project Supplementary EIS, to improve vegetative diversity, reduce the current fire hazard, improve the amount of shade producing vegetation and large woody material for streams, and reduce sedimentation from roads. Includes improvement cutting (5688 acres), commercial thinning (562 acres), clearcutting with reserve trees (60 acres), precommercial thinning (6285 acres), fuels treatments including underburning, and other activities such as riparian planting (28 miles), culvert replacements, road closing and decommissioning, and aspen, willow, and meadow enhancement.Item Open Access Murray fire salvage decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2003-06-19) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 of project EA, with modifications for higher levels of snag retention. Includes salvaging approximately 577 MBF of trees that are dying or were killed by the July 2002 wildfire, and to plant about 157 acres of ponderosa pine conifers. Also includes seedling protective measures against big game and pocket gophers for four years.Item Open Access Murray fire salvage environmental assessment(2003-04) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to salvage approximately 514 MBF of trees that are dying or were killed by the July 2002 wildfire, and to plant conifers within a 140-acre area. Includes seedling protective measures against big game and pocket gophers for four years.Item Open Access Rager wildland urban interface (WUI) fuels project decision memo(2007-09-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces implementation of underburning of 2770 acres, non-commercial thinning of 1000 acres, and machine piling of 123 acres to reduce the threat of uncharacteristically intense wildfire.Item Open Access Southside allotments draft environmental assessment(2008-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to continue authorization of livestock grazing in the Heisler, Wind Creek, and Wolf Creek allotments using new grazing management standards and an adaptive management strategy. Use standards, known as Composite Pasture Resource Rating (CPRR), would be implemented pasture by pasture based on a weighted compilation of five different resource features (riparian vegetation, upland vegetation, soils, stream channel characteristics, and noxious weed risk), as well as a multiple resource assessment.Item Open Access Sugar Creek campground vegetation management decision memo(2007-05-29) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement the project, commercially harvesting 34 acres of ponderosa pine and non-commercially thin 55 acres of overly dense, second-growth ponderosa pine stands that are imminently susceptible to attack by bark beetles. Includes natural fuels burning on 21 acres, slash treatment, and planting of trees and shrubs.Item Open Access Turnpike Pit medusahead control decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2005-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of the project EA, controlling the medusahead population within the Turnpike Pit on the southeast edge near the 5840-780 entrance road before it spreads to adjacent grasslands using the herbicide glyphosate (Glypro).Item Open Access Turnpike Pit medusahead control environmental assessment(2005-03) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to control the medusahead population within the Turnpike Pit on the southeast edge near the 5840-780 before it spreads to adjacent grasslands, using the herbicide glyphosate (Glypro).Item Open Access Turnpike Pit medusahead control environmental assessment (final)(2005-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to control the medusahead population within the Turnpike Pit on the southeast edge near the 5840-780 entrance road before it spreads to adjacent grasslands, using the herbicide glyphosate (Glypro).Item Open Access Westside allotments decision notice, finding of no significant impact, and environmental assessment(2005-09) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)EA proposes to continue authorization of grazing on the Deep Creek, Derr, Happy, Little Summit, and Roba allotments within the Deep Creek watershed and portions of the Mountain Creek, Rock Creek, Paulina Creek, and lower North Fork Crooked River watersheds. Includes use of new grazing management standards implemented based on an assessment of the level at which resources with pastures or allotments are functioning, including utilization levels for riparian and upland herbaceous and woody vegetation, stubble height along the greenline, stream bank alteration, and soil disturbance. Decision notice announces implementation of Alternative 2 of project EA.Item Open Access Willow Pine vegetation management decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2007-06-08) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision implementing Alternative 2 of the project EA, proposing to thin approximately 7154 acres to return stand conditions and fire regimes to historic levels. Includes 3211 acres of commercial harvesting, noncommercial thinning, 4551 acres of activity fuels underburning and 2519 acres of natural fuels underburning, 640 acres of grapple and hand piling, and construction of temporary roads and the use of presently closed roads.Item Open Access Willow Pine vegetation management environmental assessment(2007-06) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to thin approximately 7154 acres to return stand conditions and fire regimes to historic levels. Includes 3211 acres of commercial harvesting, noncommercial thinning, 4551 acres of activity fuels underburning and 2519 acres of natural fuels underburning, and 640 acres of grapple and hand piling, and construction of temporary roads and the use of presently closed roads.Item Open Access Willow Pine vegetation management environmental assessment (draft)(2007-03) Paulina Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to thin approximately 7154 acres to return stand conditions and fire regimes to historic levels. Includes 3211 acres of commercial harvesting, noncommercial thinning, 4551 acres of activity fuels underburning and 2519 acres of natural fuels underburning, 640 acres of grapple and hand piling, and construction of temporary roads and the use of presently closed roads.