Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests

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Big Table and Lytle Creek cattle allotment decision memo
(2008-09-30) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to authorize continued livestock grazing use within the Big Table and Lytle Creek Cattle Allotments consistent with existing management to continue to meet or move resources toward desired conditions.
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Flymon II stewardship project final decison memo
(2008-09-24) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to authorize project improving mule deer winter range and promote the growth of large diameter ponderosa pine. This will be accomplished on up to 300 acres by thinning conifer stands from below, mowing brush, and reintroducing prescribed fire. About 420,000 board feet (MBF) of timber will be removed through stand density reduction to promote the development of Late Old Structure (LOS) ponderosa pine forest. In addition, about 3 miles of road will be closed to restore hydrologic function to lower Fly Creek and about 10 acres of spotted knapweed, an invasive plant, will be hand pulled to reduce the risk of spread.
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Trout Creek fish habitat restoration project decision memo
(2008-09-24) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to implement the following activities to improve stream channel complexity and function, improve riparian habitat adjacent to the stream and to provide fish passage at culvert barriers: stream structures will be installed to increase the number of pools per mile on 1.1 miles of Trout Creek, 1.7 miles of Dick Creek, and 1.5 miles of Auger Creek; stream banks will be sloped back and reshaped to increase floodplain access in areas where channel incision has occurred; four undersized culverts will be replaced in the project area; access to user created vehicle fords on Auger and Dick creeks will be blocked with partially buried boulders, large wood or stream structures.
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Walker Mountain communication site and forest plan amendment environmental assessment
(2009-02) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Walker Mountain is a designated electronic site located on the Crescent Ranger District on the Deschutes National Forest. The Deschutes National Forest proposes to issue a special use permit to Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) authorizing the construction of a co-locatable communications tower and building to be located on the Walker Mountain Communication Site. In addition, BPA will remove two aged Forest Service towers and one building on the south end of the electronic site where historically significant buildings are located. Midstate Electric would remove the associated overhead powerline to those structures. All areas where removal takes place would be rehabilitated to a condition as close to the surrounding character of the site, as reasonable. The proposed action would require an amendment to the Deschutes National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan and the Walker Mountain Communications Site 1995 Revised Management and Development Plan.
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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.
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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.
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Crooked River Ranch fuels project decision memo
(2006) Crooked River National Grassland (Or.)
Announces implementation of project to reduce fuels and resultant wildfire risk on 200 acres adjacent to the ranch. Designated a wildlife-urban area, the project includes cutting juniper trees less than 12" (dbh) with chainsaws, scattering and burning junipers in light areas, hauling off and selling juniper trees in denser areas, and mowing brush to a depth of a foot or less within 100 feet of the property line.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.