Bend - Fort Rock Ranger District

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Meissner Sno-Park and Nordic trails decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2008-04-11) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement a modified Alternative 3 of the project EA, including providing 120 additional spaces in the parking lot, constructing a shelter of up to 1370 square feet, providing a 1 acre staging area, constructing 7.8 miles of new trail, adding .4 miles of ungroomed trail, expanding the grooming area, constructing an additional toilet, and installing an information kiosk in the parking area.
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Meissner Sno-Park and Nordic trails environmental assessment
(2008-04) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to develop and improve facilities for Nordic skiers. Includes providing 9.7 miles of new trails, removing vegetation along the sides of existing roads and trails, expanding the grooming area, providing a terrain park, constructing a warming shelter with changing rooms and a small kitchen, enlarging the parking area, providing another toilet, constructing a staging area, constructing a signboard with maps and information, and replacing the dirt floor of the pole barn with a concrete floor.
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Ryan Ranch Meadow/Aspen/Willow enhancement project final decision memo
(2008-03-25) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to improve habitat conditions on approximately 95 acres of existing upland meadow, aspen and willow habitats in the Ryan Ranch Meadow area west of the Deschutes River by broadcast burning approximately 80 acres of upland meadow and by cutting encroaching lodgepole pine conifers 10 inches (dbh) and smaller on about 10 acres of existing willow habitat and five acres of existing aspen stand. Also includes enhancing the growth and survival of aspen by cutting all lodgepole pine 10 inches (dbh) and smaller, and lopping and scattering the slash.
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Gull Point boat ramps improvement project decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2008-02-28) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to authorize implementation of Alternative 2 of project EA, bettering recreational infrastructure, public safety and satisfaction by improving the boat ramps at Gull Point and North Wickiup. Includes replacing existing ramp to provide safe boat launching facilities for boaters during a wide range of reservoir elevations and putting boarding floats on the new ramp at Gull Point, and providing additional parking for ramps and replacing them with those designed to provide safe boat launching facilities during a wide range of reservoir elevations at North Wickiup.
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Myst fuel hazard reduction project signed revised decision memo
(2008-02-05) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to reduce fire hazard vegetation conditions within the wildland urban interface on approximately 763 acres of forested lands near private lands in the areas adjacent to the Spring, Fall, and Deschutes Rivers. Includes treating surface, ladder, and canopy fuels by commercial and non-commercial harvest of trees up to 21 inches (dbh), hand and grapple piling of slash, burning or utilization of slash piles, mechanical mowing of shrubs and small trees, and underburning.
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Sunriver HFRA decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2008-01-22) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of project EA, reducing hazardous fuels in the wildland-urban interface adjacent to Sunriver to reduce wildland fire risk to communities and forest values and to provide obvious, safe access and evacuation routes. Includes thinning, prescribed burning or mowing of approximately 1673 acres to reduce fire risk, and five miles of roadside thinning, mowing and underburning on about 16.1 miles of undesignated evacuation routes, which would be closed to public use and decommissioned.
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Fry thinning project decision memo
(2008-01-22) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to proceed with project thinning and using prescribed fire to reduce crown fire susceptibility and fire behavior, improve public safety and facilities protection, help restore a dry mixed conifer forest dominated by ponderosa pine, and be economically efficient by providing some commercial forest product revenue to offset the costs associated with vegetation management. Includes thinning from below while retaining 50-70 square feet of pine basal area, followed by mowing of the shrub layer and underburning.
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Environmental assessment for the collocation of the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District office, forest headquarters office, and work center construction and reorganization decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2008-01-17) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of project EA, constructing a new office and associated structures and infrastructure at the Bend Pine Work Center (BPWC), thus locating all Forest Service administrative functions near the city of Bend at one site. Administrative costs and commuting time would be saved by constructing a new office, work center, and crew quarters at one site, and upgrading Deschutes Market Road.
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Meissner Sno-Park and Nordic trails draft environmental assessment
(2008-01) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to develop and improve facilities for Nordic skiers. Includes providing 9.7 miles of new trails, removing vegetation along the sides of existing roads and trails, expanding the grooming area, building a terrain park, constructing a warming shelter with changing rooms and a small kitchen, enlarging the parking area, providing another toilet, making a staging area, constructing a signboard with maps and information, and replacing the dirt floor of the pole barn with a concrete floor.
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Oz research project preliminary decision memo
(2007-12) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to implement a study conducted by Oregon State University that will test stand differences in structural development over time using four silvicultural treatments in second-growth, even-aged ponderosa pine. Treatments include no treatment, uneven-age group selection, wide thinning, and uneven-age single tree selection.
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Sunriver HFRA environmental assessment
(2007-12) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to reduce hazardous fuels in the wildland-urban interface adjacent to Sunriver to reduce wildland fire risk to communities and forest values, and to provide obvious, safe access and evacuation routes. Includes thinning, prescribed burning, or mowing of approximately 1673 acres to reduce fire risk, and five miles of roadside thinning, mowing, and underburning on about 16.1 miles of undesignated evacuation routes, which would be closed to public use and decommissioned.
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Gull Point boat ramps improvement project environmental assessment
(2007-11) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to better recreation infrastructure, public safety and satisfaction by improving the boat ramps at Gull Point and North Wickiup. Includes replacing existing ramp to provide safe boat launching facilities for boaters during a wide range of reservoir elevations and putting boarding floats on the new ramp at Gull Point, and providing additional parking and replacing existing ramps with one designed to provide safe boat launching facilities during a wide range of reservoir elevations at North Wickiup.
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Ryan Ranch Meadow/Aspen/Willow enhancement project preliminary decision memo
(2007-10-25) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to improve habitat conditions on approximately 95 acres of existing upland meadow, aspen and willow habitats in the Ryan Ranch meadow area west of the Deschutes River by broadcast burning approximately 80 acres of upland meadow and by cutting encroaching lodgepole pine conifers 10 inches (dbh) and smaller on about 10 acres of existing willow habitat and five acres of existing aspen stands. Also includes enhancing the growth and survival of aspen by cutting all lodgepole pine 10 inches (dbh) and smaller, and lopping and scattering the slash.
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Deschutes County Road Department sand shed project decision memo
(2007-08-29) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to issue a special use permit to allow the Deschutes County Road Department to construct, operate and maintain a road sanding material storage site on National Forest System lands. After the completion of Road 45, the county will construct a site where traction cinders and equipment can be stored for maintenance and snow plowing purposes.
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Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) LaPine Substation communication tower decision memo
(2007-06-25) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to issue a special use permit to BPA to construct a 140-foot communications tower within the existing BPA LaPine Substation. BPA will construct the tower and mount two microwave antennae onto the tower within the existing substation yard, operate and maintain it.
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Deschutes County Road Department sand shed project draft decision memo
(2007-05) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to issue a special use permit to allow the Deschutes County Road Department to construct, operate and maintain a road sanding material storage site on National Forest System lands. After the completion of Road 45, the county will construct a site where traction cinders and equipment can be stored for maintenance and snow plowing purposes.
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Oz research project decision memo
(2007-02-27) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to proceed with a study conducted by Oregon State University that will test stand differences in structural development over time using four silvicultural treatments in second-growth, even-aged ponderosa pine. Treatments include no treatment, uneven-age group selection, wide thinning, and uneven-age single tree selection.
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Sunriver Vector control project decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2007-02-07) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of project EA, continuing a special use permit issued to Four Rivers Vector Control District for treatment of mosquitoes with the bacterial insecticide Bti on federally-owned land near Sunriver, modified to expand the treatment area to Benham Falls Day Use Area.
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Opine vegetation management decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2007-02-02) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 with modifications from the 30-day comment period to effect reductions in natural fuels, including reductions in shrub and forest stand densities as well as for providing commercially viable wood fiber to support local mills and the local economy. A variety of vegetation (commercial and non-commercial thinning) and fuels reduction treatments on 26,638 acres are proposed, including approximately 6468 acres of thinning and regeneration harvest treatments in ponderosa and lodgepole pine stands. Within the stands will be 5312 acres of fuel reduction treatments, and an additional 20,170 acres of treatments in xeric shrublands and forest stands are proposed outside of the commercial and non-commercial treatments.
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State correction crew camp relocation project environmental assessment
(2007-02-02) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to relocate the existing state inmate crew camp at Deschutes Bridge gravel pit to Ogden Group Camp. Includes supplying improved electricity to the camp where none currently exists and new water lines to meet staff and camp needs.