Crescent Ranger District

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2006 small tree thinning decision memo
(2006-01-11) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project thinning small trees on approximately 151 acres in 7 units to relieve overcrowding. Includes thinning 15-20 year-old trees not larger than 7 inches in diameter by hand chain or brush saws, leaving spaces between 18-20 feet, and hand piling slash that will be chipped, utilized in another way, or burned.
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2007 Big Marsh meadow rehabilitation project preliminary decision memo
(2007) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project to enhance the meadow through cutting and girdling encroaching lodgepole pine into the meadow, and prescribed burning. Includes cutting trees 15-25 years-old on about 100 acres and not larger than 6 inches (dbh), loosely piling the felled trees, and burning on approximately 900 acres.
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2007 Spruce Creek riparian rehabilitation decision memo
(2007-12-13) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project implementing a riparian meadow/hydrologic function restoration project on 100 acres of Spruce Creek and an adjacent stringer meadow. Includes thinning select lodgepole pine 3 inches or less in diameter, spot burning willow clumps, planting riparian-dependent vegetation, and putting in fence willow/plantings to protect from browse.
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2007 Spruce Creek riparian rehabilitation preliminary decision memo
(2007-09-12) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project implementing a riparian meadow/hydrologic function restoration project in Spruce Creek and an adjoining stringer meadow. Includes thinning select lodgepole pine 3 inches or less in diameter, spot burning willow clumps, planting riparian-dependent vegetation, and putting in fence willow/plantings to protect from browse.
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2008 small tree thinning preliminary decision memo
(2008-04-28) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project thinning small trees on approximately 2590 acres in 89 units to increase the growth and health of overcrowded stands not likely of commercial value. Includes thinning by hand with chain or brush saws of trees generally 15-25 years old and not larger than 6 inches in diameter leaving space of 18-20 feet, hand piling or removing with machines the resultant slash, and burning whatever cannot be chopped or utilized.
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Baja 58 project (fiscal year 2000 portion) decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2000-02-28) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to include further vegetation management activities with those of Alternative 3 of September 1998. Includes understory thinning of 2762 acres, prescribe burning of 904 acres of fire-tolerant stands to reduce density, and harvesting total green volume of approximately 5.4 MMBF and .3 MMBF of salvage.
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Baja 58 project (fiscal year 1998 portion) decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(1998-09-30) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement modified version of Alternative 3 of project EA, understory thinning 5570 acres, harvesting 2.1 MMBF of salvage and 12.4 MMBF, and construction/reconstruction of 10.2 miles of road.
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Baja 58 project (fiscal year 2001 portion) decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2001-02-23) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement remaining portions of Alternate 3 of September 1998, including understory thinning, prescribed burning of fire-tolerant stands to relieve density, and harvesting of timber and salvage.
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Baja 58 project (fiscal year 2002 portion in northern spotted owl range) decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2001-11-01) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces, based on the original EA, a plant survey result, and an amended biological assessment, implementation of the remaining portion of the modified Alternative 3 within the range of the northern spotted owl. Includes understory thinning of 810 acres, creating early seral lodgepole stands using either commercial harvest or prescribed fire, and harvesting a total value of 2.5 million board feet.
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Crescent Lake wildland-urban interface fuels reduction project decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2004-07-14) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 modified of project EA, reducing fuels by treating approximately 3900 acres to achieve sustainable vegetative conditions and lower the risk of stand replacement wildfire. Includes tree and small tree thinning, hand and machine piling and burning or utilizing piles, mechanized brush treatment, pruning of limbs, prescribed underburning, meadow edge treatments, and road relocation, decommissioning, and re-opening.
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Crescent Lake wildland-urban interface fuels reduction project environmental assessment
(2004-04) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to reduce fuels by treating approximately 3900 acres to achieve sustainable vegetative conditions and lower the risk of stand replacement wildfire. Includes tree and small tree thinning, hand and machine piling and burning or utilizing piles, mechanized brush treatment, pruning of limbs, prescribed underburning, meadow edge treatments, and road relocation, decommissioning, and re-opening.
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Five Buttes project draft environmental impact statement
(2007-01) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes vegetation management on 5522 acres involving commercial and small tree thinning of forested stands, harvesting 18.9 million board feet of timber. Includes salvage of dead lodgepole pine, prescribed burning, piling and disposal of activity-generated slash, and construction of 6.4 miles of temporary roads.
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Five Buttes project environmental impact statement
(2007-06) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes vegetation management on 5522 acres involving commercial and small tree thinning of forested stands, harvesting 18.9 million board feet of timber. Includes salvage of dead lodgepole pine, prescribed burning, piling and disposal of activity-generated slash, and construction of 6.4 miles of temporary roads.
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Five Buttes project record of decision
(2007-06) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative C modified from project EIS, initiating vegetation management on 5522 acres involving commercial and small tree thinning of forested stands, harvesting 18.9 million board feet of timber. Includes salvage of dead lodgepole pine, prescribed burning, piling and dispersal of activity-generated slash, and construction of 6.4 miles of temporary roads.
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Icy/Toast decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(1998-07-06) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces the decision to implement the proposed action, with a modification to add 6 acres of aspen enhancement. Includes prescribed underburning of 533 acres, salvaging of 407 acres of dead and down lodgepole pine, commercial thinning of 41 acres of ponderosa and lodgepole pine, precommercial thinning of 308 acres, tractor mowing of 36 acres, closing 11 miles of roads, and seed tree cutting/enhancing of about 10 acres of aspen. Also includes the development of a long term monitoring plan for prescribed underburning and tractor mowing treatments within pumice grape fern (Botrychium pumicola) study plots, and monitoring of aspen rejuvenation projects.
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Lakeside hazardous fuels reduction project preliminary decision memo
(2007) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project reducing hazardous fuel loadings and ladder fuels in the Crescent and Upper Deschutes Watershed. Includes small diameter thinning (3 inches or less), pile burning or utilization, and training of lower limbs on trees on approximately 640 acres.
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Seven Buttes return vegetation management project environmental assessment
(2001-07) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to address opportunities for restoring ecosystems identified during the Odell Watershed Analysis (1999), Big Marsh Watershed Analysis (1997), and to implement the management strategy defined for the Davis Late Successional Reserve (1995), by reducing stand density to a level that substantially changes the risk of mortality caused by overcrowding and competition for resources. Includes thinning of smaller species to promote large pine and Douglas-fir habitats for bald eagles and northern spotted owls, culturing of large trees, prescribed fire and/or mowing, salvaging excess dead and dying trees, and thinning of understory to favor overstory replacement trees.
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Seven Buttes return vegetation managment project part A decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2001-07-23) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to restore ecosystems identified during the Odell Watershed Analysis (1999), Big Marsh Watershed Analysis (1997), and to implement the management strategy defined for the Davis Late Successional Reserve (1995), by reducing stand density to a level that substantially changes the risk of mortality caused by overcrowding and competition for resources. Includes thinning of smaller species to promote large pine and Douglas-fir habitats for bald eagles and northern spotted owls, culturing of large trees, prescribed fire and/or mowing, salvaging excess dead and dying trees, and thinning of understory to favor overstory replacement trees. Some treatment units will be included in a separate decision.
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Thaw (Long Prairie) wildland-urban interface project categorical exclusion review and approval
(2003-08) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces categorical exclusion of project implementing hazardous fuel treatments on 825 acres of BLM-managed lands and 38 acres of Forest Service lands. Includes actions against shrub and lodgepole pine seedlings overgrowth, as well as small tree thinning.
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Wickiup Acres hazardous fuels reduction decision memo
(2008) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project reducing fuels on approximately 503 acres southwest of La Pine within the wildland urban interface. Includes thinning trees up to 8 inches in diameter (dbh), pruning limbs on larger trees, hand piling thinned material and activity-generated slash, utilization of thinned material where possible, hand pile burning when necessary, mowing, prescribed underburning, and enhancement or restoration of meadows.