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Item Open Access B&B Fire recovery project draft environmental impact statement(2005-03) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to harvest fire-killed and damaged trees, reduce fuels, plant trees, remove trees that are hazardous to public safety, and reduce unneeded roads. Includes salvage harvesting on 6803 acres, removal or cutting of dangerous trees along 146 miles of road, defensible space fuels treatment on 20 acres, ground-based yarding on 5847 acres, helicopter yarding on 955 acres, with 29.7 MMBF of timber harvested and 71 miles of roads decommissioned or inactivated.Item Open Access B&B Fire recovery project final environmental impact statement(2005-06-30) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to harvest fire-killed and damaged trees, reduce fuels, plant trees, remove trees that are hazardous to public safety, and reduce unneeded roads. Includes salvage harvest, fuels reduction and reforestation on approximately 6823 acres, yielding about 29.7 MMBF by both ground-based and helicopter yarding.Item Open Access B&B Fire recovery project record of decision(2005-08-02) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision implementing Alternative 2 of project FEIS, harvesting fire-killed and damaged trees, reducing fuels, planting trees, removing trees that are hazardous to public safety, and reducing unneeded roads. Includes salvage harvest, fuels reduction and reforestation on approximately 6823 acres, yielding about 29.7 MMBF with both ground-based and helicopter yarding.Item Open Access Eyerly Fire salvage project final environmental impact statement(2004-07) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to respond to the 2002 fire by salvage, fuels treatment, and reforestation. Includes salvaging the economic value of dead and dying trees and reducing fuels available to future wildland fires on approximately 4846 acres, planting conifers on upland forest lands on about 3918 acres, removing hazard trees along major roads and within Perry South and Monty campgrounds, and designating substitute areas for two old growth areas burned in the fire.Item Open Access Eyerly Fire salvage project record of decision and non-significant amendment #33(2004-08-02) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Announces implementation of Article 2 of project FEIS, responding to the 2002 fire by salvage, fuels treatment, and reforestation. Includes salvaging the economic value of dead and dying trees and reducing fuels available to future wildland fires on approximately 4846 acres, planting conifers on upland forest lands on about 3918 acres, removing hazard trees along major roads and within Perry South and Monty campgrounds, and designating substitute areas for two old growth areas burned in the fire, which requires a substitution amendment.Item Open Access McCache vegetation management project decision notice, Forest Plan amendment, and finding of no significant impact(2001-10-18) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Announces implementation of Alternative 4 of the project EA with minor modifications, using a combination of vegetation and fuel management on approximately 5000 acres (about one-third of the project area). Includes harvesting of 29 million board feet, restoring aspen in about 81 acres of riparian reserves, and closing 27.5 miles of road.Item Open Access Metolius Basin forest management project draft environmental impact statement(2002-12) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to implement fuel reduction and forest health management activities on 12,648 acres to reduce risk of wildfire, insects and disease; protect the safety of people, property, and tribal and natural resources; restore late-successional (old-growth) forests; and protect and restore watershed conditions. Includes thinning, underburning, restoring meadows and aspen stands, managing dwarf mistletoe, removing hazard trees, ground-based logging on 7332 acres, machine piling on 2078 acres, and inactivation or decommissioning of approximately 50 miles of roads.Item Open Access Metolius Basin forest management project final environmental impact statement and record of decision(2003-07) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)FEIS proposes to implement fuel reductions and forest health management activities on 12, 648 acres to reduce risk of wildfire, insects, and disease; protect the safety of people, property, and tribal and natural resources; restore late-successional (old-growth) forests; and protect and restore watershed conditions. Includes thinning, underburning, restoring meadows and aspen stands, managing dwarf mistletoe, removing hazard trees, ground-based logging on 7332 acres, machine piling on 2078 acres, and inactivation or decommissioning of approximately 50 miles of roads.Item Open Access Sisters area fuels reduction (SAFR) project environmental assessment(2007-08) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health on approximately 17,573 total acres. Includes thinning from below, ladder fuels reduction, application of prescribed fire, mastication, and mechanized piling and slash pile burning.