Coos Bay District

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Camas Powerline CT timber sale decision documentation
(2007-07-13) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces implementation of project commercially thinning 219 acres and density management thinning on 77 acres, on trees less than 80 years. Also includes construction of one mile of new road, renovation of 9.9 miles of existing road, and decommissioning of 2.3 miles of road.
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Coos Bay 2009 and 2010 sample tree falling categorical exclusion documentation
(2008-11-03) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
The Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to fall, buck and scale sample trees ("sample tree felling") during the 2009 and 2010 calendar year to ensure the accuracy of timber cruises for future forest management actions. Trees would be felled only in areas that have been planned, marked, and cruised for timber harvest. Felled trees would be a subset of the trees designated for removal in the timber harvest area. The proposed action would be implemented on the above listed timber sale projects on the Coos Bay District as a precursor to timber sale contract preparation.
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Coos Bay FY 2009 fire line construction categorical exclusion review
(2008-10-11) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Categorically excludes fire line construction project in support of slash disposal operations. The topography and terrain often dictate where the location for fire lines is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner locate fire lines on neighboring BLM lands. Fire lines would be strategically located on both BLM and privately owned lands thus maximizing prescribed fire managers opportunities to safely contain and control the prescribed burn. Proper location of fire lines will reduce the chances of an escaped fire and thereby help to reduce potential impacts to watershed resources in the general area of the burn operations. Seasonal restrictions may be required to minimize impacts to T&E species, as outlined in the current Biological Opinion. Fire lines would be cleared of vegetation to a width of eight (8) feet. Within the fire line the fire trail would be cleared to mineral soil to a width of three (3) feet. Water bars would be constructed across all fire trails following the slope guidelines below. Water bars would consist of a six inch deep trench oriented at a 30- to 45-degree angle with respect to the fire line. Water bars would extend approximately six inches beyond the width of the fire trail.
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Coos Bay FY 2009 removal of roadway salvage and hazard trees categorical exclusion review
(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Categorically excludes project of single salvage sales less than 50 mbf in compliance with Coos Bay Instruction Memorandum OR120-2007-03. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy.
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Coos Bay FY 2009 road maintenance categorical exclusion review
(2008-10-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces decision that no further analysis is required on project for annual, seasonal, monthly, weekly, and daily maintenance of nearly 2000 miles of BLM maintained logging roads. These roads are maintained by BLM maintenance crews and private contractors in conformance with the Western Oregon Transportation Plan. Routine maintenance activities and emergency repairs are needed to keep the road system functional and drainage systems operational.
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Coos Bay FY 2009 sale of special forest products categorical exclusion review
(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces no further analysis is required on project. Under the Special Forest Products Program, contracts, including permits and tags, would be offered and administered for harvesting a variety of special forest products. Contracts may include Form 5450-5 for the sale of vegetative material up to a value of $2499.00 and Form 5450-1 for the sale of vegetative material over $2500.00, Christmas tree tags, and free use permits. Products to be harvested include, but are not limited to; firewood, posts and poles, chips, cedar wood products, transplant stock (tree seedlings, shrubs, and herbaceous plants), cut sticks, moss, beargrass, boughs and Christmas trees, other floral greenery, cones, burls, bark, roots, pitch, and fungi. Except for wood products, the items listed in this Categorical Exclusion review will be harvested manually. Wood products will involve the use of mechanical equipment such as chainsaws, tracked log skidder, cable yarding equipment, helicopter, loader and log trucks. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy. All Research Natural Areas, developed recreation sites, and special status fauna and flora sites will be excluded from harvest.
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Coos Bay FY 2009 tailhold and guyline requests categorical exclusion review
(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces no further analysis is required on project. Use of tailhold and guyline trees to facilitate logging operations is a common occurrence throughout this region. The topography and terrain dictate the location where the use of these trees is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner must utilize trees on neighboring BLM lands. Use of tailholds on BLM will allow the operator to achieve better log suspension thereby reducing impacts to soil and watershed resources in the harvest area. Guyline trees are required for the safe operation of the yarding equipment. This CX pertains to requests from adjacent landowners that are not currently authorized through Reciprocal Right-of-Way Agreements.
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Edson thin environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-04-04) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
EA proposes to manage tree densities on about 490 acres and construct 3.3 miles of new road, renovate or improve 22 miles of road, decommission 10.6 miles of road, and create snags and downed. FONSI approves project for proposed commercial thinning, density management, and red alder conversion harvest projects.
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King Myrtle environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-11-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
The proposed action is to implement silvicultural treatments on approximately 700 acres of BLM administered lands. This action would include thinning of conifer stands in the GFMA, Late-successional Reserves (LSR), and Riparian Reserve (RR) land-use allocations. All of the thinning treatments in this action would yield commercial wood products; however, thinning in the GFMA is termed commercial thinning (CT) while thinning in the LSR and RR is termed density management thinning (DMT) because of differing management objectives.
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Luts Hedden CT timber sale decision documentation
(2008-12-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
The Proposed Action Alternative proposes to thin approximately 8,796 acres of conifer and to convert approximately 167 acres of red alder to conifer in 31-80 year old stands within the Umpqua River-Sawyer Rapids Fifth Field Watershed. The edges of the project area overlap into Vincent Creek, Big Creek-Lower Umpqua, Lower Elk Creek, and Lower Camp Creek subwatersheds all within Douglas County.
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Mister Slate CT timber sale decision documentation
(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces decision approving project, implementing commercial thinning totaling 131 acres and density management thinning totaling 55 acres in dense conifer stands. The Mister Slate CT Timber Sale will require construction of 0.21 miles of new roads, and renovation of 0.87 miles of existing roads. The 0.21 miles of newly constructed roads will be decommissioned with this timber sale.
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New River foredune management environmental assessment
(2008-12-15) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Proposes to modify past plover habitat restoration techniques and re-establish dune heights to mitigate blowing sand and ocean overwash into the New River system. To maintain past acreage available for plover habitat restoration activities, the current Habitat Restoration Area (HRA) boundary would be moved south and incorporate the previously designated "potential" HRA acres. Includes the FINAL review and write-up of the geology/geomorphology for the Western Snowy Plover Habitat Restoration Area Environmental Assessment for New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, EA OR128-06-01. This document incorporates the New River Health EA OR128-03-11 Geological/Geomorphologic Review, completed July 31, 2003. This document provides the background and basis for reviews, research and interpretation of work done on this present EA.
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New River foredune management environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-12-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Proposes to modify past plover habitat restoration techniques and re-establish dune heights to mitigate blowing sand and ocean overwash into the New River system. To maintain past acreage available for plover habitat restoration activities, the current Habitat Restoration Area (HRA) boundary would be moved south and incorporate the previously designated "potential" HRA acres.
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Paradise Creek snag project decision record
(2007-04-24) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces decision implementing project creating down wood by falling trees and snags by topping trees with chainsaws on the Paradise Creek drainage in the Middle Umpqua Watershed. Treated trees will be grouped to create small openings around a dominant "select" tree to release the tree from competition.
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Remote Control timber sale decision record and finding of no significant impact
(2008-12-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces implementation of project EA, providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume.
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Remote Control timber sale environmental assessment
(2008-11-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Adopting the proposed action would contribute to fulfilling the need for forest products by providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume. Also includes fuel treatments and road activities.
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Remote Control timber sale finding of no significant impact
(2008-11-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Finds no environmental impact statement is needed for project. Adopting the proposed action would contribute to fulfilling the need for forest products by providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume.
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Rock Bottom CT timber sale decision documentation
(2008-12-30) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
The EA's Proposed Action includes thinning approximately 1,400 acres of young conifer stands in the Matrix and Riparian Reserve land use allocations, construction of approximately 4.1 miles of new road, renovation/improvement of approximately 14.8 miles of existing roads, and decommissioning a total of 10.7 miles of new and existing roads.
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Scattered Skeeter DMT timber sale decision documentation
(2007-03-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
Announces decision implementing harvest treatments on 568 acres of conifer stands and 52 acres of hardwood stands, as well as constructing 1.1 miles of new road, renovating 24.4 miles of existing roads, improving .2 miles of existing road, and decommissioning 11.3 miles of roads.
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Slater Rocks Environmental Assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-05-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay District
EA proposes to thin 1400 acres of 30-70 year old forest stands consisting primarily of conifer plantations within the Matrix and Riparian Reserves land-use allocations in the Fifth Field Watershed of the Middle Fork of the Coquille River. Includes new road construction, road renovation, improvement and maintenance, and road decommissioning. FONSI eliminates need for an EIS.