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Item Open Access Black Rock salvage/restoration categorical exclusion review(2006-09-25) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision to implement project without further environmental analysis, removing 147 MBF of fire-killed trees and planting 20,000 ponderosa seedlings. Includes reducing fuel loading, salvaging merchantable timber, and providing for snags and down wood debris.Item Open Access Finding of no significant impact for Slickear/Claw Creek forest restoration environmental assessment(2008-07) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to reduce hazardous fuels, restore plant communities, and improve wildlife habitat diversity by utilizing various methods of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. Includes closing or moving a .75 mile stretch of road, and treatment for four dominant vegetative communities: forest areas (ponderosa pine stands), low/stiff sagebrush flats, mountain big sagebrush-bunchgrasses communities, and aspen stands.Item Open Access Five Creeks Rangeland restoration project environmental assessment(2006-10-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to implement an ecological restoration project to manage encroaching juniper on both public and private lands by utilizing prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. Includes reintroducing fire to restore and/or maintain natural fire regimes; reducing hazardous fuels, especially within previously treated juniper cuts; moving the species composition and structure of big sagebrush-bunchgrass, low sagebrush-bunchgrass, aspen and riparian communities toward pre-European immigration conditions; improving big game, sage-grouse, and other locally important species habitat; increasing wild horse and livestock forage, and improving watershed health.Item Open Access Five Creeks Rangeland restoration project final decision record(2006-10-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision to implement ecological restoration project to manage encroaching juniper on both public and private lands by utilizing prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. Includes reintroducing fire to restore and/or maintain natural fire regimes; reducing hazardous fuels, especially within previously treated juniper cuts; moving the species composition and structure of big sagebrush-bunchgrass, low sagebrush-bunchgrass, aspen and riparian communities toward pre-European immigration conditions; improving big game, sage-grouse, and other locally important species habitat; increasing wild horse and livestock forage; and improving watershed health.Item Open Access Five Creeks Rangeland restoration project finding of no significant impact(2006-10-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Three Rivers Resource Area; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision to exclude EIS from project implementing an ecological restoration project to manage encroaching juniper on both public and private lands by utilizing prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. Includes reintroducing fire to restore and/or maintain natural fire regimes; reducing hazardous fuels, especially within previously treated juniper cuts; moving the species composition and structure of big sagebrush-bunchgrass, low sagebrush-bunchgrass, aspen and riparian communities toward pre-European immigration conditions; improving big game, sage-grouse, and other locally important species habitat; increasing wild horse and livestock forage; and improving watershed health.Item Open Access North Steens ecosystem restoration project draft environmental impact statement(2005-12) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to utilize a combination of prescribed burning and wildfire, western juniper treatments, fencing, seeding, planting, and other methods to reduce juniper-related fuel loading and restore a healthy and natural ecosystem on Steens Mountain.Item Open Access North Steens ecosystem restoration project final environmental impact statement(2007-07) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to utilize a combination of prescribed burning and wildfire, western juniper treatments, fencing, seeding, planting, and other methods to reduce juniper-related fuel loading and restore a healthy and natural ecosystem on Steens Mountain.Item Open Access North Steens ecosystem restoration project record of decision(2007-09) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision implementing the preferred alternative of project FEIS, utilizing a combination of prescribed burning and wildfire, western juniper treatments, fencing, seeding, planting, and other methods to reduce juniper-related fuel loading and restore a healthy and natural ecosystem on Steens Mountain.Item Open Access Otis Mountain/Moffet Table fuels management project decision record(2007-09-25) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision to implement a portion of the proposed action. Includes all of the rangeland burning and silvicultural thinning outside of the Rudy treatment area in the northeastern corner of the project area. A portion of the silvicultural thinning treatments will be accomplished under stewardship contracting authority.Item Open Access Otis Mountain/Moffet Table fuels management project environmental assessment(2007-06) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to utilize a combination of prescribed burning and silvicultural thinning to reduce fuels and restore fire adapted ecosystems on 5000 acres of ponderosa pine dominated forests and woodlands, and 26,500 acres of sagebrush-steppe. Treatments include hazardous fuels reduction, noncommercial thinning, commercial thinning, pile burning, underburning, broadcast burning, jackpot burning, juniper cutting, and conifer cutting.Item Open Access Pinecraft hazardous fuels reduction project environmental assessment(2007-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictProposes to utilize a combination of prescribed burning and silvicultural methods to reduce the chance of sustained crown fire on 1200 acres of ponderosa pine dominated forest within the Craft Point and Pine Creek area.Item Open Access Pinecraft hazardous fuels reduction project finding of no significant impact and decision record(2007-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision to exclude EIS from project utilizing a combination of prescribed burning and silvicultural methods to reduce the chance of sustained crown fire on 1200 acres of ponderosa pine dominated forest within the Craft Point and Pine Creek area.Item Open Access Slickear/Claw Creek Forest restoration decision record(2008-10-25) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns DistrictAnnounces decision approving project utilizing various methods of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments to reduce hazardous fuels, restore plant communities, and improve wildlife habitat diversity. The emphasis on treatments in forested areas would be to reduce densities of small diameter trees and duff and litter accumulations. The emphasis in shrublands, woodlands, and riparian areas would be to move conditions toward historic species composition and structure while reducing fuels in the vicinity of the towns of Burns, Hines, and Riley, as well as numerous ranches, homes, and dwellings.