Sisters Ranger District

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Black Crater Fire roadside danger tree removal final decision memo
(2006-12-08) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision after review of project EA and public comments on the Preliminary Decision Memo, to implement proposed action felling fire-killed danger trees adjacent to Forest roads. Includes ground-based logging of about 8 acres and 150 thousand feet of killed ponderosa pine and white fir, and hand piling and/or lopping, scattering or burning activity fuels where concentrated.
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Black Crater Fire roadside danger tree removal preliminary decision memo
(2006-10-26) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement proposed action felling fire-killed danger trees adjacent to Forest roads. Includes ground-based logging of about 8 acres and 150 thousand board feet of killed ponderosa pine and white fir, and hand piling and/or lopping, scattering or burning activity fuels where concentrated.
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Black Crater Fire timber salvage project preliminary decision memo
(2006-12-12) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to harvest about 2.25 million board feet of fire-killed timber from 201 acres from a fire of July 24, 2006. Dead trees of all species and heavily scorched white fir and lodgepole pine that have a low likelihood of survival in areas of stand replacement fire severity will be harvested. Includes harvesting timber with economic value, reforesting desired tree species, and removing danger trees along commercial haul routes.
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Bugs thinning project decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2001-10-01) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of the project EA, responding to the high mortality caused by the spruce budworm by thinning some 170,000 board feet of green trees on approximately 630 acres of forest stands where removal of dead trees was previously approved under the Santiam Late Successional Reserve Restoration EA (1998). Includes mostly ground-based thinning and salvage, with open areas replanted as needed to ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and western larch to establish long lived, fire-resistant species.
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City of Sisters Townsite Act conveyance environmental assessment
(1999-07-26) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative C of the project EA, immediately approving 160 of the 240 acres of National Forest lands for conveyance to the City of Sisters under the authority of the 1958 National Forest Townsite Act for a sewage and wastewater facility system. Conveyance would be limited to that essential to community needs and would contain provisions consistent with protection of adjacent National Forest. Facilities would include sewer treatment ponds, infrastructure, an effluent distribution area, roads, a buffer for residential properties and a buffer to protect forest lands.
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City of Sisters Townsite Act conveyance environmental assessment
(1999-05) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to sell 240 acres of National Forest lands under the authority of the 1958 National Forest Townsite Act to the city for a sewage and wastewater facility system. Conveyance would be limited to that essential to community needs and would contain provisions consistent with protection of adjacent National Forest. Facilities would include sewer treatment ponds, infrastructure, an effluent distribution area, roads, a buffer for residential properties and a buffer to protect forest lands.
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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.
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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.
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Flymon II stewardship project final decison memo
(2008-09-24) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to authorize project improving mule deer winter range and promote the growth of large diameter ponderosa pine. This will be accomplished on up to 300 acres by thinning conifer stands from below, mowing brush, and reintroducing prescribed fire. About 420,000 board feet (MBF) of timber will be removed through stand density reduction to promote the development of Late Old Structure (LOS) ponderosa pine forest. In addition, about 3 miles of road will be closed to restore hydrologic function to lower Fly Creek and about 10 acres of spotted knapweed, an invasive plant, will be hand pulled to reduce the risk of spread.
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Glaze Forest restoration project decision notice and response to public comments
(2008-03) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 modified of project EA, restoring old-growth and second growth forests and Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas in Glaze Forest with ecologically-driven tree thinning, shrub mowing and prescribed fire on approximately 1200 acres. Includes thinning of second-growth and in old-growth ponderosa pine stands, thinning in aspen stands, hand thinning small encroaching conifers within about 236 acres of meadow, thinning and reducing fuels on approximately 551 acres of riparian habitat areas, and reintroducing fire as needed.
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Glaze Forest restoration project environmental assessment
(2008-03) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to restore old-growth and second growth forests and Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas in Glaze Forest with ecologically-driven tree thinning, shrub mowing and prescribed fire on approximately 1200 acres. Includes thinning of second-growth and in old-growth ponderosa pine stands, thinning in aspen stands, hand thinning small encroaching conifers within about 236 acres of meadow, thinning and reducing fuels on about 551 acres of riparian habitat areas, and reintroducing fire as needed.
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GW fire timber salvage project final decision memo
(2008-06-27) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision after the Need for Action, the Purpose of the Project, the interdisciplinary team analysis, and the public comment to salvage log some 2.86 million board feet on 218 acres of fire-killed timber, including white fir, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir. Includes ground-based logging, use of temporary roads, reforesting of desired tree species, and removing danger trees along commercial haul routes.
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GW fire timber salvage project preliminary decision memo
(2008-04-15) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement the proposed action, to salvage log about 218 acres of fire killed timber, including white fir, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir. Includes ground-based logging, use of temporary roads, reforesting of desired tree species, and removing danger trees along commercial haul routes.
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Heritage forest demonstration environmental assessment
(2001-06) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Friends of the Metolius proposed that the Forest Service analyze and implement this collaborative project as a demonstration of forest management methods, with the interest of educating the public about the need for, and outcomes of similar proposed management throughout ponderosa pine and mixed conifer habitat in the Metolius Basin. Includes establishing 8 small plots from 5 to 11 acres in which different types of vegetation management "treatment" would occur, including small and large tree removal, prescribed burning or mowing, all with the object of moving the forest stands toward sustainable old-growth conditions.
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Lundgren land exchange environmental assessment
(2002-04-03) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to exchange the Lake Creek property, privately held by Metolius, LLC, for the Forest Service-owned Cliff and School properties. The Cliff property currently has an encroachment authorized by a special use permit held by The House on the Metolius. The School property contains church and school uses, and following the exchange, Metolius, LLC would donate it to the Black Butte School District.
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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.
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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.