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16 Road forest health project environmental assessment, decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2006-09-29) Prairie City Ranger District (Or.)
Environmental assessment proposes to take action on hazardous fuel reduction and related needs along the 16 Road area forested public travel corridor identified in the Grant County Community Fire Protection Plan as containing a fire evacuation route from an "at-risk community." Decision Notice announces implementation of Alternative 2 of the project EA, including both noncommercial and commercial thinning using low-thinning methods to remove mid-level trees which contribute to crown fire potential or bark beetle risk, up to 21 inches in diameter at breast height.
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1610 Roadside treatment project final decision memo
(2009-03-16) Umpqua National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision implementing roadside treatments by thinning, pruning, piling or chipping slash along the major roads (Forest Road 1610, 1610-050, 1610-100, 1610-500) within the lower Devil's Knob portion of the Elk Creek watershed. Trees and brush would be removed to bring the resulting condition to a Fuel Model 8 (an open stand with limited ground fuel) with low to moderate fuel loading resulting in healthier growing conditions for the stands. Treatment will occur alongside existing specified roads (generally 150' each side of road).
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18 Fire recovery project draft environmental impact statement
(2004-06) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Describes the effects of implementing 3 alternatives for the recovery of Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District lands that burned 3810 acres in the 18 Fire of 2003. Seeks to recover commercial value, expedite the establishment and restoration of a dry ponderosa pine forest following a stand replacing fire, and reduce future fuel loadings to lessen the political effects of future fire behavior potential. Includes salvage harvesting, fuels reduction, conifer planting, and road closing and decommissioning.
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18 Fire recovery project final environmental impact statement
(2004-10) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Describes the effects of implementing 3 alternatives for the recovery of Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District lands that burned 3810 acres in the 18 Fire of 2003. Seeks to recover commercial value, expedite the establishment and restoration of a dry ponderosa pine forest following a stand replacing fire, and reduce future fuel loadings to lessen the potential effects of future fire behavior potential. Includes salvage harvesting, fuels reduction, conifer planting, and road closing and decommissioning.
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18 Fire recovery project record of decision
(2004-11) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of project FEIS, regarding Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District Fire 18 that burned 3810 acres in 2003. Seeks to recover commercial value, expedite the establishment and restoration of a dry ponderosa pine forest following a stand replacing fire, and reduce future fuel loadings to lessen the potential effects of future fire behavior potential. Includes salvage harvesting, fuels reduction, conifer planting, and road closing and decommissioning.
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18-Fire competing vegetation control project decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2006-02-17) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of the project EA, providing for an economic and affordable means of controlling competing vegetation so that planted ponderosa pine seedlings can become established after the deforestation by the 18-Fire. Includes carrying out up to two applications of a pelletized formulation of the herbicide hexazinone over the next five years within a 3-5 foot radius of seedlings.
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18-Fire competing vegetation control project environmental assessment
(2006-02) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to provide for an economical and affordable means of controlling competing vegetation so that planted ponderosa pine seedlings can become established after the deforestation caused by the 18-Fire. Includes carrying out up to two applications of a pelletized formulation of the herbicide hexazinone over the next five years within a 3-5 foot radius of seedlings.
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18-Fire competing vegetation control project environmental assessment 30-day comment period
(2005-12) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to provide for an economical and affordable means of controlling competing competition so that planted ponderosa pine seedlings can become established after the deforestation caused by the 18-Fire. Includes carrying out up to two applications of a pelletized formulation of the herbicide hexazinone over the next five years within a 3-5 foot radius of seedlings.
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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 Non-Commercial thinning and fuels reduction project decision memo and categorical exclusion
(2008-06-09) Umatilla National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Approximately 500 acres per year will be treated during a five year period beginning in 2008 for a total of 2,500 acres. Of the 500 acres treated each year, approximately 300 acres will be non-commercially thinned and 200 acres will be treated for fuels reduction using either hand or mechanical methods. Access will be restricted to existing roads.
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2008 Non-commercial thinning and fuels reduction project: Decision memo/categorical exclusion
(2008-06-09) Pomeroy Ranger District (Or. and Wash.)
Announces implementation of project to non-commercially thin 2500 acres over 5 years in 12 areas to reduce tree stocking levels to increase growth and vigor of desirable trees in a stand, decrease density-dependent mortality, increase diameter growth rates, increase length of crown retained by trees, increase resistance to insect and disease attack, and to reduce ladder fuels. Also finds that treatment will not threaten sensitive plant and terrestrial wildlife or habitat.
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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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2008-2012 Pre-commercial thinning decision memo
(2008-01-30) Umpqua National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Announces decision to approve pre-commercial thinning projects. The purpose of this project is to reduce stand densities, prolong early seral stage stand structure, increase growth rate of dominant trees, and enhance species diversity. Associated hazardous fuels reduction would reduce fuel bed depths along major roads and improve condition class. A total of 3761 acres of plantations have been identified as potentially benefiting from thinning under this proposal.
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Ajax/Magnolia project
(2002-12) Umatilla National Forest (Agency : U.S.); North Fork John Day Ranger District (Or.); EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc.; Millennium Science and Engineering, Inc.
Contains several documents, including abbreviated preliminary assessments of each of the Ajax and Magnolia mines, a site inspection of the two mines, a public participation plan, and an engineering evaluation/cost analysis (EE/CA of the mines, as well as earlier material on clay mineralogy and a sample data summary package. After screening of the waste piles with the Niton XRF unit, the proximity to Lucas Gulch and EPA's APA checklist, both Ajax and Magnolia were recommended for Site Inspection (SI) in the Abbreviated Preliminary Assessments. The SI found high concentrations of metals in the adits and retention ponds of both mines, with rock piles and soil contaminated from AMD, with arsenic migrating downstream from the Magnolia site to the onsite stream station at Ajax Mine. After an EE/CA was recommended, a Public Participation Plan was created and a list of recipients drawn up. Finally, an EE/CA was performed for a proposed CERCLA removal action for the two inactive gold mines. Seventeen metals were found to be ecological threats, some of which threatened spawning and rearing and the migratory pathways of federally-listed bull trout and steelhead, and arsenic created a threat to child recreationists and adult workers. Proposed alternatives include excavation and onsite disposal and adit discharge treatment.
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Allison Guard Station improvement project environmental assessment, decision notice, and finding of no significant impact
(2004-10-05) Malheur National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Environmental assessment proposes to improve Guard Station built by Civilian Conservation Corps, planning to 1) convert an existing warehouse/bunkhouse into more bunkhouse space, 2) reconstruct building foundations that are deteriorating, 3) construct a new vehicle storage shed in a manner that is consistent with the site’s historic character, 4) remove or modify the generator building and move the generator to the vehicle shed, 5) replace and upgrade an above ground fuel tank to meet spill standards and fire codes, 6) improve access to the cookhouse to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements (ADA) and 7) improve the water system by fixing the current spring box or drilling a well. Decision Notice announces implementation of the project, which will meet requirements for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Aspen planning area vegetation management decision notice and finding of no significant impact
(2005) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 of project EA, improving and protecting deer winter range by reducing the risk of insect outbreaks, the spread of disease pathogens and high intensity wildfire that could further jeopardize critical deer habitat, which is lacking desirable vegetative shrub and tree composition and structure, and is substantially fragmented by roads. Thinning and fuel treatments include non-commercial thinning of conifers, mowing shrubs, underburning, burning under late and old structure ponderosa pine, and juniper removal with clumps of old-growth juniper left behind.
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Aspen planning area vegetation management environmental assessment
(2004-04) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to improve and protect deer winter range by reducing the risk of insect outbreaks, the spread of disease pathogens and high intensity wildfire that could further jeopardize critical deer habitat, which presently lacks desirable vegetative shrub and tree composition and structure, and is substantially fragmented by roads. Thinning and fuel treatments include non-commercial thinning of conifers, mowing shrubs, underburning, burning under late and old structure ponderosa pine, and juniper removal with clumps of old-growth juniper left behind.