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Documents in this collection are those land area planning documents that deal with a specified location or area rather than the national forest or ranger district as a whole.
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Item Open Access Beaver Creek watershed analysis(2001-10) Waldport Ranger District (Or.)As required by the Northwest Forest Plan, the analysis discusses the ecological processes at work in the watershed, and focuses on older forests and coho salmon. Includes issues, findings, recommendations, and organizations providing assistance.Item Open Access Big Marsh late successional reserves(1997-10) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)Assessment addresses three LSRs within the Big Marsh Watershed : Crescent, Lower Big Marsh,and Upper Big Marsh, providing background, key questions and management strategies. Description of current conditions (forest structure, composition, vegetation patterns and fire-caused mortality projection) provide a framework for identification, design and prioritization of treatments. The three LSRs are comprised of seven plant association groups (dry lodgepole pine, wet lodgepole pine, mixed conifer dry, mixed conifer wet, mountain hemlock, riparian, and rock).Item Open Access Cache late successional reserve: LSR assessment(2000-05-30) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Strategic document addresses the ecological significance of eastern Cascade disturbance regimes and the need to provide late-successional habitat conditions for species such as the northern spotted owl. The assessment identifies management activities needed to: (1) reduce the risk of habitat loss from catastrophic disturbances such as fire, insects, and disease, and (2) sustain late-successional habitats whether the goal is to provide fire or climatic late-successional conditions. Also examines current activities, providing recommendations for maintaininng, restricting or eliminating them.Item Open Access Cultus Mountain Sheridan Mountain late-successional reserve assessment(1996) Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District (Or.)Specific objectives of the LSR Assessment include: 1) Determine the Desired Conditions for the vegetative resources within the LSR in order to achieve the Standards and Guidelines that are specified within the NWFP; 2) Identify opportunities for short and long-term management actions to improve the sustainability of habitats for late-successional habitat dependent species; 3) Identify actions to reduce risks associated with epidemic insect and disease infestations and related risks of large-scale fire events to the extent practical; and 4) Address the issue of connectivity between LSRs.Item Open Access Davis late-successional reserve assessment(1995) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)Identifies six areas of existing and historic vegetative conditions and the wildlife species that could logically be managed to provide a similar habitat type and function: mixed conifer for northern spotted owl (54%), mixed conifer for bald eagle (8%), mixed conifer/lodgepole with dual connectivity function (3%), mixed conifer/lodgepole/ponderosa for great grey owl and/or bald eagle (6%), lodgepole with/without riparian for black-backed woodpecker and/or riparian habitat (16%), and mountain hemlock for wolverine and black-backed woodpecker (13%). The six areas were then assessed according to the following criteria: the existing habitat function within and outside of the LSR, the effects of past timber harvesting on the desired habitat function, the risk of catastrophic loss of existing old growth due to fire, insects, and disease; existing human uses within the area; and other factors influencing the attainment of the desired late and old structured ecosystems. The immediate need in the LSR was determined to be reducing the risk of catastrophic loss in a portion of the existing late and old-structured stands that are imminently susceptible to insect attack or wildfire.Item Open Access Deschutes National Forest: A late successional reserve overview(1995-09-01) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Provides information to: 1) discuss the importance of LSRs for maintaining ecosystem and species viability, 2) discuss the vegetative composition and structural instability of each LSR, 3) discuss whether or not each LSR needs to be sustained to provide habitat for all LSOG-related species or whether each LSR provides unique habitats and can be managed for different species, 4) identifies the roles of Congressionally Reserved Areas, Administratively Withdrawn Areas, and Matrix in maintaining late successional and old growth habitats, and 5) evaluates whether or not Matrix lands are important for connectivity and dispersal habitat.Item Open Access Granite Creek Tributary Mines initiation of CERCLA investigation memorandum(2007-02-20) United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest RegionDocuments, pursuant to the guidelines of the National Oil and Hazardous Substance Contingency Plan (NCP), the decision to initiate a CERCLA investigation in nine locations at the Granite Creek Tributary Mines site. A Site Inspection has determined that a hazardous release has occurred and a human health and ecological risk assessment has been performed and acceptable exposure exceeded. Identifies possible threats to nearby human populations, animals, food chain, soils, and drinking water.Item Open Access Meadow Creek Watershed analysis(2002) La Grande Ranger District (Or.)Documents the completed update for the 1994 Upper Grande Ronde Watershed Analysis, investigating needs, opportunities, priorities, effects, and success measurements. Includes description, issues, key questions and relevant processes, past and current conditions, desired condition and trends, management opportunities, landscape scale monitoring workplan, and management thresholds.Item Open Access Metolius late successional reserve(1996-08-08) Sisters Ranger District (Or.)Delineates thirteen Management Strategy Areas based on (1) common plant association groups; (2) known spotted owl and other late-successional associated species sites; (3) rural interface areas; (4) common silvicultural opportunities; (5) common fire management strategies.Item Open Access Proposed modifications to Davis late successional reserve assessment(2003-03-06) Crescent Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to modify the LSR guidelines to leave sufficient down wood in untreated blocks strategically located to meet existing guidelines and to allow adequately for treatments, proposed for the purpose of reducing fire hazard, for development of habitat structure, and treating areas that are necessary to obtain long-term objective as stated in Odell Pilot Watershed assessment and the Davis LSR assessment.Item Open Access Supplement to the Marys River Watershed preliminary analysis(2005) Siuslaw National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Documents an analysis of a portion of the Marys River Watershed, supplementing the information found in the 1999 preliminary analysis. Recommendations include forest and precommercial thinning, planting trees to restore diversity, decommissioning and maintaining roads, protecting or enhancing grassy bald and meadow habitat, improving fish passage and replacing culverts, preventing and controlling invasive non-native plant species, and managing fire hazard and risk.Item Open Access Upper Deschutes wild and scenic river and state scenic waterway comprehensive management plan(1996-07) Deschutes National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Direction of the plan stems from extensive analysis and considerations documented in the FEIS, and is based on Alternative 6. Includes background, implementation and coordination, outstandingly remarkable values and special attributes, Amendment #12 to the Deschutes Management Plan, private land use, activity priorities, adaptive flow arrangement strategy, and monitoring program.Item Open Access Upper Grande Ronde Watershed analysis(2004) Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Analyzes the watershed and its twelve subwatersheds to facilitate planing, implementation, and evaluation of forest management activities. Identifies existing conditions and provides an analytical framework and integration of the conditions and processes of the ecosystem elements. Lists elements out of balance with the analysis area, and identifies opportunities to return balance to the area subsequently pursued in the analysis.Item Open Access Upper Powder Watershed draft assessment(2005) Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Unfinished draft analyzes the watershed and its thirteen subwatersheds to facilitate planning, implementation, and evaluation of forest management activities. Examines issues, including vegetation and forest health, riparian and aquatic habitat, human uses, and wildlife.