Walla Walla Ranger District
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Item Open Access Cobbler timber sale and fuels reduction project draft environmental assessment(2009-01) Umatilla National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Proposes to harvest commercially approximately 2500 acres and exercise 60 acres of fuels treatment.Item Open Access Lower Sheep timber sale and fire reintroduction project environmental assessment, decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2005-06) Walla Walla Ranger District (Wash.)EA proposes to reduce fuels in seven areas that cover approximately 4301 acres using prescribed fire (3000 acres), handcutting, piling and burning of fuels (53 acres), and timber harvest (220 acres). Timber harvest would also be used on another 2678 acres to increase stand vigor and resiliences, removing about 16 MBF. Also includes 60 miles of road maintenance and two miles of temporary roads. Decision notice announces implementation of project EA Alternative B, using a combination of timber harvest and fuel reduction activities.Item Open Access Loon fuels reduction project environmental assessment(2007-02-19) Walla Walla Ranger District (Wash.)Proposes to use fuel treatments in the Upper Grande Ronde Watersheds to reduce surface and aerial fuels on approximately 2,870 acres using various treatments including timber harvest and prescribed fire. Includes harvesting 4.8 MBF of timber, as well as noncommercial thinning and about 43 miles of road maintenance.Item Open Access Jasper salvage timber sale decision memo(2007-07-20) Walla Walla Ranger District (Wash.)Announces decision to implement project in response to 2006 fire. Includes removal of dead trees that represent a threat or danger to public safety, harvesting trees before decay and deterioration occur, securing revenue to help finance post-fire restoration and other activities, and providing direct and indirect benefits for the local and regional economy.Item Open Access Phillips-Gordon ecosystem analysis and Upland forest vegetation analysis(2001-10) Walla Walla Ranger District (Wash.)Vegetation analysis considers various treatment recommendations, including salvage of dead trees, planting, thinning, improvement cutting in stands where the early-seral species still exist, forest regeneration on dry-forest sites where early-seral species no longer exist, understory removal/thinning, pruning, and prescribed fire. Ecosystem analysis recommendations list priority subwatersheds, enhancement of minor forest species, prescribed fire, road system upgrades to improve water quality, riparian revegetation, introduction of woody debris and fish passage restoration, noxious weed control, and maintenance or restoration of late/old forest structure.