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Item Open Access Middle Fork Irrigation District 2008 projects decision memo(2008-07-08) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision approving repair of pipeline, drain, stabilizing and replacing vaults at Laurance Lake.Item Open Access Precommercial thinning decision memo(2008-03) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision proposing to precommercially thin approximately 5,774 acres of young, overstocked plantations. Approximately 1,028 acres are within riparian reserves. Within the riparian reserves, cut trees would be hand piled as needed, to help provide interim down woody structure. Units adjacent to streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps and springs would have a 30-foot "no cut" buffer from the high water level.Item Open Access DB Cooper fuel reduction demonstration project decision memo(2008-04) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)The fuels reduction treatment would include removing smaller diameter trees and reducing the overlap of overstory trees to 45 percent canopy cover; reducing ladder fuels to lower the probability of torching and crowning; and either piling and burning or mechanically treating fuels with methods such as slash busting or grinding. A second entry of pile burning would reduce the fuel loadings to approximately 10 tons per acre and reduce the fire hazard to a moderate/low category.Item Open Access Robinhood Creek helicopter log deck decision memo(2008-06-12) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Approves action to temporarily store logs at a log deck in Nottingham Campground, and then transport them via helicopter to Robinhood Creek. The area of the proposed project is an open forest, predominantly lodgepole pine 20 to 40 feet tall, intermixed with conifers and hardwoods with an understory of grasses and low shrubs. Logs will be transported via log truck from existing log decks to the proposed log deck site adjacent to the main access road into Nottingham Campground.Item Open Access North Fork Mill Creek restoration opportunities environmental assessment(2008-12) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Proposed Action proposes to treat approximately 2,800 acres. The purpose of the treatments is to improve forest health conditions (removing root rot pockets, removing diseased trees) and reduce hazardous fuels (removal of surface fuels, removal of ladder fuels, and opening of the canopy). The mechanical fuels reduction treatment methods would consist of tree thinning from below, machine piling, hand thinning, pruning by hand, machine mastication, and manual brush removal. Underburning (prescribed fire) would be used in combination with mechanical treatments (954 acres) or without any additional treatments (610 acres) to restore stand health and to restore fire to its historical role.Item Open Access North Fork Mill Creek restoration opportunities decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2008-12-19) Mt. Hood National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Proposed Action proposes to treat approximately 2,800 acres. The purpose of the treatments is to improve forest health conditions (removing root rot pockets, removing diseased trees) and reduce hazardous fuels (removal of surface fuels, removal of ladder fuels, and opening of the canopy). The mechanical fuels reduction treatment methods would consist of tree thinning from below, machine piling, hand thinning, pruning by hand, machine mastication, and manual brush removal. Underburning (prescribed fire) would be used in combination with mechanical treatments (954 acres) or without any additional treatments (610 acres) to restore stand health and to restore fire to its historical role.