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Item Open Access Busy Signal CT timber sale decision record(2009-01-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision approving project implementing commercial thinning totaling 45 acres and density management thinning totaling 50 acres in dense conifer stands. The Busy Signal CT Timber Sale will require construction of 0.17 miles of new roads, and renovation of 4.18 miles of existing roads. A total of 1.53 miles of newly constructed and renovated roads will be decommissioned with this timber sale.Item Open Access Pink Panther CT timber sale decision documentation(2009-02-24) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision approving project implementing commercial thinning totaling 117 acres and density management thinning totaling 53 acres in dense conifer stands. The Pink Panther CT Timber Sale will require construction of 0.45 miles of new roads, and renovation of 5.82 miles of existing roads. This timber sale will decommission a total of 0.90 miles of newly constructed and renovated roads.Item Open Access Loon Lake and East Shore hazard tree removal categorical exclusion review(2009-02-05) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictDetermines no further analysis is needed for project providing a safe environment for Loon Lake and East Shore Campground visitors. There are six grand fir trees at East Shore Campground that are weakened from annosus root rot. In order to keep the disease under control and eliminate all hazards, these trees need to be felled. There are also two Douglas-fir trees, at Loon Lake Campground, that have started to lean and need to be removed.Item Open Access North Soup and Blue Retro density management study finding of no significant impact(2009-02-26) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictFinds no further environmental study is needed for project implementing silvicultural treatments on approximately 223 acres of BLM administered lands (Table II-1). This action would include thinning of conifer stands in the Timber Management Area (TMA), Late-Successional Management Area (LSMA), and Riparian Management Area (RMA) land-use allocations. All of the thinning treatments in this action would yield commercial wood products as a result of implementing the study prescription, however, thinning in the TMA is termed commercial thinning (CT) while thinning in the LSMA and RMA is termed density management thinning (DMT).Item Open Access North Soup and Blue Retro density management study environmental assessment(2009-02-18) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe proposed action is to implement silvicultural treatments on approximately 223 acres of BLM administered lands (Table II-1). This action would include thinning of conifer stands in the Timber Management Area (TMA), Late-Successional Management Area (LSMA), and Riparian Management Area (RMA) land-use allocations. All of the thinning treatments in this action would yield commercial wood products as a result of implementing the study prescription, however, thinning in the TMA is termed commercial thinning (CT) while thinning in the LSMA and RMA is termed density management thinning (DMT).Item Open Access Mister Slate CT timber sale decision documentation(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces decision approving project, implementing commercial thinning totaling 131 acres and density management thinning totaling 55 acres in dense conifer stands. The Mister Slate CT Timber Sale will require construction of 0.21 miles of new roads, and renovation of 0.87 miles of existing roads. The 0.21 miles of newly constructed roads will be decommissioned with this timber sale.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 sale of special forest products categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces no further analysis is required on project. Under the Special Forest Products Program, contracts, including permits and tags, would be offered and administered for harvesting a variety of special forest products. Contracts may include Form 5450-5 for the sale of vegetative material up to a value of $2499.00 and Form 5450-1 for the sale of vegetative material over $2500.00, Christmas tree tags, and free use permits. Products to be harvested include, but are not limited to; firewood, posts and poles, chips, cedar wood products, transplant stock (tree seedlings, shrubs, and herbaceous plants), cut sticks, moss, beargrass, boughs and Christmas trees, other floral greenery, cones, burls, bark, roots, pitch, and fungi. Except for wood products, the items listed in this Categorical Exclusion review will be harvested manually. Wood products will involve the use of mechanical equipment such as chainsaws, tracked log skidder, cable yarding equipment, helicopter, loader and log trucks. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy. All Research Natural Areas, developed recreation sites, and special status fauna and flora sites will be excluded from harvest.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 tailhold and guyline requests categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces no further analysis is required on project. Use of tailhold and guyline trees to facilitate logging operations is a common occurrence throughout this region. The topography and terrain dictate the location where the use of these trees is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner must utilize trees on neighboring BLM lands. Use of tailholds on BLM will allow the operator to achieve better log suspension thereby reducing impacts to soil and watershed resources in the harvest area. Guyline trees are required for the safe operation of the yarding equipment. This CX pertains to requests from adjacent landowners that are not currently authorized through Reciprocal Right-of-Way Agreements.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 fire line construction categorical exclusion review(2008-10-11) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictCategorically excludes fire line construction project in support of slash disposal operations. The topography and terrain often dictate where the location for fire lines is most beneficial. The checkerboard ownership pattern often necessitates that an adjacent landowner locate fire lines on neighboring BLM lands. Fire lines would be strategically located on both BLM and privately owned lands thus maximizing prescribed fire managers opportunities to safely contain and control the prescribed burn. Proper location of fire lines will reduce the chances of an escaped fire and thereby help to reduce potential impacts to watershed resources in the general area of the burn operations. Seasonal restrictions may be required to minimize impacts to T&E species, as outlined in the current Biological Opinion. Fire lines would be cleared of vegetation to a width of eight (8) feet. Within the fire line the fire trail would be cleared to mineral soil to a width of three (3) feet. Water bars would be constructed across all fire trails following the slope guidelines below. Water bars would consist of a six inch deep trench oriented at a 30- to 45-degree angle with respect to the fire line. Water bars would extend approximately six inches beyond the width of the fire trail.Item Open Access Coos Bay FY 2009 removal of roadway salvage and hazard trees categorical exclusion review(2008-10-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictCategorically excludes project of single salvage sales less than 50 mbf in compliance with Coos Bay Instruction Memorandum OR120-2007-03. Heavy equipment would be cleaned in accordance with the District Noxious Weed Policy.Item Open Access Sudden oak death treatment categorical exclusion review(2008-10-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe Coos Bay District would perform vegetation treatments for the treatment of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum on all infected plants and eradication zones identified by agency Forest Pathologists. Treatment of up to 250 acres could potentially be accomplished under this CX. The eradication zone would include vegetation to be cut and burned that is located at least 300 feet from the nearest infected plant, but could increase to larger distances based on direction from pathologists as they continue to learn more about the disease and continue to adapt accordingly.Item Open Access Coos Bay 2009 and 2010 sample tree falling categorical exclusion documentation(2008-11-03) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to fall, buck and scale sample trees ("sample tree felling") during the 2009 and 2010 calendar year to ensure the accuracy of timber cruises for future forest management actions. Trees would be felled only in areas that have been planned, marked, and cruised for timber harvest. Felled trees would be a subset of the trees designated for removal in the timber harvest area. The proposed action would be implemented on the above listed timber sale projects on the Coos Bay District as a precursor to timber sale contract preparation.Item Open Access King Myrtle environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact(2008-11-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe proposed action is to implement silvicultural treatments on approximately 700 acres of BLM administered lands. This action would include thinning of conifer stands in the GFMA, Late-successional Reserves (LSR), and Riparian Reserve (RR) land-use allocations. All of the thinning treatments in this action would yield commercial wood products; however, thinning in the GFMA is termed commercial thinning (CT) while thinning in the LSR and RR is termed density management thinning (DMT) because of differing management objectives.Item Open Access Remote Control timber sale decision record and finding of no significant impact(2008-12-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAnnounces implementation of project EA, providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume.Item Open Access Remote Control timber sale finding of no significant impact(2008-11-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictFinds no environmental impact statement is needed for project. Adopting the proposed action would contribute to fulfilling the need for forest products by providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume.Item Open Access Remote Control timber sale environmental assessment(2008-11-21) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictAdopting the proposed action would contribute to fulfilling the need for forest products by providing approximately 8.5 million board feet (MMbf) of timber through regeneration harvest. This volume would count toward the Coos Bay District's annual ASQ of 27 MMbf and would also incrementally diminish the disparity between the actual decadal regeneration harvest volume and the District's ROD anticipated decadal regeneration harvest volume. Also includes fuel treatments and road activities.Item Open Access Rock Bottom CT timber sale decision documentation(2008-12-30) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe EA's Proposed Action includes thinning approximately 1,400 acres of young conifer stands in the Matrix and Riparian Reserve land use allocations, construction of approximately 4.1 miles of new road, renovation/improvement of approximately 14.8 miles of existing roads, and decommissioning a total of 10.7 miles of new and existing roads.Item Open Access New River foredune management environmental assessment(2008-12-15) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictProposes to modify past plover habitat restoration techniques and re-establish dune heights to mitigate blowing sand and ocean overwash into the New River system. To maintain past acreage available for plover habitat restoration activities, the current Habitat Restoration Area (HRA) boundary would be moved south and incorporate the previously designated "potential" HRA acres. Includes the FINAL review and write-up of the geology/geomorphology for the Western Snowy Plover Habitat Restoration Area Environmental Assessment for New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, EA OR128-06-01. This document incorporates the New River Health EA OR128-03-11 Geological/Geomorphologic Review, completed July 31, 2003. This document provides the background and basis for reviews, research and interpretation of work done on this present EA.Item Open Access Spruce Reach culvert project environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact(2008-12) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe Proposed Action is to install a 10-foot by 66-foot culvert in an unnamed, tidally-influenced tributary to the Umpqua River and construct a 20-foot wide by 110-foot long road over the pipe between Highway 38 and Spruce Reach Island. The BLM would also restore 0.07 acre of intertidal wetland habitat to mitigate for filling 0.07 acre of intertidal wetland habitat at the culvert installation site. The Oregon Department of State Lands and the Army Corps of Engineers require wetland restoration to compensate for wetland area and functions lost due to crossing construction. Intertidal habitat occurs between the high and low tide levels. The culvert site and mitigation site are approximately 200 feet apart and both areas are adjacent to Hinsdale Slough. Excavation of the mitigation area would be completed immediately after construction of the culvert crossing.Item Open Access Luts Hedden CT timber sale decision documentation(2008-12-22) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Coos Bay DistrictThe Proposed Action Alternative proposes to thin approximately 8,796 acres of conifer and to convert approximately 167 acres of red alder to conifer in 31-80 year old stands within the Umpqua River-Sawyer Rapids Fifth Field Watershed. The edges of the project area overlap into Vincent Creek, Big Creek-Lower Umpqua, Lower Elk Creek, and Lower Camp Creek subwatersheds all within Douglas County.