Otis Mountain/Moffet Table fuels management project environmental assessment

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2007-06

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United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns District

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Proposes to utilize a combination of prescribed burning and silvicultural thinning to reduce fuels and restore fire adapted ecosystems on 5000 acres of ponderosa pine dominated forests and woodlands, and 26,500 acres of sagebrush-steppe. Treatments include hazardous fuels reduction, noncommercial thinning, commercial thinning, pile burning, underburning, broadcast burning, jackpot burning, juniper cutting, and conifer cutting.

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102 pp. Tables, maps, references, appendices, illus. The Otis Mountain/Moffet Table Project Area encompasses approximately 22,547 acres of BLM-managed lands and 10,835 acres of privately owned lands within portions of six grazing allotments north of Drewsey, Oregon. Grazing allotments included within the Project Area include: Birch Creek (T. 18 S., R. 35 E., Sections 20-21; 28; 33), Otis Mountain (T. 18 S., R. 35 E., Sections 22-27; T. 18 S., R. 36 E., Section 31; T. 19 S., R. 35 E., Sections 1-3; 10-15; T. 19 S., R. 36 E., Sections 6-7; 18), Moffet Table (T. 18 S., R. 34 E., Sections 23-26; 34-36; T. 18 S., R. 35 E., Sections 19-21; 28-33; T. 19 S., R. 34 E., Sections 1-3; 10-12; T. 19 S., R. 35 E., Sections 5-7; 17-18), Mule Creek (T. 18 S., R. 35 E., Sections 32-33; T. 19 S., R. 35 E., Sections 4-5; 8-9), Newell Field (T. 19 S., R. 35 E., Sections 14-15; 22-23; 26), and Big Upson Field (T. 19 S., R. 35 E., Sections 13; 24-25). Major road access to the project is provided by the Otis Valley Road along the eastern boundary of the Project Area and Forest Service Road 14 on the western boundary. Captured August 6, 2007.

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Otis Mountain (Or.), Public lands -- Oregon -- Burns Region -- Management, Fuel reduction (Wildfire prevention) -- Oregon -- Burns Region, Forest thinning -- Oregon -- Burns Region, Prescribed burning -- Oregon -- Burns Region

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