South Pyramid timber sale environmental assessment

Abstract

Proposes to thin about 189 acres of overstocked, mid-seral, metal stands experiencing stagnation and mortality, contributing approximately 8000-9000 CCF (hundred cubic feet) of wood fiber toward the District's timber target for 2007, enhancing growth and vigor of timber stands and/or reducing future losses from fire, insects and diseases. Additionally, thinning would maintain dispersal, and sometimes suitable (nesting, roosting and foraging) habitat within harvest units in a critical habitat unit for northern spotted owls, and to return future management options in an area that is currently unroaded.