Wildcat fuels reduction and vegetation management project environmental assessment
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Date
2008-03
Authors
Heppner Ranger District (Or.)
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Abstract
Proposes vegetation and fuels
management on about 13,900 acres to improve the health, and vigor of the upland forest, and reduce
the potential for future fires of uncharacteristic effects in upland forests through the reduction of
hazardous fuels and reduction of ladder fuels. Vegetation management treatments include commercial
thinning of about 2,218 acres, mechanical fuels treatment of 2,113 acres of standing dead and downed
woody material and reduction of conifer regeneration resulting from the late 1980s and early 1990s
spruce bud worm outbreak, noncommercial thinning of about 1,186 acres and treatment of surface fuels
on about 10,288 acres. Maintenance of existing roads (39 miles of open and 41 miles closed),
construction of a new system road for 2.2 miles, obliteration of 2.4 miles, and construction of about 3.6
miles of temporary road would be required for access and haul purposes.
Description
301 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and appendices.
T.5S., R.27E., Sections 13, 22-28, 33-36; T.5S., R.28E., Sections 18-
20, 28-32; T.6S., R.27E., Sections 1-4, 8-17, 21-27, 35-36; and T.6S., R.28E., Sections 5-9, 16-21.
Captured June 19, 2008.
Keywords
Forest management -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.), Fuel reduction (Wildfire prevention) -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.), Vegetation management -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.), Forest thinning -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.), Logging -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.), Forest roads -- Umatilla National Forest (Or. and Wash.)