Finding of no significant impact for Slickear/Claw Creek forest restoration environmental assessment

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2008-07

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United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burns District

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Proposes to reduce hazardous fuels, restore plant communities, and improve wildlife habitat diversity by utilizing various methods of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. Includes closing or moving a .75 mile stretch of road, and treatment for four dominant vegetative communities: forest areas (ponderosa pine stands), low/stiff sagebrush flats, mountain big sagebrush-bunchgrasses communities, and aspen stands.

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128 pp. Tables, references, maps, appendices, illus. Slickear Creek Unit is located almost exclusively within Skull Creek Grazing Allotment with elevation ranges from 4,400 to 5,000 feet (T. 20 S., R. 29 E., Sections 31-35, and T. 21 S., R. 29 E., Sections 2-11 and 14-18; Maps 2 and 3). Claw Creek Unit is located almost exclusively within Claw Creek Allotment with elevation ranges from 4,660 to 5,150 feet (T. 21 S., R. 26 E., Sections 12, 13, and 24 and T 21 S. R. 27 E., Sections 7, 8, and 17-20; Maps 4 and 5). Captured September 4, 2008.

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

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