Abstract:
Proposes to conduct restoration activities in order to reduce road-related impacts, improve riparian conditions, adjust dedicated old growth areas, capture the economic value of surplus trees, and improve the health, vigor, and resiliency of vegetation to insects, disease, wildfire, and other disturbances. Actions include landscape-level fuels reduction treatments,; riparian restoration of spring sites; manual treatment of noxious weed sites; closure, decommissioning, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads; and commercial, precommercial, and intermediate thinning, juniper reduction, and restoration of aspen and cottonwood.
Description:
864 pp. Tables, figures, maps, glossary, references, index, appendices, illus.
"The Silvies Canyon Watershed comprises
about 81,000 acres within seven
subwatersheds. The watershed is located
about 20 air miles north of Burns, Oregon
on the Emigrant Creek and Blue Mountain
Ranger Districts (formerly Burns and Bear
Valley Ranger Districts) of the Malheur
National Forest. Restoration activities will
be focused on about 65,000 acres in these
subwatersheds: Myrtle Park, Sage Hen
Creek, Stancliffe Creek, Burnt Mountain,
Boulder Creek/Fawn Creek, Myrtle Creek,
and Red Hill."
Captured June 20, 2008.
