Greater La Pine community wildland urban interface hazardous fuel reduction project environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
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2007-04
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Zusammenfassung
Proposes to reduce the potential for high-intensity wildfires by manipulating vegetation to decrease surface and crown fire behavior, including revolving surface fuel loading, ladder fuel presence, and crown bulk density. Focuses on treating vegetation within the wildland urban interface up to 1.5 miles from community boundaries, with the boundary subdivided into three bands of treatment prescriptions. Includes pre-commercial and commercial thinning, and prescribed burning.
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118 pp. Tables, maps, references, appendices.
The Planning Area covers approximately 120,000 acres of mixed public and private ownership.
Public land ownership consists of: BLM (42,000 acres), State of Oregon (2,381 acres), and
Deschutes County (821 acres). Private timber companies such as Olympic Resources occupy
approximately 82,000 acres, and more than 3,500 acres (180 parcels) are privately owned.
Captured July 31, 2007.
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Public lands -- Oregon -- Prineville Region, Grazing districts -- Oregon -- Prineville Region, Grazing -- Environmental aspects -- Oregon -- Prineville Region