Abstract:
Announces decision implementing silvicultural project utilizing commercial thinning and regeneration harvest
techniques on a total of 72 acres of Matrix and 16 acres of Riparian Reserve land use allocations. The
project, consisting of three treatment units, is located within the Dairy Creek watershed approximately 9
miles west of Scappoose, Oregon and approximately 16 miles northwest of Portland, Oregon in Columbia
County, on land managed by the Tillamook Resource Area of the Salem District BLM. This project,
which is referred to as the "Powerline Dairy Timber Sale", could commence as early as spring 2007.
Activities associated with this project include the commercial harvest of timber on 88 acres using cable
and ground-based yarding systems; use of the Scappoose-Vernonia Highway, Gunner's Lake Mainline
Road and the Pisgah Home Road as haul routes; construction of approximately 4320 feet of temporary
road; reconstruction of approximately 1550 feet of temporary road; decommission approximately 5870
feet of temporary road; and conduct post-harvest site preparation and planting.