(2007-05-18) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.); Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)
Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of project EA, commercially thinning about 51 acres in three plantations, implementing routine road maintenance, creating four snags per acre by topping or girdling, and creating down wood from the overstory cohort.
(2007-05) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.); Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)
Proposes to continue long-term objectives of learning about effects to overstory trees from overstory density treatments, learning how overstory treatments affect understory trees, and learning how treatments affect understory species diversity. Includes density management treatments reducing the areas with 60 trees per acre to about 17 trees per acre, reducint the areas with 100 trees per acre to about 40 per acre, and measuring thinning and yarding impacts, dead wood decay rates, and artificial and natural recruitment rates of dead wood.
