Salem District

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Plum Creek Timberland amendment to right-of-way S-347 Valsetz area categorical exclusion review
(2009-02-12) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Excludes from further environmental analysis amendment to right-of-way. The existing BLM managed land over which the requested access occupies has not been included in RWA S-347 and their addition is therefore discretionary. To minimize future impacts to BLM managed lands, only the lands within the existing 8-6-19.3 segment F road prism will be added by amendment.
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Botkin Road and Klickitat Tie Road fish log salvage categorical exclusion review
(2009-02-10) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Excludes from further environmental analysis projects removing approximately 50 pieces of fallen timber across or adjacent to the existing road network. Maps 1 and 2 indicate known sites where logs are available for removal. For site 1, in addition to tree across the road, remove up to 7 fallen dead trees from adjacent stand. Logs would be transported to a staging area, either at North Fork Alsea Hatchery or Harlan, for eventual use in aquatic restoration projects.
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South Fork Alsea access road hazard tree removal/Alsea Falls Park enhancement environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-12-30) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
This environmental assessment (EA) discloses the predicted environmental effects of two projects on federal land located within the Upper Alsea River and Marys River Watersheds. Project 1 (Roadside Hazard Tree Removal/Roadside Enhancement) is a proposal to remove immediate and potentially future hazard trees and reduce fuel loadings and fire hazard risk adjacent to a backcountry byway [South Fork Alsea Access Road (Rd. # 146- 34.1)]. Project 2 (Park Enhancement) is a proposal to remove hazard trees, enhance stand health in addition to providing a visually appealing and safe park for visitors within the Alsea Falls Recreation Site.
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Moon Creek projects finding of no significant impact
(2008-12-17) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Finds NEPA documentation fully covers plan to to conduct two different project types in the Late Successional Reserve portion of the Northern Coast Range Adaptive Management Area and the Riparian Reserve land use allocations. The first project is a density management thinning of approximately 420 acres. Thinning would occur on federal land in portions of Township 3 South, Range 8 West, Sections 3, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 24, Willamette Meridian. The second project involves coarse wood development treatments on approximately 300 acres.
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East Fork Nehalem project decision record
(2008-12) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Announces decision to implement a multi-year fish and wildlife habitat enhancement project within the East Fork Nehalem watershed. The project includes fish habitat enhancement on a total of approximately 7.8 miles of stream, wildlife habitat enhancement on approximately 216 acres, riparian planting on approximately 10 acres, and fish passage work at two culverts. Project actions on BLM land would be in the Riparian Reserve land use allocation (LUA). Project actions would also occur on private and private industrial land in cooperation with the land owners.
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Moon Creek projects decision record
(2008-12) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Announces approval of projects, including: 1) density management thinning on approximately 420 acres of 30-55 year old, relatively dense Douglas-fir and western hemlock stands, construct and then fully decommission approximately one-half mile of new temporary road, renovate approximately 2.5 miles of existing road and then fully decommission 2 miles of those roads, and reopen and then re-decommission approximately 4.5 miles of previously decommissioned rocked road; and 2) coarse wood development project on approximately 300 acres of forest stands between about 90 and 125 years old.
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Upper and Lower Alsea River Watershed fish passage restoration environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-11-19) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Upper and Lower Alsea River Watershed Fish Passage Restoration is a proposal to restore fish passage to approximately three miles of anadromous and resident fish habitat. The project would replace six stream crossing culverts that currently block fish passage with six culverts that would allow fish passage. The project would also remove a portion of a trash rack that also blocks fish passage.
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Moon Creek projects environmental assessment
(2008-11) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
The Bureau of Land Management proposes to conduct two different project types in the Late Successional Reserve portion of the Northern Coast Range Adaptive Management Area and the Riparian Reserve land use allocations. The first project is a density management thinning of approximately 420 acres. The second project involves coarse wood development treatments on approximately 300 acres.
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Donald Z. Kessi North Fork amendment to right-of-way agreement S-23 environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact, and decision record
(2008-10-17) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Proposes and approves permit to provide legal access to intermingled BLM-managed lands and Donald Z. Kessi (Kessi) owned lands for the purposes of forest management and the removal of timber and other forest products. Regulations at 43 CFR 2812.3-1 allow the authorized officer to require reciprocal access across Permittee's land as a condition precedent to granting access across public lands. The United States has identified Permittee land necessary to provide access to public land in the vicinity of Alsea, Oregon.
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Pisgah progeny salvage categorical exclusion review
(2008-09-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Excludes from further environmental scrutiny proposed action salvaging approximately 5.5 acres of approximately 80-year-old timber that was blown down during winter storms in 2006 and 2007. The project area is in T.4N, R.2E, section 31, about five miles east of Scappoose, Oregon. The trees to be salvaged are located within a stand of timber that was commercially thinned in 2003 via the Pisgah Progeny timber sale. The project area contains about 50 dead and down Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar trees. Approximately 30 trees would be harvested using ground-based equipment operating from approved skid trails and existing rocked roads. The remainder of the dead and down trees would be left on site for coarse woody debris.
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Pisgah progeny salvage decision record
(2008-09-16) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Announces decision to implement the project, authorizing salvage harvest of approximately 30 dead and down trees on approximately 5.5 acres of land. Harvest operations will be conducted with ground-based equipment from existing rocked roads and skid trails.
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Wildwood Footbridge maintenance decision record
(2008-09) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Approves project performing maintenance on the Salmon River footbridge, utilizing a partial containment system designed to contain water and solids dislodged during maintenance activities (EA section 2.2). The footbridge maintenance project area is within the Salmon River fifth field watershed, near the City of Sandy in Clackamas County, Oregon. The project area is located within Wildwood Recreation site; a 500 acre BLM managed day use recreation area.
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Sandy River Basin integrated management plan environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-08) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
EA analyzes three alternatives outlining integrated management scenarios, and the no action alternative which describes current management actions. Predominant actions include developing recreation opportunities (e.g. facilities and trails), ecosystem enhancement and restoration (e.g. fish and wildlife habitat, soil rehabilitation), vegetation, fire, and realty management.
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East Fork Nehalem project finding of no significant impact
(2008-07-31) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Finds NEPA documentation fully covers plan to implement a multi-year fish and wildlife habitat enhancement project within the East Fork Nehalem watershed. The project includes fish habitat enhancement on a total of approximately 7.8 miles of stream, wildlife habitat enhancement on approximately 216 acres, riparian planting on approximately 10 acres, and fish passage work at two culverts. Project actions on BLM land would be in the Riparian Reserve land use allocation (LUA). Project actions would also occur on private and private industrial land in cooperation with the land owners.
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House Mountain thinning timber sale decision record
(2008-07-29) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Announces decision to implement timber sale, including harvesting on 523 acres, thinning 521 acres (mostly through ground-based yarding), fuel treatments on 80 acres, and renovation, maintenance and construction of roads.
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East Fork Nehalem project environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
(2008-07) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Proposes to implement a multi-year fish and wildlife habitat enhancement project within the East Fork Nehalem watershed. The project includes fish habitat enhancement on a total of approximately 7.8 miles of stream, wildlife habitat enhancement on approximately 216 acres, riparian planting on approximately 10 acres, and fish passage work at two culverts. Project actions on BLM land would be in the Riparian Reserve land use allocation (LUA). Project actions would also occur on private and private industrial land in cooperation with the land owners.
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Marys Peak resource area (Alsea area) coarse woody debris/snag creation and older forest legacy tree release environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact, and decision record
(2008-06-30) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
EA proposes that older forest legacy trees (mature open-grown trees or old-growth remnant trees) that occur in densely-stocked conifer stands (30 to 90 years old) will be released through the felling, girdling and topping of individual trees or creation of gaps (1/4 acre to one acre in size). Treatments in selected forest stands will release the older forest legacy trees so that this complex crown structure will be released from adjacent tree competition for light and water. The majority of trees targeted to be felled, topped or girdled will be 7 to 19 inches DBHOB (diameter breast height outside bark) Douglas-fir trees and none will be greater than 30 inches DBHOB. The felled, girdled or topped trees will function as snags and CWD adjacent to older forest legacy trees. Trees will not be felled within the SPZ (stream protection zone) which consists of a buffer along streams and identified wet areas (minimum distance of 50 feet from streams). Some felled trees will be removed for use as fish logs where large woody structures are lacking. FONSI finds no environmental impact statement is needed.
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Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area contaminated soil project environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact, and decision record
(2008-06-23) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
The Proposed Action is to remove contaminated soils from an area of approximately 2,600 square feet near the lighthouse. An estimated 72 cubic yards of soil would be excavated with power equipment and placed in temporary storage nearby while laboratory analysis determines the actual lead levels in the excavated soil. Once the lead levels in the excavated soil have been determined the soil will be disposed of at an appropriate landfill. Uncontaminated soil would be brought in to replace the excavated soil, and the site would be re-contoured and revegetated with red fescue. Another approximately 5,800 square feet of the area east of the lighthouse would be treated with phosphate solution to immobilize lead in the soil and reduce leaching and effects on humans and wildlife. This would involve spraying a liquid solution on the soil surface and, where existing vegetation allows, tilling the surface soil to increase distribution of the phosphate solution. Tilling would be accomplished with a small tractor-mounted tiller or walk-behind tiller.
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Maxfield Creek density management project 1 upland habitat restoration final decision and decision rationale
(2008-06) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
The selected action will include prescribed broadcast burning applied to two areas totaling about 280 acres. In preparation for prescribed broadcast burning, brush and nonmerchantable trees will be felled within planned burn areas, where cutting has not previously occurred or there is an additional need due to re-growth. Control lines will consist of Roads #10-5-20.1, 10-5-20, 10-6-14, and Pit Road and handlines constructed along the property boundaries connecting roads. Burning will be conducted in the spring or fall during periods of vegetation dormancy. Prescribed broadcast burning intensity will be sufficient to reduce understory shrub layers, reduce thatch, and improve conditions for the germination and growth of native species.
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Condenser Peak LSR enhancement project 1 final decision and decision rationale
(2008-06) United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
Announces decision to implement proposed action to cut and remove a portion of trees on approximately 275 acres of 50 to 54 year old stands within Late Successional Reserve (LSR) and Riparian Reserve (RR) Land Use Allocations (LUAs). Includes construction of 3800 feet of new road.