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Item Open Access Diamond Peak thin decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2006-11-13) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of the project EA (with the exception of Unit 8), to thin commercially 347 acres of young managed conifer stands in the vicinity of Deadwood Mountain and Pea Ridge, to realign and decommission roads, and construct a temporary road.Item Open Access Five Rivers landscape management project final environmental impact statement(2002-04-11) Waldport Ranger District (Or.)Proposes to restore terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the Five Rivers watershed, including designating 12 management study areas as part of a learning design; commercial thinning older plantations; reopening some temporary and system roads, building temporary roads, and closing and decommissioning system roads; precommercial thinning of younger plantations; planting shade-tolerant conifer and various hardwood trees in riparian areas; maintaining existing meadows and plantations in early-seral conditions; and issuing a special-use permit for building and maintaining a private road.Item Open Access Five Rivers landscape management project record of decision(2003-05) South Zone Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement all the terrestrial and aquatic restoration actions described under Alternative 1 of the project FEIS that are connected with commercial thinning and associated actions.Item Open Access Gauldy project decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2004-02-10) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 (private land access) of the project EA, commercially thinning 854 acres in 30 to 45 year-old managed conifer stands, thinning 100 acres in riparian areas occupied by young, dense conifer stands for the purpose of growing larger trees and closing and decommissioning approximately 60 miles of Forest and temporary roads.Item Open Access Gauldy project environmental assessment(2004-02) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Proposes to improve watershed conditions and habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species by commercially thinning 854 acres in 30 to 45 year-old managed conifer stands, thinning 100 acres in riparian areas occupied by young, dense conifer stands for the purpose of growing larger trees, and closing and decommissioning approximately 60 miles of Forest and temporary roads.Item Open Access Griz thin decision memo(2008-09-19) Siuslaw National Forest (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision to enhance the development of late successional habitat and improve habitat diversity by: 1. Commercially thinning about 66 acres of stand 507089; 2. Creating stand diversity by applying a mixture of thinning regimes in the stand and under planting about 43 acres; 3. Increasing structural diversity by falling and leaving about 330 trees as coarse wood and creating about 396 snags in the stand; 4. Creating a 3/4 acre meadow at the end of the existing temporary road; and 5. Adding about 50 pieces of large wood by hand to the largest stream adjacent to the unit.Item Open Access Little Nestucca restoration project decision notice(2007-05) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 2 of the project EA, to thin commercially 2,638 acres of 30 to 63 year-old young managed conifer stands, as well as approximately 210 acres of 90 to 95 year-old off-site Douglas fir stands. Also includes decommissioning 7 miles of roads, closing some non-key roads, constructing 2 miles of new temporary roads, and reopening about 10 miles of existing temporary roads.Item Open Access Little Nestucca thin environmental assessment(2007-01) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Proposes to thin commercially 2,638 acres of 30 to 63 year-old young managed conifer stands, as well as approximately 210 acres of 90 to 95 year-old off-site Douglas fir stands. Also includes decommissioning 7 miles of roads, closing some non-key roads, and constructing 2 miles of new temporary roads and reopen about 10 miles of existing temporary roads.Item Open Access Lobster landscape management project decision notice(2006-09) Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 2, to speed the development of late-successional habitat in late-successional and riparian reserves; maintain and create grass, forb, and shrub, and shrub habitats; improve watershed function; repair and maintain key forest roads; and produce timber and meet late-successional objectives on matrix land.Item Open Access Lobster landscape management project environmental assessment(2006-09) Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)Proposes a package of associated terrestrial and watershed restoration actions, including commercially thinning about 3,003 acres to speed the development of late-successional habitat in plantations now 20 to 58 years-old, improve existing diversity in plantations, non-commercially thinning about 212 acres of plantations generally less than 20 years-old to speed their development, decommissioning about 5 miles of roads and closing about 47 miles of roads to help restore watershed health, and repairing and maintaining about 18 miles of key forest roads and about 42 miles of non-key forest roads.Item Open Access Siuslaw thinning and underplanting for diversity -- Phase II decision notice(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.Item Open Access Siuslaw thinning and underplanting for diversity study -- Phase II environmental assessment(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.Item Open Access West Alsea landscape management plan environmental assessment(2008-02) Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)Proposes a package of associated terrestrial and watershed restoration actions, including commercially thinning and creating dead wood and openings in plantations 20 to 58 years-old, non-commercially thinning plantations generally less than 20 years-old, creating and maintaining meadows, decommissioning or closing roads, repairing and maintaining key and non-key forest roads, adding large wood to streams, and planting conifers and hardwoods in riparian areas.Item Open Access Windjammer project decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2005-04-14) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Proposes to thin commercially 962 acres of 30-48 year-old young managed conifer stands, creating snags to grow larger trees, underplanting shade tolerant species, and constructing temporary roads and reopening others within the Drift Creek Tier I Key Watershed and the South Fork Schooner Creek Non-Key Watershed.Item Open Access Windjammer project environmental assessment(2005-04) Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)Proposes to thin commercially 962 acres of 30-48 year-old young managed conifer stands, creating snags to grow larger trees, underplanting shade tolerant species, and constructing temporary roads and reopening others within the Drift Creek Tier I Key Watershed and the South Fork Schooner Creek Non-Key Watershed.Item Open Access Yachats terrestrial restoration project decision notice and finding of no significant impact(2005-02) South Zone Ranger District (Or.)Announces decision to implement Alternative 5 (maintain and repair key forest roads) of the project EA. Includes commercially thinning about 2,039 acres to speed the development of late-successional habitat in plantations now 25 to 50 years-old, non-commercially thinning about 2,381 acres to speed the development of other (generally younger) plantations, decommissioning about 8.5 miles of road to help restore watershed health, and performing maintenance on 38.4 miles of key Forest roads.Item Open Access Yachats terrestrial restoration project environmental assessment(2005-03-14) South Zone Ranger District (Or.)Proposes package of associated terrestrial and watershed restoration actions, and key forest road maintenance activities. Includes commercially thinning about 2,039 acres to speed the development of late-successional habitat in plantations now 25 to 50 years-old, non-comercially thinning about 2,381 acres to speed the development of other (generally younger) plantations, decommissioning about 8.5 miles of road to help restore watershed health, and performing maintenance on 38.4 miles of key Forest roads.