Klamath Falls 

Resource Area 

Planning Update 

Spring 2009 

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Klamath Falls Resource Area

BLM 
As the Nation’s principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has responsibility for most of our nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This 

includes fostering the wisest use of our land and water resources, protecting our fi sh 

and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of our national parks and 

historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. 

The Department assesses our energy and mineral resources and works to assure that 

their development is in the best interest of all our people. The Department also has a 

major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who 

live in Island Territories under U.S. administration. 

BLM/OR/WA/PL-09/030+1792 

Cover Photograph: Cattle grazing near Adobe Reservoir (fi le photo) 
United States Department of the Interior 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 

Klamath Falls Resource Area 

2795 Anderson Avenue, Building 25 

Klamath Falls, Oregon 97603-7891 

Phone: (541) 883-6916 | Fax: (541) 884-2097 

E-Mail Address: Username@or.blm.gov 

IN REPLY REFER TO: 

1614(014) 

KLAMATH FALLS RESOURCE AREA PLANNING UPDATE 

Spring 2009
 

Planning Update General Information – This Planning Update provides information about activities 

proposed on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Klamath Falls Resource Area. The table included 

provides the location and brief description of most activities proposed within the Resource Area. (Refer to the 

map following the table.) Additional information can be obtained from the contact person listed in the project 

descriptions or the Resource Area Planner. As certain projects reach stages for public involvement, news 

releases and public notices may be published in the Herald and News. 

The New Klamath Falls Resource Area Resource Management Plan – The Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (FEIS) for the Revision of the Resource Management Plans (RMPs) of the Western Oregon Bureau 

of Land Management was released on October 9, 2008. A copy of the FEIS is available online at: 

http://www.blm.gov/or/index.php. After a protest period and review of protests received, six Records of 

Decision to implement six new RMPs specific to each westside district were signed on December 30, 2008. 

Electronic copies of the Klamath Falls Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan are available 

online at: http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/lakeview/plans/lakeviewrmp.php. These documents are also 

available in printed format or on CD. 

Forestry Categorical Exclusions - Certain activities within the BLM’s forestry program have been 

categorically excluded from preparation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) or Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). The purpose of a categorical exclusion is to eliminate the need for unnecessary paperwork 

under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Specifically, Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations for NEPA at 40 CFR §1508.4 state that: 

"’Categorical exclusion’ means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have 

a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in 

procedures adopted by a Federal agency in implementation of these regulations (Sec. 1507.3) and for 

which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is 

required...Any procedures under this section shall provide for extraordinary circumstances in which a 

normally excluded action may have a significant environmental effect.” 

In implementation of the NEPA regulations, the BLM has developed categorical exclusions for certain forest 

silvicultural activities, such as reforestation, pre-commercial treatments, brush control, sample tree falling, 

and salvage, commercial thinning, and hazardous fuels reduction of limited acres. In developing categorical 

exclusions, the BLM demonstrated through rulemaking procedures how these actions do not typically result in 

significant environmental effects and set forth the methodology and criteria used to define the categories of 

actions. These rulemaking procedures included extensive public involvement and input, and CEQ review, 

regarding appropriate limits on the use of the categorical exclusion to assure that any categorically excluded 

action would remain within the effects of actions covered in the analysis for the rulemaking. 
As such, in deciding whether to proceed with such actions, the BLM will review their particular conditions to 

ensure that no extraordinary circumstances exist, as listed in the Department of the Interior’s NEPA Manual at 

516 DM 2, Appendix 2 that would preclude the use of a categorical exclusion. The Klamath Falls Field Office 

maintains an on-site NEPA register that lists ongoing actions, and seeks information from the public as to 

whether extraordinary circumstances exist for any of these ongoing actions that are categorically excluded. An 

“extraordinary” circumstance is one that could have significant environmental effects beyond the “ordinary” 

circumstances already described and considered as applicable to the excluded actions in the rulemaking 

procedure. These categorically excluded actions, by regulation, do not require the documentation necessary 

for an EA or EIS. The public was also provided a formal opportunity to participate in the agency’s review and 

approval of these categorically excluded activities. Given this context, the BLM may choose to proceed with 

these actions as part of the ordinary course of business in managing forest land with the posting of a notice of 

decision on the District internet site. This notice would advise the public of the formal administrative review 

process for these individual actions available under 43 CFR §4.450. Depending on circumstances, however, 

the BLM may invoke, by publishing a notice in a local newspaper of record, the administrative review process 

under 43 CFR §5003 for certain individual forest management actions. 

If you have any questions on this update or recommendations for improvement, please notify us in person or 

call (541) 883-6916. The information contained in this Planning Update is also available on our website at: 

http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/lakeview/plans/ . In order to reduce printing costs, please contact us if you 

wish to be removed from the mailing list. 

Sincerely, 

/s/ Donald J. Holmstrom 

Manager, Klamath Falls Resource Area 
SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED PROJECTS 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT * KLAMATH FALLS RESOURCE AREA * 2795 ANDERSON AVENUE, BLDG. #25 * KLAMATH FA

PHONE NUMBER: (541) 883-6916 

PROJECT TITLE & DESCRIPTION LOCATION MAP STATUS OF ANALYSIS PRO

REF. # ANALYSIS COMPLETION IMPLEM

CX = Categorical Exclusion, DNA = Determination of NEPA Adequacy, EA = Environmental Assessment, EIS = Environmental Impact Statement, D

Timber Management – New Projects 

Cold Onion Forest Health Treatments EA – for the Cold Creek and Onion Springs timber sales in Jenny Creek Watershed 

T38S., R.5E., Sec. 33, 34 

T.39S., R.6E., Sec. 2,11-13 #26 

EA completed. 

Public comment 

ends 4/3/09 

Spring 2009 

Proposed 

Cold Creek

Onion Spri

Adobe West Timber Sale DR to the South Gerber Forest Health Treatments EA (#OR-014-04-06) 

T41S, R141⁄2E, Sec. 14-16, 

21-23 #10 DR in progress Summer 2009 FY 

Gerber Stew Stewardship Contract – New Projects 

2008 Juniper Yarding / Utilization EA – This EA analyzes the utilization of previously cut juniper on units totaling approximately 2,300 acres 

Various locations None 

EA completed. 

Public comment 

ends 4/3/09 

Spring 2009 FY 

2009 Juniper Disposal EA - This EA analyzes the utilization of previously cut juniper on units totaling approximately 3,000 acres. Various locations None EA in progress FY 2009 FY 

Wildlife Management – New Projects 

Dog Hollow/Lower Midway Waterspreader Vegetation Treatment 

T40S, R14E, Sec 12,13,24 

T40S, R14.5E, Sec 7, 16­

20, 28-30 

#35 CX in progress FY 2009 FY 

Range Management – New Projects 

North Horsefly Allotment Fence North Horsefly Allotment #27 EA in progress FY 2009 FY 

Prescribed Burning and Fuels Treatment – New Projects 

Bly Mountain Fuels Reduction and Range Improvement Bly Mountain #27 EA in progress FY 2009 FY 

Recreation – New Projects 

Klamath River Raft Race Upper Klamath River #46 CX in progress FY 2009 FY 

Swan Lake Rim Trail Construction Swan Lake Rim #7 EA in progress FY 2009 FY 

Hydrology/Fisheries – New Projects 

Wood River Channel Restoration EA Wood River Wetland #8 EA in progress FY 2009 FY Pitchlog Crossing Stream Restoration EA – Installation of 3 flood culverts to reclaim original floodplain and repair incised channel 

T39S,R14E, Sec. 25 #6 EA in progress FY 2009 FY 

Placement of Large Wood in Spencer Creek – Decision Record #2 to EA #OR-014-04-08 for helicopter portion of proposed action Spencer Creek #9 Design and DR in progress FY 2009 FY 

Wood River Canal Water Control Structure – Oregon spotted frog habitat enhancement Wood River Wetland #8 CX in progress FY 2009 FY 

Klamath Falls Resource Area, Spring 2009 Planning Update - Page 3 
SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED PROJECTS 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT * KLAMATH FALLS RESOURCE AREA * 2795 ANDERSON AVENUE, BLDG. #25 * KLAMATH FA

PHONE NUMBER: (541) 883-6916 

PROJECT TITLE & DESCRIPTION LOCATION MAP STATUS OF ANALYSIS PRO

REF. # ANALYSIS COMPLETION IMPLEM

Interdisciplinary – Landscape Level Analysis 

RMP Revision – As per the final settlement agreement to the American Forest Resource Council vs. BLM litigation, the BLM is directed to revise RMPs in western Oregon by December 2008. 

Resource Area Wide None ROD signed 12/30/08. FEIS released 10/9/08. FY 

Spencer Creek Landscape Analysis – Analysis of several proposed treatments (roads, vegetation, prescribed burning, etc.). 

Spencer Creek 5th Field 

Watershed None 

Initial scoping 

complete. EA in 

progress 

FY 2009 200

Inventory 

Off-highway Vehicle (OHV) Route Designation Resource Area Wide None completed. EA in FY 2012 FY 

progress 

Klamath Falls Resource Area, Spring 2009 Planning Update - Page 4 
SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED PROJECTS 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT * KLAMATH FALLS RESOURCE AREA * 2795 ANDERSON AVENUE, BLDG. #25 * KLAMATH FA

PHONE NUMBER: (541) 883-6916 

PROJECT TITLE & DESCRIPTION LOCATION MAP SPECIAL AREAS STATUS OF ANALYSIS COM

REF. # AFFECTED D

Rangeland Health Standards Assessments – in progress 

These assessments compare the monitoring information collected against the five Standards for Rangeland Health and propose management changes if current grazi

Standards, or not making significant improvement towards meeting them. Changes are implemented through the grazing decision or agreement p

Haught Allotment (#0801) Buck Butte #43 None Known Assessment in Progress F

Mills Creek Allotment (#0865) East of Malin #36 None Known Assessment in Progress F

Bryant-Lyon Allotment (#0840) East of Malin #36 None Known Assessment in Progress F

Rajnus Bros. Allotment (#0849) Southeast of Klamath Falls #29 None Known Assessment in progress F

Barnwell Allotment (#0807) East of Klamath Falls #2 None Known Assessment in progress FHorton Allotment (#0829) East of Klamath Falls #4 None Known Assessment in progress FKetcham Allotment (#0835) East of Klamath Falls #5 None Known Assessment in progress F

Windy Ridge Allotment (#0838) East of Klamath Falls #5 None Known Assessment in progress FMarshall Allotment (#0841) East of Klamath Falls #1 None Known Assessment in progress FWilkinson Allotment (#0850) East of Klamath Falls #3 None Known Assessment in progress F

Rangeland Health Standards Assessments – completed in FY 2009 

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT * KLAMATH FALLS RESOURCE AREA * 2795 ANDERSON AVENUE, BLDG. #25 * KLAMATH FA

PHONE NUMBER: (541) 883-6916 

Yearly Scheduled Events - 2009 

Event/Activity Date Location Contact(s) # of Participants 

Wilderness & Horse Packing Clinic May 1-3 Klamath County Fairgrounds Scott Senter 

International Migratory Bird Day May 9 Veteran’s Memorial Park Steve Hayner 

RAP Camp June 15-19 Camp Esther Applegate Scott Senter 

Klamath County Fair August 6-9 Klamath County Fairgrounds Scott Senter 

Sixth Grade Forestry Tour September 22-24 Clover Creek Educational Area Madeline Campbell 

National Public Lands Day September 26 Topsy Campground Scott Senter 

*Numbers of public participants for large events are estimates. 

Klamath Falls Resource Area, Spring 2009 Planning Update - Page 5 
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4 0 4 8 Miles individual or aggregate use with other data. Original data were 

compiled from various sources. This information may not meet T 4 0 4 8 Kilometers National Map Accuracy Standards. This product was developed 35 through digital means and may be updated without notification. 

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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
 

Klamath Falls Resource Area
 

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Klamath Falls, Oregon 97603-7891
 

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