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United States Department of Agriculture

SIUSLAW NATIONAL FOREST 2014 HIGHLIGHTS

RESTORATION

• Completion of the Millwright-Beaver Landscape Management 

Environmental Assessment, which allows for the terrestrial and 

aquatic restoration across the watershed.

• Phase I of the Fivemile-Bell Aquatic restoration project is complete 

and includes 3,000 feet of levee removal up to three feet deep.

• Bull Run Dunes and Beal Lake area restoration efforts removing 

invasive vegetation - in partnership with Save the Riders Dunes and 

Wildearth Guardians.

• Sold 42 MMBF of timber from plantation thinnings. Stewardship 

retained receipts and trust funds were utilized for ecosystem 

restoration on a whole watershed basis.

• Sold $165,000 of special forest products such as mushrooms, 

firewood, and greenery.

• Replaced 4 large culverts (Andy, Bunn, Eckman and Upper Farmer 

Creeks) to restore fish passage to three miles of stream.

RECREATION

• Completed Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Designated 

Routes 10 (c) Final Environmental Impact Statement and Draft 

Record of Decision.

• Received a clean audit of our collections officers on a very large 

and complex fee program on the Central Coast RD-Oregon Dunes 

NRA. 

• Cascade Head Scenic-Research Area View Point and Interpretive 

Site decision signed.

• Field Rangers made 50,000 public contacts this year, creating 

memorable experiences for visitors.

PARTNERSHIPS

• Stewardship program with $1.2 million in retained receipts used to fund projects 

on and off National Forest lands.

• 40th anniversary of designation of Cascade Head Scenic Research Area.

• Initiated an “Artist in Residence” program at Cape Perpetua Visitor Center 

to connect the public to the Forest Service through art. Margie Lopez-Read 

volunteered to interpret Cape Perpetua through her painting and then donated 

the art to raise money to continue the Artist in Residence Program each year. 

• Private landowner donated 169-acre inholding to Siuslaw National Forest.
COMMUNITY

• Siuslaw Resource Advisory Committee—$650,000 in Secure Rural Schools funding for FY14. Put 6.9 million back in to local 

communities in seven rural Oregon counties through current reauthorization

• Wilderness 50th celebration brought together partners with the community of Yachats.

• Sold underutilized Mapleton Administrative Site into private ownership.

• The Siuslaw responded to 156 incidents; of those 14 were Forest Service statistical fires. The Forest also contributed 2,919 

personnel days in firefighting and support for the National and Regional large fire needs.

Invasive species removal on 

the Oregon Dunes by local 

student.

FY 15 GOALS & ASPIRATIONS

RESTORATION

• Continue successful forest-wide restoration program:

• Continue with Fivemile-Bell aquatic restoration work

• South Nestucca, Schooner Rock and Riparian Restoration environmental analyses and Decisions signed in FY15

• Build on existing momentum for Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area restoration

RECREATION

• Sign Record of Decision for Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Designated Routes MA 10 (c)

• Find ways to manage developed recreation facilities working with partners, using cooperative agreements and permits to 

operate campgrounds and facilities we cannot sustain, i.e. Archie Knowles campground and historic Alsea Guard Station

• Invest and improve high-use campgrounds and public facilities with partner support

PARTNERSHIPS

• Dunes restoration through partnership with Save the Riders Dunes and WildEarth Guardians

• Continue to strengthen Forest stewardship groups for whole watershed restoration

• Support all watershed councils developing and implementing projects in or adjacent to the Forest

USDA is an equal opportunity employer. SIU-10-14

Participant of the Artist in 

Residence program at Cape 

Perpetua..

Prescribed burn on the 

Dunes to control 

European beachgrass.

Interpretive sign dedication 

commemorating Mt. Hebo 

Air Force Station