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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 01/01/2011 to 03/31/2011 - Malheur National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)01/01/2011 to 03/31/2011Malheur National Forest This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
- Recreation management - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 10/26/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 03/2011 Expected:07/2011 09/2011 Richard Vetter541-573-4369rvetter@fs.fed.us Description: Implement the Travel Management Rule (prohibiting motorized travel off of existing designated routes where it is not currently prohibited) and continue to provide motorized access for dispersed camping.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) On Hold N/A N/A Carole Holly541-575-3026cholly@fs.fed.us Description: Treatment of known and newly discovered invasive plants using herbicide, manual, mechanical, biological, and/or cultural methods. Location: UNIT - Malheur National Forest All Units. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Baker, Crook, Grant, Harney, Malheur. LEGAL - Forest wide. Forest wide.
University of Florida: Idaho-Oregon Passive Seismic Survey 2011-2013CE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 11/22/2010 05/2011 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Eight seismic stations will be temporarily installed on the Malheur National Forest to record natural earthquake activity. The instruments will help to delineate the current geometry of the major geologic units of the Western Idaho Shear Zone.
Location: UNIT - Malheur National Forest All Units. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - Blue Mountain, Emigrant Creek, and Prairie City Ranger Districts. Malheur National Forest.
Campground Tent Pad MaintenanceCE
- Recreation management Cancelled N/A N/A Ryan Falk541-820-3890rfalk@fs.fed.us Description: Leveling and gravel surfacing of existing tent pad areas in Parish Cabin, Trout Farm, and Magone Campgrounds.
Location: UNIT - Blue Mountain Ranger District, Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T14S R34E, section 31; T32S R12E, section 6; and T16S R33E, section 16. Trout Farm, Magone, and Parish Cabin Campgrounds.
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 10/26/2009 Expected:10/2011 10/2011 Shannon Winegar541-820-3863swinegar@fs.fed.us Description: Issuance of a special use permit to authorize outfitter guiding and camps for big game hunting of big horn sheep, muzzleloading, and rifle elk.
- Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 08/31/2010Est. Objection Period Legal Notice 01/2011 Expected:04/2011 05/2011 Daniel Hubbard530-279-8330dhubbard02@fs.fed.us Description: Approximately 20,000 acres of thinning in timber stands to reduce fire hazard, insect and disease risk, improve old growth, identify / plan biomass stands, restore riparian aspen, restore mountain mahogany, and maintain wildlife habitat. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=28992
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:Scoping Start 07/22/2009 Expected:02/2011 06/2011 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Close abandoned mine hazards by filling in adits/trenches/shafts with earth and rock from existing mine spoil piles; and recontour slopes adjacent to work area. If bats are present, a bat gate structure may be installed rather than an earthen plug.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Grazing management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2011 Expected:03/2011 03/2011 Kelly Ware541-575-3432kware@fs.fed.us Description: Erect fencing to enhance management of rangeland and riparian resources. The fencing would be located on allotments: Camp Creek, Jack Creek, Murderers Creek, Mt. Vernon, Indain Ridge, Dixie, Lower Middle Fork, and Upper Middle Fork.
- Road management On Hold N/A N/A Jessi James541-575-3130jjames@fs.fed.us Description: Decommission 83 miles of road in the Camp Creek Watershed.
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:Scoping Start 11/19/2009 Expected:02/2011 06/2011 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Close the Upper Lemon Cabin abandoned mine adit and remove the deteriorated Granite Boulder Cr. Bridge in order to protect public health and safety. The adit would be closed either by plugging the adit with earth or installation of a bat gate. Location: UNIT - Blue Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T. 10 N., R. 34 E., SW 1/4 Sec. 14 (adit) and T. 10 S., R. 34 E., NE1/4 Sec. 22 (bridge). Granite Boulder Creek area along FDR 4559 on the Blue Mt. Ranger District.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2011 Expected:04/2011 07/2011 Lori Stokes541-575-3331lstokes@fs.fed.us Description: Cutting of conifers that are overtopping and shading out aspen, treating the created slash, and fencing the aspen stands.
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:NOI in Federal Register 03/12/2009Est. DEIS NOA in Federal Register 01/2011 Expected:04/2011 08/2011 Eric Wunz541-575-3000ewunz@fs.fed.us Description: Reducing fire hazard and improving forest health at the landscape level.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Grazing management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2011 Expected:05/2011 05/2011 Robbie Piehl907-789-6223robbiepiehl@fs.fed.us Description: Remove post-settlement juniper to improve big game winter range, increase late season stream flow, and reduce competition between wild horses, cattle, and wildlife. Location: UNIT - Blue Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. Located in the Bark Cabin and Lower Deer Creek subwatersheds.
- Grazing management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:09/2011 06/2012 Nick Stiner541-575-3496nstiner@fs.fed.us Description: Analyzes cattle grazing authorizations on six existing allotments for Donaldson, Deer, Hamilton, King, Indian Ridge, Highway allotments
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2011 Expected:04/2011 06/2011 Amanda Lindsay541-575-3333alindsay@fs.fed.us Description: Precommercial thinning plantations to improve tree growth and vigor, and fuels treatment to reduce fire hazard. Location: UNIT - Blue Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T09S R31-32E; T10S R28-32E; and T11S R30-32E. Plantations are located west of Grant County Road 18 to HWY 395, Plantations are located west of Grant County Road 18 to HWY 395 in the Slide and Long Crk drainages and Long Creek Mountain area.
Renewal of Spring Development Special Use Permit on Tributary of Jungle CreekCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 11/18/2010 12/2010 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Renewal of a Special Use Permit for maintenance and operation of an existing spring development.
Location: UNIT - Blue Mountain Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - SW1/4NE1/4, Sec. 14, T 10 S., R32 E. Tributary to Jungle Creek.
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 09/15/2010 Expected:03/2011 04/2011 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Renewal of special use permits for operation and maintenance of an existing domestic spring development, and maintaining a fenced enclosure area adjacent to private home (to prevent livestock from entering yard area).
- Forest products - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2011 Expected:06/2011 06/2011 Lori Stokes541-575-3331lstokes@fs.fed.us Description: The project area will be treated to reduce fuel loading and improve forest health. This project area is within the Grant County Community Fire Protection Plan.
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 04/06/2010 Expected:01/2011 08/2011 Pamela Uebler541-575-3462puebler@fs.fed.us Description: Small seismometers will be placed along Hwy. 26 from Prairie City to Unity to record seismic vibrations produced from shot hole blasts detonated on private lands. The seismometers will help to image the subsurface geology of eastern Oregon.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:05/2011 07/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Thin approximately 47 acres of juniper trees from riparian zones along Bear Creek. Some of the juniper may be placed into the stream channel to protect and rebuild vulnerable stream banks.
Copper Creek Culvert Replacement ProjectCE
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Watershed management - Road management Completed Actual: 10/07/2010 10/2010 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Replace an existing culvert that blocks fish passage on Forest Road 4170. Location: UNIT - Emigrant Creek Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Harney. LEGAL - T19S, R25E, section 13. Forest Road 4170 at Copper Creek.
- Forest products - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 12/16/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2011 Expected:05/2011 07/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Timber harvest and road closures
- Forest products - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:06/2011 06/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Salvage less than 250 acres of trees weaken by the 2007 Grapple Fire and killed by beetles.
- Grazing management In Progress:Scoping Start 04/21/2010 Expected:04/2011 06/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Reconstruct up to 1.25 miles of 4-stand barbed wire fence with T-posts and wood stays to realign an existing Forest Boundary fence and bring it back on line with the surveyed boundary. Location: UNIT - Emigrant Creek Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Harney. LEGAL - T18S, R27E, section 18. Key-Izee Area.
- Grazing management In Progress:Scoping Start 04/21/2010 Expected:04/2011 06/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Realignment of a portion of the southern allotment boundary fence to bring on line with forest boundary. Construct a 4-wire barbed fence segments to control livestock entering the lower pine creek canyon.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:05/2011 07/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Thin approximately 90 acres of juniper trees from riparian zones along the South Fork of the John Day River. Some of the juniper may be placed into the stream channel to protect and rebuild vulnerable stream banks. Location: UNIT - Emigrant Creek Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Harney. LEGAL - T19S, R28 E sections 13 and 24; and T19S, R29E sections 6, 7, 18. South Fork of the John Day River, and some associated unnamed tributaries.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 02/2011 Expected:04/2011 06/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Thin approximately 77 acres of juniper trees from riparian zones along Venator Creek. Some of the juniper may be placed into the stream channel to protect and rebuild vulnerable stream banks.
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 03/2011 Expected:05/2011 06/2011 Lori Bailey541-573-4300labailey@fs.fed.us Description: Juniper management. Juniper cutting, juniper slash removal through firewood cutting and/or piling and burning, and underburning.
Black Canyon Lodgepole Salvage and SanitationCE
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Road management Cancelled N/A N/A William Brendecke541-820-3840wbrendecke@fs.fed.us Description: Cutting and removal of dead and dying lodgepole for post and pole, firewood, and biomass material. Cutting of danger trees along Forest Roads 1647, 1647446, 1647441, and 1450448. Location: UNIT - Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T17S 34E sections 2-4, 9-11. Project area is approximately 247 acres located within the Cliff Creek subwatershed.
Deardorff Water Source ProjectCE
- Grazing management Completed Actual: 09/24/2010 10/2010 Shannon Britt(541) 820-3865sbritt@fs.fed.us Description: Recondition three spring developments in the Deardorff Allotment. The existing sources would be reconditioned by replacing head boxes, pipelines, and water troughs. Location: UNIT - Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T.14S., R.35E., Section 3. Deardorff Creek drainage.
North Fork Lodgepole Salvage and SanitationCE
- Forest products - Road management Completed Actual: 10/16/2010 10/2010 William Brendecke541-820-3840wbrendecke@fs.fed.us Description: Salvage of trees killed by bark beetles for personal firewood use. Location: UNIT - Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T14S R351/2E sections 3, 10, 15. Project area is approximately 100 acres located in the Swamp Creek subwatershed. North of the Short Creek Guard Station along Forest Road 13.
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2011 Expected:08/2011 10/2011 William Brendecke541-820-3840wbrendecke@fs.fed.us Description: Precommercial thinning plantations to improve tree growth and vigor. Fuel treatments are proposed to reduce fire hazard, including use of equipment to remove biomass material.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants In Progress:Scoping Start 10/01/2010 Expected:01/2011 10/2011 William Wall928-339-4384wwall@fs.fed.us Description: Planting of hardwood cuttings along approximately 1.2 miles of Lake Creek and 2.5 miles of Big Creek to restore shade and cover.
- Grazing management In Progress:Scoping Start 10/07/2008Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/2011 Expected:06/2011 07/2011 Susan Burton541-575-3849sburton@fs.fed.us Description: Analyzes of cattle grazing authorizations on four existing allotments.
Summit Prairie Lodgepole Salvage SanitationCE
- Forest products - Road management Completed Actual: 10/16/2010 10/2010 William Brendecke541-820-3840wbrendecke@fs.fed.us Description: Salvage of bark beetle killed trees for personal firewood use along Forest Road 16 and nearby travel routes.
Location: UNIT - Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T16S R34E, sections 10, 11, 14. The approximately 250 acre project area is located south and east of Prairie City within the Summit Creek subwatershed.
Wickiup Springs and Skookum Springs Fence and Spring Source ProjectCE
- Grazing management Completed Actual: 09/24/2010 10/2010 Shannon Britt(541) 820-3865sbritt@fs.fed.us Description: Rebuild buck and pole fence at Wickiup Springs and Skookum Springs. Develop water source at Wickup Springs and relocate existing water trough at Skookum Springs.
Location: UNIT - Prairie City Ranger District. STATE - Oregon. COUNTY - Grant. LEGAL - T. 16S., R34E., Section 33 and T.17S., R34E., Section 35. Wickiup Springs and Skookum Springs.