North Steens ecosystem restoration project
Subtitle: record of decision
By: Bureau of Land Management, Burns District Office
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Burns District Office
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Hines, Oregon]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Restoration ecology; Vegetation management; Prescribed burning; Junipers; Control; Public lands; Management; Environmental aspects; United States; Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000 (United States)
Other titles: North Steens ecosystem :
Description: The North Steens Ecosystem Restoration Project (North Steens Project or Project) is a landscape-level project, the goal of which is to reduce juniper related fuel loading and improve the ecological health of the area by encouraging a healthy functioning ecosystem through appropriate land treatments. Treatment techniques will include a combination of prescribed fire, juniper treatments, fencing, seeding, and planting to reduce fuel loads, restore vegetative communities, improve habitat and increase forage. Both wildlife and domestic livestock operations will ultimately benefit. The project will include implementation of management actions across the Project Area directing plant communities toward a desirable condition through return of the historic fire regime. Actions will center on lessening effects of potential severe wildfires by reducing fuels and curtailing juniper expansion in mountain big sagebrush, low sagebrush, quaking aspen, mountain mahogany, old-growth juniper, riparian plant communities, and limited acres of Wyoming big sagebrush. This is a multiyear project potentially taking place over decades and each year the extent of implementation will differ depending on variables such as staff limitations, resource considerations and climatic and operational conditions.
Notes: "September 2007."

Unpublished document[?]; introductory letter is undated and unsigned; Manager's Recommendation section is unsigned, dated September 26, 2007; District Manager Approval section is unsigned, dated September 26, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-43).