Environmental Impact Statement Completed

Ogden Landscape Vegetation Management Project

Deschutes National Forest Deschutes, Oregon Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District

Proposal includes commercial and precommercial thinning, shrub mowing, and prescribed burning across approx. 14,600 acres of the 26,500-acre project area to reduce tree densities, encourage LOS development, break up fuel continuity; 2 plan amendments

Location

East of Highway 97, South of Forest Road 9735, North of Forest Road 22 ; adjacent to the west of Newberry National Monument

Project timeline

1
NOI in Federal Register
12/31/2009
2
DEIS NOA in Federal Register
07/22/2011
3
FEIS NOA in Federal Register
09/28/2012
4
Decision
09/2012 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
10/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Green)
Ogden Vegetation ManagementDecision Signed Date: 09/14/2012 Legal Notice Date: 09/19/2012
ForestsDeschutes National Forest
DistrictsBend/Fort Rock Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT21S, R11,12E; T22S, R11,12E
Forest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels management