Environmental Assessment Completed

Junction Vegetation Management Project

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

Commercial thinning, small tree thinning, salvage and overstory removal treatments on about 16,000 acres to help improve forest health and resiliency, contribute forest products, and to reduce fuels. About 70% lodgepole pine, 30% ponderosa pine.

Location

North boundary is 4140 and 520 Roads; South boundary is just south of 42 Road; East boundary follows 45-500 and 42; Boundary on west follows 4232 and 45-400

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
08/09/2010
2
Comment Period
08/15/2014
3
Objection Period Start
02/04/2015
4
Decision
06/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
09/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Salvage); Timber Sales (Green)
Junction Vegetation Management Decision NoticeDecision Signed Date: 06/30/2015
ForestsDeschutes National Forest
DistrictsBend/Fort Rock Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT19S, R9E, Sections 25 and 36; T19S, R10E, Sections 28-33; T20S, R9E, Sec 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, 36; T20S, R10E Sec 4-11, 14-23, 27-33.
Fuels managementForest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)