Environmental Assessment Completed

Lower Sheep Timber Sale and Fire Reintroduction Project (2005)

Umatilla National Forest Wallowa, Oregon Walla Walla Ranger District

Lower elevation Forest along the breaks to the Grande Ronde river would utilize prescribed fire and timber harvest to restore ponderosa pine and western larch forest and grasslands and brush along the canyon walls.

Location

Fry Meadows area

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
03/10/2003
2
Comment Period
04/18/2005
3
Decision
07/2005 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
10/2005 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Road Maintenance; Road Improvements/Construction; Watershed Improvements
Lower Sheep Timber Sale and Fire Reintroduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/08/2005 Legal Notice Date: 07/11/2005
ForestsUmatilla National Forest
DistrictsWalla Walla Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT. 4N., R. 40E., T. 4N., R39E., Sec. 1, 12, 13, 24, 25; T. 4N., R.,41E., Sec. 7, 18, 30, 31; T.5N., R.40E., Sec. 31, 32, 33, 28, 29
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsFuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)Road managementForest productsWatershed management