Deschutes National Forest — Project Detail

Rebuild of the Crescent Lake 25 Recreation Residence.

This FANEC documents the decision and rational to authorize recreation residence owners to complete the proposed projects on their residences.

The project proposes post-fire recovery activities within the footprint of the Akawa Butte Fire. The proposed treatments within the Akawa Butte Fire Recovery include commercial salvage, roadside danger tree removal and reforestation.

The Deschutes National Forest is responding to a request for authorization from Gas Transmission Northwest, a special use permit holder, to complete vegetation management within a 50 foot buffer around a compressor station as a fuel break against wildfires.

The Deschutes National Forest is responding to a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) request to grant consent to lease approximately 29,477 acres of nominated National Forest System lands for geothermal exploration and development. This decision is an administrative action only.

The Sisters Ranger District on the Deschutes National Forest is in the pre-NEPA early stages of developing a proposed action for a landscape restoration project, North Basin. The project area, approximately 15,000 acres, is in the Metolius Basin, northwest of the City of Sisters.

The proposed action includes approximately 14,400 acres of thinning (shaded fuels break, commercial and small tree), mowing, and/or prescribed burning. In addition, a well-established user trail within an isolated Forest Service parcel would be added to the Forest Service trail system.

The purpose of this EA is to respond to the application submitted by the City under the Townsite Act. The proposed action would allow for 48 acres to be conveyed to the City at fair market value and would be used to expand its potable water infrastructure.

Proposed fuels maintenance actions including non-fire and prescribed fire treatments on previously treated units on the east side of the forest.

Vegetation management on approximately 18,168 acres to move forest conditions toward historic range of variability and improve forest resilience to disturbance to reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristic large-scale loss of forest habitat.

The MODA Active Management Project proposes dry forest restoration techniques in order to improve and maintain the forested ecosystem of of the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds on the Crescent Ranger District.

Upper Black Butte Swamp is a 34-acre wetland that has incised channels and drying out vegetation. The project would restore the fen through channel filling, planting native vegetation, aspen restoration and invasive weed management.

Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort is proposing to expand the existing deck at Sunrise Lodge, upgrade the power feed to Little Pine Ski Lift to combat power supply issues, and install a generator and associated transformers, junction/sector cabinets, and buried powerlines in the West Village area.

Meissner Nordic Club is proposing to build a second garage to store an additional groomer at an existing storage facility just north of the Virginia Meissner Sno-Park. The site currently has one garage and one metal storage container. The second garage will be placed in the existing site clearing.

This project proposes vegetation management actions on 14,830 acres within previously managed stands on the eastside of the Crescent Ranger District.