Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest — Project Detail

The Yellowjacket Project aims to reduce hazardous fuels, and foster a more fire, insect, and disease resilient forest. This project will help to protect vulnerable communities from catastrophic wildfires by tying into past treatments.

Replacement of the North Fork Bridge that was burned in the Smith River complex fire.

The District is proposing a vegetation and watershed restoration project in collaboration with the Medford Watershed Commission to support fire resiliency and forest health in spring-fed water supply of the Big Butte Springs Municipal Watershed.

Treatments will reduce fuels and protect large residual trees by manually cutting brush and select live trees eight-inch DBH and under, ten-inch DBH and under of dead trees, hand piling, and pile burning within the project footprint.

The project will fell and remove hazard trees and reduce fuel loading in critical linear fuel management zones, perform site preparation for reforestation and plant site appropriate conifer seedlings.

To replace two lifts Areil and Windsor,which are aging lifts that are no longer repairable. Replacing the two lifts will increase safety and reliability, increase operational efficiency and inprove winter-sport infrastructure.

Installation of a freestanding radio building to store radio equipment. Repair/replacement of Radio tower that was damaged during storms during the winter. Move and install ODF solar panels South of the Dutchman Lookout living quarters.

Virtual fencing applies a new technology to keep cattle in authorized range allotment boundaries and outside sensitive or protected resource features such as streams. The proposed project is to introduce and use virtual fencing technology.

. The project would establish and maintain fuel breaks along the 25 Road that tie together recent Upper Briggs project (signed in 2019) area treatments to the old Taylor-Klondike Fire control lines and Rum Creek Fire contingency lines

Proposed action is to repair the 22 ERFO sites within the current road prism to restore traffic to the roadway.

Crown Castle (Agent for AT&T) is proposing to replace 80 foot existing self-support tower with a 150 foot self-support tower to provide elevation and space for equipment for 4 wireless communication providers and other users requesting collocation.