Umatilla National Forest, Grant County, Oregon; Farley Analysis Area Vegetation Management Project

Wed, Nov 21 2007 11:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Department Agriculture--Forest Service proposes to conduct vegetation management activities on approximately 167,500 acres of upland forest sites in the Farley Analysis Area to restore sustainable forest conditions in the Desolation Creek watershed. The proposed action will use a range of mechanical harvest and nonharvest thinning and prescribed fire activities to alter species composition, stand structure, and fire regime condition class to recreate conditions that are consistent with the historic range of variably for forests of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon, and to capture the commercial value of forest raw materials for the benefit of local economies.

The Farley Analysis Area encompasses the Desolation Creek watershed which covers 69,672 acres of diverse mountainous, mostly forested landscapes ranging in elevation from 7,765 ft at its headwaters to 2810 ft at its confluence with the North Fork John Day River near Dale, Oregon. It includes both National Forest and pr

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Umatilla National Forest, Grant County, Oregon; Farley Analysis Area Vegetation Management Project