Environmental Assessment

IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES CHAPTER 2
Heritage Resources
1. Coordinate with district archeologist to avoid all known cultural resource sites and to locate
treatment unit boundaries away from sites. If located within a treatment unit boundary, include
the site within the boundaries of retention/leave blocks. Coordinate with wildlife. Include a
buffer of at least 30 feet to provide additional protection.
2. Include appropriate protection language in all service and timber sale contracts to protect known
and unknown sites. Include similar language/requirements in project work plans for force
account activities.
3. Coordinate with district archeologist prior to initiation of unit layout and/or force account work to
identify areas with high probability of unknown sites. Such areas may require additional survey
work and/or on-the-ground coordination to identify and avoid known and unknown sites during
layout.
4. Schedule burns to keep soil temperatures below 400 degrees F to protect buried sites from
damage.
Fire/Fuels
1. Follow all state and federal air quality and smoke management laws, regulations, and
requirements.
2. Limit burning and mowing activities to 2.5 percent of the WRHU acres per year.
3. Leave 10 percent of the unit acres untreated in Alternative 2 and 20 percent in Alternative 3.
4. Special Uses: When treating prescribe burn units adjacent to special use permit areas such as
Pine Mountain Observatory, electronic sites, the BPA substation, BPA transmission line corridor,
other utility corridors, or improvements, developments, cultural or historic sites, or other
resources of value, station one or more engines and crews in or adjacent to such sites. Establish
hose lays or other protection/preventive measures to assist in protecting sites during burning
operatings.
Sale Area Improvement Projects
The following projects included in this proposal are proposed sale area improvement projects. They are
proposed in accordance with direction contained in Forest Service Handbook 2409.19, were prioritized by
the interdisciplinary team, and are listed in order of priority.
Sale Area Improvement Projects (Reforestation)
1) Slashing of small trees on planting areas;
2) Site preparation for natural regeneration;
3) Hand or grapple piling of slash;
4) Planting of tree seedlings; and
5) Tubing for animal damage control.
Sale Area Improvement Projects (Non-reforestation)
1) Subsoiling to reduce soil impacts to no more than 20 percent of each unit area;
2) Subsoiling to restore pre-existing skid trails used this entry on slopes greater than 30
percent;
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