Oregon - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • McMeadow Restoration, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The McMeadow project will use prescribed fire and thinning to reduce fuels, improve wildlife habitat, and protect water quality. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Dark Meadow, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Dark Meadow project is designed to re-introduce fire, improve wildlife habitat, reduce fuels, and improve water quality. This project will treat approximately 1,042 acres.
  • Dry Stewardship Project, Ochoco National Forest
    The Dry Stewardship project is designed to decrease forest susceptibility to stand replacement fires and large-scale insect and disease mortality. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Jim's Creek Savannah Restoration, Willamette National Forest
    The Jim's Creek project's objective is to restore a ponderosa pine/ Oregon white oak/ Douglas fir savannah. This project will treat approximately 220 acres.
  • Cloak Stewardship Project, Mt Hood National Forest
    The Cloak project is designed to enhance stand and habitat diversity. This project will treat approximately 3,790 acres.
  • Little Rock Creek, Umpqua National Forest
    This project will conduct approximately 35 acres of aquatic and upland restoration along Little Rock Creek.
  • South Aspen, Ochoco National Forest
    The South Aspen project is designed to restore aspen stands and improve wildlife habitat. An agreement was entered in FY 2005 to accomplish this project.
  • Walker Thin, Siuslaw National Forest
    The Walker Thin project's objectives are to restore watershed function, restore terrestrial conditions, and encourage late successional characteristics. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Bull Stewardship Project, Freemont-Winema National Forest
    The Bull Stewardship project is designed to reduce fuel levels and improve water quality consistent with healthy forest and watershed conditions. This project will treat approximately 2,100 acres.
  • Sportsman Park Stewardship Project, Mt Hood National Forest
    The Sportsman Park project is designed to reduce ladder fuels and fire intensity in the wildland urban interface. This project will treat approximately 1,810 acres.
  • Sagebrush Habitat Improvement, Ochoco National Forest
    The objectives of the Sagebrush project are to improve wildlife habitat, restore sagebrush-steppe habitat, and improve water flow through drainages.
  • Sanger Vegetation Management, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Sanger project is designed to create sustainable, resilient ecological conditions in a warm-dry forest while improving watershed resources and wildlife habitat. This project will treat approximately 3,468 acres.
  • TSI/Christmas Products Stewardship Project, Umpqua National Forest
    This 60-100 acre project seeks to reduce the risk of white pine blister rust and reduce wildfire risk.
  • Mt. Emily Fuels Reduction Project, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Mt. Emily Fuels Reduction Project will reduce fuels to alter potential fire behavior on land adjacent to private and state ownerships within the Wildland-urban interface area.
  • Spooner Vegetation and Road Management Stewardship Project, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Spooner Vegetation and Road Management Stewardship Project will 1) conduct vegetative treatments in order to reduce fuels, restore aspen stands, 2) close and decommission roads to enhance wildlife habitat and improve watershed function, and 3) improve soil function. The contract was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Sprinkle Restoration Project, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Sprinkle project is designed to improve forest health and decrease the risk of insect/wildlife threats through improvements in forest stand structure and reintroduction of fire. A contract was awarded in FY 2003.
  • Buck Vegetation Management Project, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The Buck Vegetation project will increase late-successional forest species and old growth structure within the project area. The project also seeks to improve species compositions, decrease existing fuel loads, improve existing transportation networks, and provide a variety of forest products. A contract was awarded in FY 2002 and the project is now complete.
  • Baker City Watershed, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
    The goal of the Baker City Watershed project was to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire and improve the overall health of existing forest through fuel reductions, introduction of prescribed fire, and the creation of fire breaks. A contract was awarded in FY 2000 and project is now complete.
  • Upper Glade (Little Applegate), Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests
    The objectives of the project are reduction of stand density and fuel hazards. The area contains two components of fuel hazard reduction treatments: the Yale Community Fire Risk Reduction project on public lands adjacent to the Yale neighborhood, and fuel hazard reduction on approximately 294 acres in the subwatershed by reducing the high density and high basal area of small diameter submerchantable trees. One contracting was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Siuslaw Basin Rehabilitation Project, Siuslaw National Forest
    The Siuslaw Basin project seeks to increase community participation in the design and implementation of a rehabilitation project, while reducing associated preparation/planning and administrative costs. Five contracts were awarded between FY 2002 and FY 2004.
  • Antelope Pilot Project, Fremont-Winema National Forests
    The Antelope Pilot project will focus on the protection and management of old growth ecosystems within the Chemult Ranger District of the Winema National Forest. Specific resource management objectives for the project include: reducing fire hazard, reducing growth-related competition and moisture stress, providing cover and forage for big game, and encouraging the development of markets for small diameter ponderosa pine. A contract was awarded in FY 1999 and the project is completed.
  • Foggy Eden, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests
    Foggy Eden seeks to increase representation of old growth forest communities, improve existing riparian corridors, and reduce the spread of noxious weeds within the project area. The project also aims to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, enhance various recreational opportunities, and maintain habitat and forage for game species.
  • Metolius Basin Fuels Management Project, Deschutes National Forest
    The Metolius Basin project is designed to reduce the risk of wildfire, insect and disease, while also protecting the safety of the public, communities and visitors to the forest. A contract was awarded in FY 2006.
  • Thinning & Off-Site Pine Log Removal, Umpqua National Forest
    The Thinning and Off-Site Pines Project is to perform vegetation management treatments (commercial and non-commercial thinning) for density control, stand structure development, and stand composition management, by removing off-site ponderosa pine and restoring native plant communities. The number of acres proposed for treatment is approximately 460.
  • HFR Biomass Disposal, Umatilla National Forest
    This project will accomplish fuels reduction on the Heppner and North Fork John Day Ranger Districts. Two contracts were awarded in FY 2005.
  • Ashland Watershed Stewardship Project, Siskiyou National Forest
    This project aims to protect water quality in the Ashland watershed from the effects of catastrophic wildfire by performing fuels reduction projects. This project will treat approximately 840 acres.

Bureau of Land Management

  • Gerber Stew, Klamath Field Office
    This project will implement an array of treatments on forest lands, juniper woodlands, and rangelands. The objectives of the project are: improve forest health conditions through density management treatments; assess the potential for watershed restoration and attainment of Range Health Standards; reduce fuel hazards on forested lands around Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas; and promote juniper and other biomass utilization by the local communities.
  • Penny Stew, Medford Field Office
    The 1,850 acre Little Canyon Mountain Fuels Reduction project, which borders private residents in the Canyon City area, has had insect infestations which are killing individual and small groups of ponderosa pine, affecting approximately 50 percent of the stand. In addition, stands are overstocked in all size classes with dense pockets of ponderosa pine reproduction in the understory. Project objectives are to reduce tree densities in all size classes, reduce ladder fuels, particularly within one-fourth mile of residential areas, restore fire-adapted ecosystems, and improve forest health for improved resiliency to insects, disease, and fire.
  • Penny Stew, Medford Field Office
    This 100 acre project will improve stand vigor, including resistance to insect, disease and severe fire in mid seral, Douglas-fir, pine stands, and reduce fuel hazard by thinning understory conifers, shrubs & hardwoods.
  • Upper Cove, Baker City Field Office
    The Upper Cove Stewardship Project, 250 acres in three small parcels, will be treated to improve forest health conditions & reduce fuel loads. Treatments include 115 acres of commercial thinning, 61 acres of shelterwood harvest (lodgepole pine) and 75 acres of precommercial thinning (PCT).

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Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007