Washington - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • Quartzite Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The Quartzite project is designed to reduce the susceptibility of the forest to insects, drought, and atypical fire.
  • Siwash Stewardship Project, Wenatchee National Forest
    The Siwash project is designed to restore stand health to historical conditions, improve condition class of the forest, and increase public and firefighter safety. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Liberty Stewardship Project, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
    The objectives of the Liberty project are to reduce fuel loading and improve wildlife habitat. This project will treat approximately 1,624 acres.
  • Flat Stewardship Project, Olympic National Forest
    The Flat Stewardship is designed to improve ecosystem function, reduce erosion, and enhance wildlife habitat. This project will treat approximately 200 acres.
  • Stray Cat Stewardship Project, Gifford Pinchot National Forest
    The objective of the Stray Cat Stewardship Project is to reduce the risk of large-scale defoliation from insect and disease activity and stand-replacing wildfires. The project will treat approximately 909 acres.
  • Dry Creek Stewardship Project, Gifford Pinchot National Forest
    The goal of the Dry Creek Stewardship Project is to protect and enhance conditions of late-successional and old growth forest ecosystems through restoring structural diversity. This project will treat approximately 69 acres.
  • Cat Creek Stewardship Project, Gifford Pinchot National Forest
    The Cat Creek Stewardship Project was developed by the Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Working Group to test the benefits to watershed health of variable-density thinning. Through this project the Forest will: accelerate the development of late-successional forest structure, reduce erosion, enhance wildlife habitat, provide local employment opportunities, and demonstrate successful collaboration amongst stakeholders.
  • Hungry Hunter Ecosystem Restoration Project, Okanogan National Forest
    The Hungry Hunter area is considered to be at high risk for loss of late successional habitat from catastrophic wildfire. The primary focus of the Hungry Hunter Ecosystem Restoration Stewardship Pilot will be to address this issue of fire risk at a landscape scale. Specific activities include manipulating vegetation to reduce the risk of wildfires; altering vegetation to enhance potential late successional habitat; providing opportunities for timber and other forest product removal; and rehabilitating and adjusting the road system in the area in order to improve habitat, reduce erosion, and reduce the road maintenance burden for the Forests. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Littlehorn Wild Sheep Habitat Restoration, Colville, National Forest
    Recent habitat assessments have indicated that bighorn sheep habitat in the Vulcan Mountain area is marginal in quality, with a general declining trend. The Littlehorn Wild Sheep Habitat project will improve bighorn sheep habitat (through removal of understory commercial and non-commercial tree species), restore degraded ecosystems, and contribute to the consumptive and non-consumptive wildlife recreational opportunities. A contract was awarded in FY 2000 and this project is now complete.
  • Oh Deer Stewardship Project, Wenatchee National Forest
    The Oh Deer Stewardship Project objective includes modifying/reducing fire behavior in Fire Regime I and II areas by altering the current post-fire fuel profiles in an attempt to reduce future fire intensity and severity to levels that more closely approximate historical conditions.
  • Scatter Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objectives of the Scatter Stewardship Project are to decrease mortality and fuel build-up within a mountain pine beetle and Douglas fir beetle infestation in a campground and the wildland urban interface. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Deadman Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The Deadman Stewardship Project aims to create more late structural stands and improve forest health. This project will treat approximately 255 acres.
  • Burnt Valley WUI Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objective of the Burnt Valley WUI Stewardship Project is to protect communities from wildfire by reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Lakes WUI Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objective of the Lakes WUI Stewardship Project is to protect communities from wildfire by reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface. This project will treat approximately 5,400 acres.
  • Orient WUI Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objective of the Orient WUI Stewardship Project is to protect communities from wildfire by reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface. This project will treat approximately 513 acres.
  • Bead Lake WUI Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objective of the Bead Lake WUI Stewardship Project is to protect communities in the Bead Lake area from wildfire by reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Bangs WUI Stewardship Project, Colville National Forest
    The objectives of the Bangs WUI Stewardship Project are to protect communities from wildfire by reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface and provide safety for firefighters engaged in wildfire suppression. This project will treat approximately 1,277 acres.

Bureau of Land Management

  • There are no approved Stewardship Contracting projects at this time.

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Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007