Northwest Oregon District Winter-Spring 2021 Planning Update

Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021

Bureau of Land Management Northwest Oregon District Winter-Spring 2021 Quarterly Planning Update

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of subsurface mineral estate throughout the nation. The agency’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

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ASTORIA NORTHWEST OREGON DISTRICT

PORTLAND

SALEM 202

SAINT HELENS EUGENE

OREGON TILLAMOOK FIELD OFFICE

HILLSBORO PORTLAND TILLAMOOK 47

OREGON CITY

99E

MCMINNVILLE 5 101

18 CASCADES SALEM FIELD DALLAS 99W OFFICE

22 MARYS PEAK

FIELD OFFICE ALBANY

CORVALLIS

34 5

36 126

EUGENE 126 UPPER WILLAMETTE SIUSLAW FIELD OFFICE FIELD OFFICE LEGEND Bureau of Land Management 58 U.S. Forest Service

No warranty is made by the Bureau of Land Management as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data for individual or aggregate use with other data. Original data were compiled from various sources and may be updated without notification. Northwest Miles Oregon District GIS 3/1/2021 05 10 20 30 ± Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021

Projects Described in this Document Tables 1 through 6, below, describe the planning status of current projects. Projects are organized by project type, project name/description, location, planning status, and contact person. Projects started and completed between editions of this document have gone through the full analysis process. The BLM notifies the public of these projects through this document; mailings and emails to contacts on the Northwest Oregon District Field Offices’ National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) notification lists; newspaper legal notices; and postings on the BLM National NEPA register website (ePlanning). Previous Quarterly Planning updates for the Northwest Oregon District can be located here: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning- and-nepa/plans-in-development/oregon-washington. Tables 7 and 8 describe the Fiscal Year 2021 timber sales by Sustained Yield Unit (SYU). The timber sales listed in Tables 7 and 8 are considered “green timber” sales. Fire salvage timber sales are not included in Tables 7 and 8 at this time. The SYU timber sale plan can be found at the following website: https://www.blm.gov/or/resources/forests/index.php. ePlanning Register Website To access this site, go to: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/home. Under “Find a Project” you can search by “State” (Oregon/Washington), Office (select NW Oregon District Office for Northwest Oregon District projects, select Cascades FO (Field Office) for Cascades projects, select Marys Peak FO for Marys Peak projects, select Siuslaw FO for Siuslaw projects, select Tillamook FO for Tillamook projects, and select Upper Willamette FO for Upper Willamette projects). You can also search by “Type(s)” of document (Categorical Exclusions, Determination of NEPA Adequacy, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Impact Statement), resource “Program(s)”, and fiscal “Year(s)” (October to September) the project was inputted into ePlanning. You do not need to fill out all of these options to search. Check the box next to “Show only open participation periods” to see projects with open comment periods. Unselect the box nest to “Show only active projects” if you want to see all projects within a given Office, Type, Program, and/or Year. Then click the Search button and your results will be shown below. You can also search by entering the NEPA number or project name (under the “Name/Description of Project” column in Tables 1-6 below). Many projects in Tables 1-6 of this document are hyperlinked to ePlanning. If you have an electronic copy of the Planning Update, you may click on the project name in Tables 1 to 6 to access the ePlanning project website.

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Acronyms and Definitions Categorical Exclusion (CX): A category of actions (identified in agency guidance) that do not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment and for which neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

Decision Record (DR): The BLM decision document associated with an EA that describes the action to be taken when the analysis supports a finding of no significant impact.

Determination of NEPA Adequacy (DNA): An interim step in the BLM’s internal analysis process that concludes that a proposed action is adequately analyzed in an existing NEPA document (an EIS or EA). Where applicable, the determination also addresses conformance with an approved land use plan.

District Designated Reserve (DDR): One of the federal land use allocations set forth in the 2016 Northwestern and Coastal Oregon Resource Management Plan (RMP). The objective of this land use allocation is to maintain the values and resources for which the BLM has reserved these areas from sustained-yield harvest. These lands include constructed facilities and infrastructure, such as seed orchards, roads, communication sites, quarries, buildings, and maintenance yards, as well as Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), Timber Production Capabilities Classification (TPCC) lands, and Lands Managed for their Wilderness Characteristics (LWC).

Environmental Assessment (EA): A public document prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that provides sufficient evidence and analysis to determine whether a federal undertaking would significantly affect the quality of the human environment. If the answer is no, the agency issues a finding of no significant impact (FONSI), otherwise, the agency will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): A document mandated by NEPA to assess the potential impacts of federal agency actions “significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”

Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI): A finding that explains how an action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment pursuant to NEPA, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement will not be required.

FY: Fiscal Year.

Harvest Land Base (HLB): One of the federal land use allocations set forth in the Northwestern and Coastal Oregon RMP. Those lands on which the determination and declaration of the Annual Productive Capacity/Allowable Sale Quantity (ASQ) is based. The ASQ is based on implementing a set of specific timber management activities and assumes those practices will be repeated over time and results in a sustainable harvest level. This includes the Moderate Intensity Timber Area (MITA) and Low Intensity Timber Area (LITA).

Land Use Allocation (LUA): A designation defining uses that are allowed, restricted, or prohibited for a particular area of land. The LUAs are Congressionally Reserved Lands and

7 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 National Conservation Lands, District-Designated Reserve, Harvest Land Base, Late- Successional Reserve, and Riparian Reserve.

Late-Successional Reserves (LSR): One of the federal land use allocations set forth in the Northwestern and Coastal Oregon RMP land use allocations. The Northwestern and Coastal Oregon RMP designated lands to a land use allocation of the same name, but the objectives of the LSR are to manage habitat for the northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet.

Low Intensity Timber Area (LITA): A sub-allocation of the Harvest Land Base land use allocation. See Harvest Land Base.

MBF: Thousand board feet.

Moderate Intensity Timber Area (MITA): A sub-allocation of the Harvest Land Base land use allocation. See Harvest Land Base.

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): A federal law that requires agencies to determine if their proposed actions have significant environmental effects. The NEPA procedures ensure that environmental information is available to the public, and that the public has an opportunity to participate in the process before federal agency decisions are made and before actions are taken that may have a significant effect on the environment. The NEPA process provides an understanding of environmental consequences of the proposed actions to help federal agency officials make decisions.

Regeneration harvest: Any removal of trees intended to assist regeneration already present or to make regeneration possible.

Riparian Reserve (RR): One of the federal land use allocations set forth in the 2016 Northwestern and Coastal Oregon RMP. Lands within the Riparian Reserve were designated to manage for ESA-listed fish species and their habitats and water quality.

SBA: Small Business Administration.

Sustained Yield Unit (SYU): An administrative unit for which an allowable sale quantity is calculated. In western Oregon, the six sustained yield units correspond to the Coos Bay; Eugene; Medford, Roseburg, and Salem Districts, and the western portion of the Klamath Falls Field Office. The consolidation of the Salem and Eugene Districts did not affect sustained yield units.

Thinning - Commercial Thinning/Density Management: Commercial thinning is stand thinning in which some or all of the cut trees are removed from the stand for timber. Density Management is the cutting of trees for the primary purpose of widening their spacing so that growth of remaining trees can be accelerated. Density management harvest can also be used to improve forest health, to open the forest canopy, or to accelerate the attainment of old growth characteristics if maintenance or restoration of biological diversity is the objective. Specific objectives would vary by land use allocation.

8 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 1: Cascades Field Office Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions FY 2021 Timber Sales: The current status of Cascades Field Office timber sales is described in Table 7: Carolyn’s Cranes and Unger Dog (non-ASQ).

EA Completed August 2019. FONSI signed June 26, 2019. Decision Record (DR) on Sweet T.6S. R.1E., sections Pea Timber Sale signed 13, 25; T.7S., R.2E., Bi-County Timber Management Project (DOI- August 7, 2019. DR on sections 9, 15, 23, 27, BLM-ORWA-N010-2017-0008-EA): This project Gallon House Timber 33. Abiqua-Pudding proposes thinning and regeneration harvest on Sale signed November Tanner Hartman Creek, Butte-Pudding approximately 580 acres under multiple timber 8, 2019. DR on [email protected] Creek, and Rock sales within the Harvest Land Base-MITA land Cemetery Road Timber (503) 315-5966 Creek Watersheds, use allocation. Sale signed July 28, Marion and 2020 (no appeal). DR Clackamas Counties on Carolyn’s Cranes Timber Sale signed August 17, 2020 (no appeal).

T.9S., R.2E., sections Fishermen’s Bend Vegetation Management Plan 25 and 26, EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2017-0017-EA): Fishermen's Bend Project paused due to Kenny Ruzicka This project proposes to outline the reforestation Recreation Site, impacts from Beachie [email protected] techniques used to revegetate the recreation site approximately 2 Creek fire. (503) 375-5713 post emergency harvest of the dead and dying miles east of Mill conifers. City in Marion County, Oregon

Green Peter Timber Management Project (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N010-2019-0015-EA): This project T.12S., R.3E., section proposes commercial thinning and regeneration 19, 20, 21, and 30. EA Completed – with Tanner Hartman harvest on approximately 430 acres under multiple Green Peter Lake- FONSI signed [email protected] timber sales within the HLB-MITA land use Middle Santiam River November 5, 2020. (503) 315-5966 allocation. Approximately 108 acres of the 5th Field Watershed, proposed project is located within the Green Peter Linn County Peninsula Extensive Recreation Management Area

Unger Dog Timber Management Project (DOI- T.4S., R.3E., sections BLM-ORWA-N010-2020-0004-CX): Project is to Ongoing – CX under 13 and 23 maintain and improve Horning Seed Orchard specialist review. Charles Brown approximately 40 operations for seed generation through Decision Record to be [email protected] miles northeast of regeneration harvest and commercial thinning signed early Spring (503) 375-5605 Salem, Clackamas (non-ASQ). Entire project area is District- 2021. County, Oregon Designated Reserve land use allocation.

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Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact T.4S., R.4E., Sections Mr. Walton’s Opus Timber Management Project 23 and 35; T.5S., (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2020-0013-EA): This Paused for emergency R.4E., sections 2 and project proposes thinning and regeneration harvest stabilization and 3; T.5S., R.4E., on approximately 786 acres under multiple timber rehabilitation actions Tanner Hartman sections 3, 5, 9 and sales within the Harvest Land Base-MITA land within Beachie Creek [email protected] 10; T.5S., R.4E., use allocation (LUA). Also proposed are and Riverside Fire (503) 315-5966 sections 7, 9, 10 and treatments within an 8-acre Riparian Reserve LUA perimeters. 17, Clackamas to improve fish and aquatic habitat. County, Oregon Post Fire Restoration and Salvage Beachie Creek Post-Wildfire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Project (DOI- T.6S., R.2E.; T.6S., BLM-ORWA-N010-2021-0001-CX): BLM is R.3E.; T.7S., R.2E.; implementing post-wildfire emergency T.7S., R.3E.; T.7S., stabilization and rehabilitation activities within the R.4E.; T.8S., R.2E.; Beachie Creek Fire perimeter based on the final T.8S., R.3E.; T.8S., 2020 Beachie Creek and Riverside Fires Burned R.4E.; T.9S., R.2E.; Complete. Decision René Wahl Area Emergency Response Plan (BAER Plan). T.9S., R.3E.; T.9S., Record signed January [email protected] The objective of this Project is to determine the R.4E.; T.10S., R.3E.; 14, 2021. (503) 375-5646 need for, prescribe and implement emergency T.10S., R.4E., treatments to minimize threats to life or property Sections within the and to stabilize and prevent unacceptable Beachie Creek Fire degradation to natural and cultural resources perimeter, Marion resulting from the effects of a fire. The CX County, Willamette authority is Departmental 1.13, Post-Fire Meridian, Oregon Rehabilitation Activities. T.6S., R.2E.; T.6S., R.3E.; T.7S., R.2E.; Beachie Creek Fire Emergency Stabilization and T.7S., R.3E.; T.7S., Rehabilitation Roadside Hazard Tree Removal R.4E.; T.8S., R.2E.; Project (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2021-0004- T.8S., R.3E.; T.8S., CX): BLM is implementing post-wildfire R.4E.; T.8S, R.5E., emergency stabilization and rehabilitation T.9S., R.2E.; T.9S., Complete. Decision René Wahl roadside hazard/danger tree removal on both sides R.3E.; T.9S., R.4E.; Record signed January [email protected] of approximately 102 miles (3802) acres. The T.10S., R.3E.; T.10S., 27, 2021. (503) 375-5646 objective of this Project is to eliminate dead and R.4E., Sections dying trees along selected roads to minimize the within the Beachie potential for injury/damage from falling trees. The Creek Fire perimeter, CX authority is BLM I.1, Emergency Marion County, Stabilization. Willamette Meridian, Oregon

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Riverside Post-Wildfire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Project (No NEPA number yet): This Project would be based on the BAER Plan and implement post-wildfire emergency T.4S., R.4E.; T.4S., stabilization and rehabilitation activities within the R.5E.; T.4S., R.6E.; Riverside Fire perimeter. The objective of this T.5S., R.3E.; T.5S., René Wahl Project would be to determine the need for, R.5E.; T.5S., R.6E.; Planned. [email protected] prescribe and implement emergency treatments to T.6S., R.3E.; T.6S., (503) 375-5646 minimize threats to life or property and to stabilize R.4E.; T.6S., R.5E.; and prevent unacceptable degradation to natural T.6S., R.6E. and cultural resources resulting from effects of a fire. The CX authority is anticipated to be Departmental 1.13, Post-Fire Rehabilitation Activities. Riverside Fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Roadside Hazard Tree Removal Project (No NEPA number yet): This Project would implement emergency stabilization and T.4S., R.4E.; T.4S., rehabilitation roadside hazard/danger tree removal R.5E.; T.4S., R.6E.; on both sides of selected roads, the miles of which T.5S., R.3E.; T.5S., René Wahl will be determined (as well as acres). The R.5E.; T.5S., R.6E.; Planned. [email protected] objective of this Project would be to eliminate T.6S., R.3E.; T.6S., (503) 375-5646 dead and dying trees along selected roads to R.4E.; T.6S., R.5E.; minimize the potential for injury/damage from T.6S., R.6E. falling trees. The CX authority would be either Departmental 1.13, Post-Fire Rehabilitation Activities or BLM I.1, Emergency Stabilization.

Fawn Creek Fire Salvage CX (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N010-2021-0007-CX): The BLM is T.8S., R.3E., section proposing to conduct salvage harvest on Andy Frazier 26, T.8S., R.4.E, Scoping planned for approximately 190 acres of recently burned timber [email protected] sections 30, 31. March 2021. in the Harvest Land Base MITA. Danger tree (503) 315-5979 Marion County removal would occur along roads in all land use allocations.

Black Horse Fire Salvage Project (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N010-2021-0006-CX): The project T.7S., R.3E., Sections proposes salvage of up to 250 acres within the 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, Scoping planned for Tanner Hartman Harvest Land Base LUA to recover economic and 27, Clackamas March 2021. [email protected] value of dead and dying trees. Salvage operations County, Oregon (503) 315-5966 would include both cable and ground-based logging.

Cascades Field Office Roadside Hazard Tree Treatment and Vegetation Management Project BLM-administered (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2021-0005-EA): The lands and road project proposes falling and removal of hazard systems within the Scoping on project Tanner Hartman trees along BLM-administered and controlled 2020 fire perimeters. February 24-March 10, [email protected] roads within areas impacted by the 2020 fires Marion and 2021. (503) 315-5966 across all ROD/RMP LUA. The proposal also Clackamas Counties, includes replanting and mechanical maintenance Oregon to increase stand resilience.

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Recreation Actions

Wildwood Recreation Area Management Plan (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2016-0003-EA): The T.2S., R.7E., section Dan Davis purpose of the plan is to analyze how the site is 31. Clackamas Project paused. [email protected] currently serving regional recreation needs, County (503) 315-5935 including overnight use and environmental education.

Mt Hood Wild and Scenic Rivers Comprehensive Management Plan (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010- 2019-0018-EA): BLM is participating as a cooperating agency with the US Forest Service in the development of a Comprehensive River Ongoing. Public review Whitney Wirthlin Management Plan (CRMP) for nine Wild and Nine rivers within the of EA and Draft CRMP [email protected] Scenic Rivers within the Mt. Hood National Mt. Hood Area scheduled for February (503) 375-5612 Forest. Four of the rivers are either on, adjacent to, 19 to March 22, 2021. or near lands that BLM manages. The South Fork Clackamas River corridor is the only river corridor that includes both National Forest System and BLM-administered lands.

Miscellaneous Land Use Requests Process Requests (EA/CX/DNA): For various Cascades Field land uses such as rights-of-way, tail-holds, and Ongoing Office-wide special use permits Thetford Lodge Lease Reissue – Septic Replacement (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2020- Withdrawn. Thetford 0003-EA): Willamette University proposes to T.9S., R.3E., section Lodge was destroyed replace the old failing waste system with a Amy Herburger 7 on Thetford Lodge during the Beachie contemporary permitted septic system with drain [email protected] Occupancy Lease Creek Fire. Hazmat and field and expand lease boundary. Project is within (503) 315-5917 OROR-22180 decommissioning/rehab the Riparian Reserve; Late-Successional Reserve; ilitation of site pending. and Canyon Creek Recreation SRMA land use allocations. AT&T Mobility Communication Tower Extension (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N010-2020-0014- CX): By application received on March 19, 2020, T.2S., R.6E., Section AT&T Mobility proposes to extend an existing 14, SE¼NW¼, Completed. Decision Amy Herburger 80-foot communications lattice tower to 100-feet Clackamas County, Record signed [email protected] using a 20-foot tower extension. No additional Oregon, OROR- September 2, 2020. (503) 315-5917 disturbance to site dimensions would be necessary 54285 because the only change to would be the tower extension.

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C800 Crutcher Bench Communication Tower Microwave Beam Path Right-of-Way (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N010-2021-0003-EA) Clackamas 800 Radio Group (C800) proposes a microwave beam path right-of-way from its Crutcher Bench Essential Public Communications Services Public EA and Facility (communications) tower to Hoodland Fire T. 2 S., R. 7 E., Unsigned FONSI Tower 252 (Proposed Action) to enhance Sections 28 and 29, Amy Herburger review period from emergency communication capability and public Clackamas County, [email protected] February 27, 2021 safety. Currently the microwave signal is Oregon, OROR- (503) 315-5917 through March 13, obstructed by trees. The beam path right-of-way 70321 would provide a long-term solution to signal 2021. interference, within which tree heights would be modified to ensure connectivity. The Project would increase predictability of emergency services and public safety because this would be a second (backup) microwave signal path.

13 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 2: Marys Peak Field Office Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions FY 2021 Timber Sales: The current status of Marys Peak timber sales is described in Table 7: Mustang Ranch and Kluster. Beaty Ryder Late-Successional Reserve Enhancement EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N020- T.13S., R.7W., section Completed. Decision Scott Hopkins 2018-0009-EA): The BLM is planning a thinning 31, and T.13S., R.8W., Record signed July [email protected] harvest on approximately 374 acres of forest section 25. Benton 2020. Protests denied (503) 315-5956 stands in Benton County. Stands proposed for County December 2020. treatment are within the 30- to 70-year age classes.

Little K Forest Management EA (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N020-2019-0011-EA): The BLM is Ongoing. BLM released T.7S., R.7W., section proposing timber harvest on approximately 460 updated EA for public Macrina Lesniak 31, and T.8S., R.8W., acres within the Harvest Land Base (MITA). comment August 2020. [email protected] section 11. Polk Forest stands are within the 60- to 80- year age Decision expected (503) 315-5963 County classes. Portions of the project area were summer 2021. commercially thinned between 2003-2011.

Wild Goose Timber Harvest EA (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N020-2017-0006-EA): The BLM is issuing a decision for the remaining forest Ongoing. Decision Stefanie Winfree management projects analyzed within this EA. T.7S., R.6W., sections expected spring/summer [email protected] Actions include regeneration harvest within mid- 4-7. Polk County. 2021. (503) 375-5601 seral forests in the Harvest Land Base (LITA), road work, and post-harvest fuel reduction treatments.

Recreation Actions The BLM is not planning any recreation actions in the Marys Peak Field Office at this time. Restoration Actions Upper Rickreall Creek Log Transport DNA (No NEPA number yet): The BLM is considering T.8S., R.6W., section transporting up to 60 logs from decking sites at 31; T.7S., R.7W., Anthony Spitzack Laurel Mountain (7-7-31 road) and Teal Creek and DNA anticipated for section 29; T.8S., [email protected] up to 120 logs from the 8-6-31.0 road to decking 2021 completion. R.7W., sections 2 and (503) 315-5960 sites along Rickreall Creek (7-6-36 road) in 3. Polk County. preparation for a possible LWD project in Upper Rickreall Creek. 2020 Upper Luckiamute River Large Woody Debris Project DNA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N020- 2020-0005-DNA): The BLM is considering a large woody debris placement project in the Upper T.9S., R.7W., sections Anthony Spitzack DNA completed June Luckiamute River in the Luckiamute watershed. 4, 5, 9, 15, 17, and 21, [email protected] 2020. The project would source up to 80 trees (tipping Polk County. (503) 315-5960 and cutting) from BLM-managed land, transport those logs to the restoration site, and place wood into the creek through a series of debris jams.

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Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact South Fork Pedee Creek and Glenbrook Tributary Creek Culvert Replacement (DOI- Anthony Spitzack T.9S., R.7W., section DNA completed July BLM-ORWA-N020-2020-0006-DNA): The BLM [email protected] 13. Polk County. 2020. is replacing culverts on South Fork Pedee Creek (503) 315-5960 and an unnamed tributary of Glenbrook Creek. Upper Beaty Creek Culvert Replacement (No NEPA number yet): The BLM is considering a DNA anticipated for Anthony Spitzack T.13S., R.8W., section project to replace and reorient an undersized spring/summer 2021 [email protected] 36. Benton County. culvert at the 13-8-36.0 road crossing over Beaty completion. (503) 315-5960 Creek.

Miscellaneous Land Use Requests

Caldwell Right-of-Way Grant (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N020-2021-0002-CX): The BLM issued a Janet Myers T.6S., R.10W., section CX/DR completed right-of-way grant to authorize a well, pumphouse, [email protected] 35. Lincoln County. December 2020. and water tank on approximately 0.03 acres of (503) 315-5978 BLM-managed lands.

Marys Peak Bonneville Power Administration Communications Site Project EA (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N020-2016-0004-EA): The BLM signed an MOU with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to serve as a cooperating T.12S., R.7W., Ongoing. BPA offered a Stefanie Winfree agency on the project. The BPA needs to maintain sections 21, 28. Benton public comment on the [email protected] and upgrade the existing communications site at County. draft EA in fall 2020. (503) 375-5601 Marys Peak. The BLM will issue its own decision. See BPA website for more information: https://www.bpa.gov/efw/Analysis/NEPADocume nts/Pages/Marys-Peak-BPA-Communications- Site-Project.aspx

Process Requests (EA/CX/DNA): For various Stefanie Winfree Marys Peak Field land uses such as rights-of-way, tailholds, and Ongoing [email protected] Office-wide special use permits. (503) 375-5601

15 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 3: Siuslaw Field Office Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions FY 2021 Timber Sale: The current status of Siuslaw’s timber sales are described in Table 8: Pucker Up.

Nails Creek Environmental Assessment (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N030-2017-0007-EA): Initial scoping letter was sent out November 2016. A field trip for the commenters was conducted on November 8, 2017. The EA was released for public comment in EA completed and September 2018. The Nails Creek Project is FONSI signed May Joshua M. Carnahan approximately 304 acres within the Harvest Land T.16S., R.6W., 2019, upcoming [email protected] Base, Moderate Intensity Timber Area, which are sections 1, 3, and 11 timber sale decisions: (541) 683-6983 being considered for the following treatments: High Three Regeneration Harvest, designation of retention areas, reforestation, commercial thinning, snag creation, fuels treatments, and other associated activities such as logging systems, road construction, road renovation and road improvement South Siuslaw Environmental Assessment (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N030-2017-0027-EA): Initial scoping letter was sent out on August 25, 2018. The EA was released for public comment on February 14, 2019. T.20S., R.4W., The areas being proposed for thinning are sections 15, 17, 19, approximately 3,200 acres within the Late- 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, and Joshua M. Carnahan Successional Reserve (LSR) and Riparian Reserve 33; T.21S., R.4W., Project complete [email protected] (RR) Land Use Allocations and are being considered sections 3 and 5; (541) 683-6983 for the following treatments: Commercial thinning, T.21S., R.5W., snag creation, skip and gap creation, tree planting, sections 15, 17, 21, tree tipping and non-commercial thinning. 29, and 35 Associated forest management actions from logging systems, road construction, and road renovation and improvement would be part of the proposed action.

N126 LSR Landscape Plan (DOI-BLM-ORWA- N030-2018-0022-EA): This EA will programmatically analyze actions to restore complex late-successional forests, including commercial timber harvest, non-commercial restoration treatments, and associated connected actions (e.g., roadwork, fuels treatments, dead wood creation, etc.) Late-Successional within the LSR and RR LUA lands managed by the Reserve and Riparian Joshua M. Carnahan Siuslaw Field Office. EA is complete and Reserve LUAs of the [email protected] decision signed. Planning for this project is ongoing. An initial Siuslaw Field Office, (541) 683-6983 scoping letter was sent out on August 25, 2018. The north of Hwy. 126 30-day public scoping period started on December 3, 2018. The analysis area for the EA includes approximately 25,000 acres of LSR and RR LUA stands north of Highway 126 and within the Siuslaw Field Office, as well as approximately 8,000 acres of Late-Successional Reserve and Riparian Reserve LUA stands within the Mary's Peak Field Office.

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Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact

Siuslaw HLB Landscape Plan (DOI-BLM-ORWA- N030-2020-0002-EA): The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Siuslaw Field Office, Northwest Oregon District is initiating an Environmental Assessment for the Harvest Land Base. A scoping letter was sent to the Eugene SYU NEPA mailing list on November 20, 2019 and posted on ePlanning. The analysis area for the EA includes approximately 13,225 acres of Harvest Harvest Land Base Morgan Schneider Land Base Land Use Allocations within the Siuslaw Ongoing - EA in within the Siuslaw [email protected] Field Office. The “Siuslaw HLB Landscape Plan” Progress Field Office (541) 683-6407 Environmental Assessment would programmatically analyze commercial timber harvest and associated connected actions (e.g., road construction, renovation, or improvement, fuels treatments, dead wood creation, etc.) within the Harvest Land Base. This programmatic analysis is not an implementation plan; rather, it is a broad look at the effects of commercial timber harvest across the analysis area on public land west of Eugene, Oregon.

Spike Schaffer Density Management Categorical Exclusion (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N030-2019-0010- CX): Commercial thinning project on approximately Morgan Schneider 63 acres in the Late-Successional Reserve. Proposed T. 19S, R. 5 W, Complete [email protected] actions include commercial timber harvest of young Section 33 (541) 683-6407 Douglas-fir plantations and connected actions (e.g. renovation, or improvement, fuels treatments, dead wood creation, etc.).

Public Safety Hult Reservoir and Dam Safety Environmental Impact Statement (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N030-2018- 0010-EIS): This project was placed on hold pending required analysis from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This analysis has been completed and the BLM is processing the information received. This project is expected to publish a new Notice of Intent in the Federal Register in mid-spring to early- summer 2020. In July 2012, the BLM completed a Comprehensive Dam Evaluation (CDE) on the dam Notice of Intent Joshua M. Carnahan T.15S., R.7W., section and spillway at Hult Reservoir, which found eleven expected in May [email protected] 26 potential failure modes presenting unacceptable high 2021. (541) 683-6983 risks for dam failure, five of which warrant expedited action to address. The notice of intent (NOI) was published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2018 (a link to the Federal Register NOI can be found here). The public comment period for the Hult Reservoir and Dam Safety EIS closed on June 29, 2018. The BLM is currently analyzing comments received and working with the Corps on preliminary analysis of the alternatives.

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Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Final Supplementary Rule for restriction of alcohol EA completed in use in the Lower Lake Creek Falls Special 2012, decision record Recreation Management Area (Federal Register completed 2016, Joshua M. Carnahan Notice) (DOI-BLM-ORWA-050-2012-0002-EA): T.16S., R.7W., section expected to be [email protected] This would put the final rule in place for the alcohol 19 published in the (541) 683-6983 ban at the Lower Lake Creek Falls Special Federal Register in Recreation Management Area which included the summer of 20210 Lower Lake Creek Falls Rock Slides. Miscellaneous Land Use Requests Process Requests (EA/CX/DNA): For various land Siuslaw Field Office- Ongoing Morgan Schneider uses such as rights-of-way, tailholds, and special use wide [email protected] permits. (541) 683-6407 West-Eugene Wetlands Actions West Eugene Wetlands (WEW) Integrated Herbicide Use and Prairie Restoration Strategy (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N030-2021-0001-DNA): Integrated prairie restoration and invasive plant management strategy, including chemical, manual, mechanical, thermal vegetation controls, seeding, Morgan Schneider West Eugene and prescribed burning in order to meet prairie In progress [email protected] Wetlands restoration goals established in The West Eugene (541) 683-6407 Wetlands Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan as well as invasive plant management goals as described in the Northwest Oregon District’s Integrated Invasive Plant Management Environmental Assessment. Reintroduction of Lomatium bradshawii and Erigeron decumbens ssp. Decumbens (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N030-2020-0004-DNA): Vinci LLC West Eugene Morgan Schneider proposes to coordinate with BLM to re‐introduce Wetlands – Summer In progress [email protected] federally-listed Lomatium bradshawii and Erigeron Oaks Parcel (541) 683-6407 decumbens ssp. decumbens into the Summer Oaks parcel.

18 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 4: Tillamook Field Office Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions FY 2021 Timber Sales: The current status of Tillamook’s timber sales are described in Table 7: The Sentinel and Klutch Play

A Decision for the North Yamhill River Timber Management Project third timber sale (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N040-2018-0006-EA): The under the North Field Office analyzed the effects of conducting Yamhill River Timber Upper North Yamhill Andy Pampush commercial harvest on approximately 1,800 acres of Management Project River 6th field [email protected] land allocated to the Harvest Land Base and Riparian is expected in March subwatershed (503) 815-1143 Reserve within the Upper North Yamhill 2021. The timber sale subwatershed. A FONSI was signed in August of is expected to be 2019. auctioned in May 2021.

Coast Creek Timber Management Project (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N040-2020-0001-EA): The Tillamook Field Office has completed environmental analyses for the Coast Creek Timber Management Coast Creek Project which includes regeneration harvest and subwatershed of the The first timber sale commercial thinning in the Harvest Land Base - Andy Pampush Willamina Creek 5th from the Coast Creek Moderate Intensity Timber Area, thinning within the [email protected] field watershed, Project is expected in Riparian Reserve land use allocation, and road (503) 815-1143 Yamhill County, construction and maintenance including the February 2022. Oregon replacement of several fish passage culverts. The timber management project includes approximately 1,015 acres and would result in multiple timber sales. A FONSI was signed in October of 2020.

Upper Willamina Forest Management Project: The Tillamook Field Office is in the preliminary planning stages of exploring a timber management project on Upper Willamina 2,000-2,800 acres of HLB, LSR, and RR lands in the Preliminary project Creek and Coast Upper Willamina Creek and Coast Creek drainages consideration is on- Creek subwatersheds Andy Pampush of the Willamina Creek Watershed. Treatments going. Scoping is of the Willamina [email protected] being considered range from restoration thinning on expected in Creek watershed, (503) 815-1143 LSR and RR lands to commercial thinning and Yamhill County, February/March regeneration harvest on HLB lands. Associated Oregon 2021. actions include but are not limited to road construction and renovation, culvert installation and replacement, snag creation, riparian tree felling, etc.

Miscellaneous Land Use Requests

Process Requests (EA/CX/DNA): For various land Andy Pampush Tillamook Field uses such as rights-of-way, tailholds, and special use Ongoing [email protected] Office-wide permits. (503) 815-1143

19 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 5: Upper Willamette Field Office Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions Fiscal Year 2021 Timber Sale: The current status of Upper Willamette’s timber sales is described in Table 8: Buckshot, Happy Trails, and Crooked Roller. Shotcash Timber Sale EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N050- 2018-0011-EA): This project proposes to implement commercial thinning and regeneration harvest within a study area of 1,300 acres north of Springfield, T.15S., R.1W., section Oregon. The study area is also within the Shotgun EA Completed – Maria Vasquez 31; T.15S., R.2W., OHV Extensive Recreation Management Area. The FONSI signed August [email protected] sections 15, 21, 22, project would include culvert replacements, new 10, 2020. 23, 25, 26, 28, and 36 (541) 683-6133 culvert installations, road renovation, road construction, road decommissioning, fuels treatments, snag creation, temporary OHV trail closures, and OHV trail restoration. King Mosby Forest Management (DOI-BLM- ORWA-N050-2019-0002-EA): This project analyzes T.21S., R.2W., commercial harvest alternatives on approximately sections 17, 21, 22, EA Completed - Maria Vasquez 1,500 acres in the HLB-LITA and HLB-MITA. The 25, 27, 29, 32, 33 and FONSI signed May [email protected] project would include regeneration and/or commercial 35; T.22S., R.2W., 27, 2020. thinning harvest, road work, culvert/drainage (541) 683-6133 sections 3 and 5 improvements, fuels treatments, snag creation, and reforestation. Marcola Sunrise EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N050- T.16S., R.1E., 0007-EA): The Upper Willamette Field Office (FO) Sections 7, 21, 29, and is proposing to prepare a Programmatic 31; T.16S., R.1W., Environmental Assessment to plan for both sections 11, 13, 15, Public comment regeneration harvest and commercial thinning within 17, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, period will be held in Matt Buss the Marcola Sunrise project area. 29, 33, and 35; T.16S., February. FONSI [email protected] R.2W., section 25; expected to be signed (541) 683-6453 T.17S., R.2W., section 13; and T.17S., in February/March. R.1W., sections 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, and 19 Thurston Hills Non-Motorized Trails and Forest Decision signed May Management Environmental Assessment EA (DOI- 18, 2020. Awaiting BLM-ORWA-N050-2017-0006-EA): The project T.18S., R.2W., court opinion to Case includes 109-acres of regeneration harvest and 8.5 Section 1; T.18S., Maria Vasquez 6:20-cv-01395-MK miles of hiking and biking trails within BLM’s R.1W., section 5; and [email protected] Cascadia Wildlands et Willamalane Extensive Recreation Management T.17S., R.1W., section al. v. United States (541) 683-6133 Area. Other project components include road work, 31 Bureau of Land culvert/drainage improvements, fuels treatments, snag Management. creation, and reforestation.

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Post Fire Restoration and Salvage Holiday Farm Fire Post-Fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR) CX (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N050-2021-0001-CX): The Upper Willamette Field Office has prepared a post-fire emergency stabilization program of work to The Holiday Farm accomplish stabilizing and rehabilitating areas Fire BLM footprint affected by the Holiday Farm Fire and related wildfire (see page 111 of the suppression efforts. The ESR program of work Holiday Farm Fire includes: erosion control and sediment transport, fell Emily Erwin BAER Report hazard trees, and stabilize boulders, road Decision signed [email protected] (https://eplanning.blm. decommissioning and closing other infrastructure, site November 17, 2020. (541) 683-6439 gov/public_projects/2 preparation and reforestation, and Burned Area 003346/200394302/20 Emergency Response (BAER) Plan Treatments. Per 029745/250035944/At the BLM categorical exclusion 516 DM 2 Appendix tachment.A.HolidayB 1, 1.13 Post-fire rehabilitation activities will not AERPlan.2020.pdf) exceed 4,200 acres, shall not include the use of herbicides or pesticides or the construction of new permanent roads or other new permanent infrastructure; and shall be completed within three years following a wildland fire. Holiday Farm Fire ESR Roadside Hazard Tree Removal (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N050-2021-0007-CX): The Upper Willamette Field Office has prepared a post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation work to remove dead and/or dying trees which have The Holiday Farm Public Comment been identified as a hazard to public safety. Work will Fire BLM footprint. period ends February be conducted in all land use allocation within the (https://eplanning.blm. Maria Vasquez 26, 2021. Categorical Holiday Farm Fire perimeter. Per the BLM gov/projects/2009923/ [email protected] exclusion expected to categorical exclusion 516 DM 2 Appendix 1, 1.13 200475910/20035022/ be signed in early (541) 683-6133 Post-fire rehabilitation activities will not exceed 4,200 250041220/HazardTre March 2021. acres, shall not include the use of herbicides or eCX_20210205.pdf) pesticides or the construction of new permanent roads or other new permanent infrastructure; and shall be completed within three years following a wildland fire. Wild and Woolly Salvage CX (DOI-BLM-ORWA- N050-2021-0003-CX): The Upper Willamette Field Office proposes to implement post-fire salvage of trees that were killed or damaged on Harvest Land Base – Moderate Intensity Timber Area (HLB-MITA) Maria Vasquez T.16S., R.2E., section land use allocation as defined in the Northwestern and Completed. [email protected] 23 Coastal Oregon Record of Decision and Resource (541) 683-6133 Management Plan (2016 ROD/RMP). The salvage would occur on 58 acres of the Wild and Woolly timber sale, which was actively being harvested prior to the Holiday Farm fire.

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Mid Indian Timber Salvage CX (DOI-BLM-ORWA- N050-2021-0004-CX): The Upper Willamette Field Office proposes to implement post-fire salvage of trees that were killed or damaged on Harvest Land Base – Moderate Intensity Timber Area (HLB-MITA) Maria Vasquez T.16S., R.2E., section land use allocation as defined in the Northwestern and Completed. [email protected] 21 Coastal Oregon Record of Decision and Resource (541) 683-6133 Management Plan (2016 ROD/RMP). The salvage would occur on 116 acres of the Mid Indian timber sale, which was actively being harvested prior to the Holiday Farm fire. HLB-MITA Salvage Project (No NEPA number T.15S., R.2E., section yet): Up to 1,345 acres of salvage of dead/dying trees, 19; T.16S., R.1W., and project actions are expected to include road work, section 13; T.16S., construction, renovation, improvement, and R.1E., sections 13, 21, decommissioning, slash reduction, site preparation, 23, 25, 29, 33, and 35; Linda Wright Project preparation and reforestation. The Upper Willamette Field Office T.16S., R.2E., [email protected] and planning. is still evaluating the appropriate NEPA vehicle to sections 17, 19, 20, (541) 683-6469 accomplish this task. 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, and 33; T.17S., R.2E., sections 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9

Miscellaneous Land Use Requests

Process Requests (EA/CX/DNA): For various land Maria Vasquez Upper Willamette uses such as rights-of-way, tailholds, and special use Ongoing. [email protected] Field Office-wide permits. (541) 683-6133 Restoration Actions Instream Habitat Restoration: T.15S., Upper Willamette Aquatic Restoration DNA (DOI- R.1W., sections 19, 30-32 BLM-ORWA-N050-2020-0011-DNA) Tiering to the : Road Restoration: Northwest Oregon District Aquatic Restoration EA T.21S., R.2W., Decision Record Steve Liebhardt for road decommissioning, pavement, and instream sections 25, 29; [email protected] signed June 17, 2020. habitat restoration. Tiering to the Northwest Oregon T.22S., R.02W., (541) 683-6454 District Aquatic Restoration EA for road sections 1, 2; T.16S., decommissioning, pavement, and instream habitat R.1W., section 15 restoration. Smith Creek Road Paving: T.21S., R.2W., section 1 Upper Willamette Prairie and Savanna DNA (DOI- BLM-ORWA-N050-2020-0009-DNA): Proposing to T.14S., R.2W., tier to the Integrated Invasive Plant Management for sections 29, 33; Decision Record Kan Dhillon Northwest Oregon District (DOI-BLM-ORWA- T.16S., R.3W., section signed November 9, [email protected] N000-2018-0002-EA) to restore 41 acres of prairie 13; T.20S., R.2W., 2020. (541) 683-6170 and savanna lands in three ACECs (Areas of Critical section 32 Environmental Concern) in the Upper Willamette Field Office

22 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 6: District-wide Proposed Projects

Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact Vegetation Management Actions

Integrated Pest Management for Tyrrell and Horning Seed Orchards EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA- N000-2019-0005-EA): Proposed project to improve BLM’s ability to manage the Tyrrell and Horning Seed Orchards for the purposes for which the BLM constructed them (USDI 2016d:56). BLM manages the Tyrrell and Horning Seed Orchards to grow high-quality seed for reforestation and restoration FONSI and Decision Paula Feldmeier efforts of non-BLM cooperators and all of western Horning and Tyrrell Record signed [email protected] Oregon BLM-administered lands. To effectively Seed Orchards November 9, 2020. (503) 315-5973 manage the sites, BLM must manage competing and unwanted vegetation, diseases, insects, and animal pests. Proposed project will expand upon current integrated pest management (IPM) program so BLM can meet increased seed demand (due to closure of Medford District seed orchards) more effectively and efficiently and update the IPM program to respond to label changes and new pests.

Tyrrell Seed Orchard FY 2021- FY 2023 IPM DNA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N030-2021-0003-DNA): Implement integrated pest management (IPM) Tyrrell Seed Orchard; activities such as, insecticide and herbicide DNA Public Review T.20S., R.5W., Paula Feldmeier applications, planting, tilling, pruning, dead and March 2021 with a sections 9, 15, 21 of [email protected] dying tree removal, roguing, pile burning, stump Decision in late the Willamette (503) 315-5973 grinding, mowing, fertilization, thinning, orchard Spring 2021. Meridian establishment, and cone collection within the 832.5- acre Tyrrell Seed Orchard boundary in fiscal years 2021 and 2022. Horning Seed Orchard 2021-2022 Integrated Pest Management (IPM) DNA (DOI-BLM-ORWA- Horning Seed N010-2021-0008-DNA): Implement integrated pest Paula Feldmeier Orchard, T. 4S, R. 3E, Decision in late management (IPM) activities, such as insecticide and [email protected] Sections 13 and 23, Spring 2021. herbicide applications, fertilization, and associated (503) 315-5973 Willamette Meridian limitations, protections, within the seed orchard boundary (760 acres) in calendar years 2021-2022. 2021 Northwest Oregon District Annual Treatment Plan for Invasive Plant Management/ Integrated Invasive Plant Management Treatments DNA (No NEPA number yet): In accordance with direction in the Decision Record and Integrated Invasive Plant Management for the Northwest Oregon District BLM lands across all Ongoing, DNA Emily Erwin Environmental Assessment (EA), the Northwest five Field Offices of Public Review [email protected] Oregon District BLM has proposed the 2021 Annual the Northwest Oregon Spring 2021. (541) 683-6439 Treatment Plan (ATP) for invasive plant District management. The treatment methods identified in this ATP include manual, mechanical, targeted grazing, competitive revegetation treatment methods, the application of one or more herbicides, or a combination of treatment methods.

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Name/Description of Project Location Planning Status Contact 2021 Northwest Oregon District Annual Treatment Plan for Invasive Plant Management/ Integrated Invasive Plant Management Fire Treatments DNA (No NEPA number yet): In accordance with direction in the Decision Record and Integrated Invasive Plant Management for the Northwest BLM lands across two Ongoing, DNA Emily Erwin Oregon District Environmental Assessment (EA), the Field Offices of the Public Review [email protected] Northwest Oregon District BLM has proposed the Northwest Oregon Spring 2021. (541) 683-6439 2021 Annual Treatment Plan (ATP) for invasive District plant management. The treatment methods identified in this ATP include manual, mechanical, targeted grazing, competitive revegetation treatment methods, the application of one or more herbicides, or a combination of treatment methods.

Restoration Actions

Northwest Oregon District Aquatic Restoration EA (2020 Revision) (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N000-2020- 0002-EA): The Northwest Oregon District (NOD) has decided to update the Aquatic Restoration EA based on internal reviews and comments to include impacts analysis to Recreation Management Areas (RMAs), Areas of Critical Environmental Concern BLM and non-federal (ACEC), and designated Wild & Scenic River Act Cory Sipher lands across the Decision Record waters. The BLM proposed to complete a variety of [email protected] Northwest Oregon signed May 19, 2020. aquatic and riparian habitat restoration projects on (541) 683-6459 District BLM administered lands and non-BLM- administered lands within NOD This EA addresses a suite of restoration projects that would be implemented to maintain and restore watershed conditions, establishes the scope and sideboards of the projects, and provides an analysis of the environmental consequences of the typical projects.

Miscellaneous Land Use Requests

Northwest Oregon District Commercial Filming 2020 CX (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N000-2020-0003- CX): The Northwest Oregon District (NOD) has decided to develop the commercial filming and still BLM lands across the Janet Myers photography categorical exclusion to process permit Northwest Oregon Complete. [email protected] applications for the NOD. Commercial filming and District (503) 315-5978 still photography on BLM managed lands would be authorized by land use permits (Form 2920-1) pursuant to the 43 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 2920.

24 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 7: Timber Sales for the Northwest Oregon District / Salem SYU - Fiscal Year 2021 Please note that the authorized officer may subsequently change or amend the information on any of these sales in Table 7 and Table 8. Cascades Field Office FY 2021 Timber Sale Name Carolyn’s Cranes Unger Dog Bi-County Timber Management Project EA (DOI-BLM- Unger Dog Timber Management Project (DOI-BLM- CX/EA Name, ePlanning # ORWA-N010-2017-0008-EA) ORWA-N010-2020-0004-CX) Land Use Allocation(s) Harvest Land Base District Designated Reserve-Horning Seed Orchard County Clackamas/Marion Clackamas Proposed Harvest Type Regeneration/Thinning Regeneration/Thinning Anticipated Acreage Involved 188 59 Anticipated Volume (MBF) 12,517 MBF 2,988 MBF NEPA Document Type and Status EA completed CX in progress Decision Status (DR or DNA/DR) DR signed August 19, 2020 DR to be completed Spring 2021 and date Marys Peak Field Office FY 2021 Timber Sale Name Mustang Ranch Kluster Wild Goose Timber Harvest EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA- Little K Forest Management EA (DOI-BLM-ORWA- CX/EA Name, ePlanning # N020-2017-0006-EA) N020-2019-0011-EA)

Land Use Allocation(s) Harvest Land Base Harvest Land Base

County Polk Polk Proposed Harvest Type Regeneration Regeneration Anticipated Acreage Involved 156 266

Anticipated Volume (MBF) 7,235 MBF 6,607 MBF

NEPA Document Type and Status EA completed EA completed, FONSI in progress Decision Status (DR or DNA/DR) DR to be completed Spring 2021 DR to be completed Summer 2021 and date

25 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 7: Timber Sales for the Northwest Oregon District / Salem SYU - Fiscal Year 2021 (Continued)

Tillamook Field Office FY 2021 Timber Sale Name The Sentinel Klutch Play North Yamhill Timber Management Project EA North Yamhill Timber Management Project EA (DOI- CX/EA Name, ePlanning # (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N040-2018-0006-EA) BLM-ORWA-N040-2018-0006-EA)

Land Use Allocation(s) Harvest Land Base, Riparian Reserve Harvest Land Base, Riparian Reserve

County Yamhill Yamhill

Proposed Harvest Type Regeneration/Thinning Regeneration/Thinning

Anticipated Acreage Involved 295 353 Anticipated Volume (MBF) 8,418 MBF 10,000 MBF NEPA Document Type and Status EA completed EA completed Decision Status (DR or DNA/DR) DR expected March 2021 DR expected June 2021 and date

26 Northwest Oregon District Planning Update – Winter-Spring 2021 Table 8: Timber Sales for the Northwest Oregon District - Eugene SYU - Fiscal Year 2021 Siuslaw Field Office FY 2021

Timber Sale Name Pucker Up CX/EA Name, ePlanning # N126 LSR Landscape Plan (DOI-BLM-ORWA-N030-2018-0022-EA) Land Use Allocation(s) Late Successional Reserve and Riparian Reserve County Lane Proposed Harvest Type Thinning Anticipated Acreage Involved 324 Anticipated Volume (MBF) 8,049 MBF NEPA Document Type and EA completed Status Decision Status (DR or DR expected to be signed in Summer 2021 DNA/DR) and date Upper Willamette Field Office FY 2021

Timber Sale Name Buckshot Happy Trails Shotcash Timber Management EA (DOI-BLM- Shotcash Timber Management EA (DOI-BLM- CX/EA Name, ePlanning # ORWA-N050-2018-0011-EA) ORWA-N050-2018-0011-EA) Land Use Allocation(s) Harvest Land Base Harvest Land Base County Lane Lane Proposed Harvest Type Regeneration Regeneration/Thinning

Anticipated Acreage Involved 232 253

Anticipated Volume (MBF) 8,652 MBF 11,542 MBF NEPA Document Type and EA completed EA completed Status Decision Status (DR or DR signed February 3, 2021 DR signed February 3, 2021 DNA/DR) and date