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Depository Grider Fire Recovery Project DEPOSITORY A 13.92: K 66/2x/REC. ..I )d States GRIDER FIRE Department of RECOVERY PROJECT Agriculture KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST Forest Service RECORD OF DECISION Pacific Oak Knoll Ranger District Southwest Siskiyou County, California Region AII' ~~~LP0 ~~~~~I.~~~~~~B;1' RECORD OF DECISION GRIDER FIRE RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT Klamath National Forest Oak Knoll Ranger District Siskiyou County, California INTRODUCTION Between August and October, 1987, fires burned approximately 260,000 acres of land on the Klamath National Forest. Of that, 7,283 acres burned in the unroaded portion of the Grider Creek drainage on the Oak Knoll Ranger District. The aftermath of these catastrophic fires demanded a prompt and massive recovery effort. Development and implementation of a project plan for the Grider Fire Recovery Area is part of that massive effort. In order to develop and select an effective recovery plan for the project area, two questions had to first be answered: (1) what recovery actions would most benefit the project area in terms of both short- and long-term recovery from fire impacts, and (2)what opportunities existed for the prompt recovery of fire-killed, stressed and dying timber. Since the project area is currently unroaded, additional data were necessary to determine the type of access options available for salvage and other recovery projects. The level of fire recovery and salvage activities would vary, depending on the kind and amount of access into the project area. To determine the environmental consequences of implementing the range of recovery project options available to the Forest Service, an environmental analysis was conducted in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This interdisciplinary analysis has been utilized as the basis for the difficult decision of selecting a project plan from the array of alternative proposals for the Grider Recovery Project. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) documenting this analysis process and the 8 alternatives considered in detail was prepared and released on September 15, 1988. After the public review and comment period, which lasted until October 31, 1988, the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was prepared. In response to public and management concerns, an additional alternative was developed and analyzed. The FEIS fully considers and discloses the consequences of 9 alternative recovery proposals for the project area. These estimates have been used to determine the type and extent of recovery activities that would be most appropriate for the project area. On April 7, 1989, the Pacific Southwest Regional Forester exempted the Grider Fire Recovery Project from the Forest Service administrative appeals process, pursuant to 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 217.4 (11). The FEIS was then released for a 30 day public review period on May 15,1989. This review time afforded the public the opportunity to review changes that had been made to the FEIS as a result of public response to the DEIS and further interdisciplinary team work. Since the publication of the FEIS, further modifications have been made to Alternative H-Modified. These changes will be addressed below. Current management direction for lands in the Grider Recovery Area can be found in the 1972 Multiple-Use Plan for the Oak Knoll Ranger District and the Pacific Southwest Regional Guide. Under the Multiple-Use Plan, the project area is presently classified as General Forest Zone, Water R - 2 - Influence Zone, and Travel Influence Zone. The Pacific Southwest Regional Guide gives direction for management of National Forest lands in Region 5. In addition to the Multiple-Use Plan and the Pacific Southwest Regional Guide, other pertinent management direction has been used. The sources of this direction come from updated management plans, guidelines, and handbook supplements such as the Pacific Crest Trail Management Plan, Dead and Down Material and Snag Management Guidelines, guidelines for Spotted Owl Habitat Areas, Recovery Plan Objectives for Peregrine Falcons. The purpose of these additional plans and guidelines is to enhance the Multiple-Use plan for multiple resource protection and enhancement. The Klamath National Forest is currently preparing the Forest Land and Resources Management Plan. This plan is required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA), as amended by the National Forest Management Act 1976 (NFMA). The NFMA allows the Forest Service to continue the management of units of the National Forest System under existing land and resource management plans until completion of Forest Plans. This decision on the Grider Fire Recovery Project EIS is being made prior to final approval of the Forest Plan. The urgency to rehabilitate the Grider Recovery Area, in order to protect its resources and to allow the capture of the burned timber values, demands the promptest decision possible for selection and implementation of a project plan. This decision could not have been delayed until after approval of the Forest Plan. The Grider Fire Recovery Project FEIS tiers to the Oak Knoll District Multiple-Use Plan for land allocation direction as well as specific management direction pertaining to the protection of fisheries, watershed, geologic stability, wildlife, soil productivity, etc. The information that has been gathered in developing this FEIS will be used in developing the EIS for the Forest Plan. This FEIS discloses environmental effects predicted to occur in the Grider Creek watershed analysis area for each alternative considered in detail. A certain degree of environmental impact from the 1987 wildfire is unavoidable under any alternative; some incremental effects in addition to fire impact are probable under any alternative implementation. A wide range of resource values and management activities can be affected, including cultural, fisheries, geology, recreation, oils, vegetation, visual and water quality, and wildlife values; and fire, fuels, and transp tation-s\ ;tem management activities. (For a detailed discussion of alternative effects, see Chapter IV of the =IS.) DECISION Based on the Grider Fire Recovery Project FEIS, it is my decision to select Alternative H-Modified, with the changes listed below, as the project plan for the Grider Fire Recovery Area. This record of decision documents my selection of the alternative and my rationale for the selection. The selected alternative is a modification of Alternative H-Modified as described in the FEIS. It is my decision to modify Alternative H-Modified in the following manner: 1. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed the Northern Spotted Owl for listing as a threatened species. Until the FWS determines whether the spotted owl should be listed, it is my decision to delete all harvest units within the 1,650 acre core area of the Rancheria Spotted Owl Habitat Area (SOHA). Those units are: 6075A, 6075B, 6076A, 6076B, 6077A, 6077B, 6078A, 6078B, 6079, 6190B, 6266, 6067, 6268, 6269, 6270, 6271, 6272, 6277, 6278, 6296, 6297. In addition, the following units were modified to eliminate harvest in portions of these units that were in the SOHA: 6279, 6280, 6281 B, 6296, 6297. This results in the elimination of approximately 5.1 MMBF of timber. In addition, approximately 1.8 miles of road have been eliminated from the SOHA which would have serviced these timber harvest units. SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY R - 3 3 5138 006517772 This deletion of harvest units completes the review of the Rancheria SOHA and designates it suitable owl habitat, removes it from the timber base and prescribes no harvest manage- ment for it. This portion of the decision will be reviewed if additinal tree mortality renders the habitat unsuitable and it is unoccupied by owls for 5 years. 2. An unstable land mass in the Limestone Bluffs area makes the construction and long-term maintenance of a portion of road 45N06Z more expensive than previously thought. Also, construction of this section of road could degrade water quality in Grider Creek. It is my decision to eliminate approximately 0.66 miles of this road in order to eliminate increased economic and resource impacts. As a result of this action, unit 80 will now be harvested by helicopter system rather than a conventional short-span logging system. 3. Lop and scatter of logging slash was proposed for 82 acres of perimeters of Streamside Management Zones (SMZ). In reviewing fuel treatments on similar sites in the Lower Copper Timber Sale, Oak Knoll Ranger District, Klamath National Forest, it has been determined that normal springtime burning practices combined with contour falling within the SMZ ade- quately meets resource objectives at a lower cost. It is my decision to remove lop and scatter as a mitigation measure from timber harvest units planned in the Grider FEIS. The Selected Alternative was developed in keeping with the Klamath National Forest Recovery Philosophy and Goal Statement: to return, if possible, the burned areas to either their former or potential biological and economic productivity - or to their best use based on existing land capabilities. The Selected Alternative will accomplish this goal through recovery activities, such as surface stabilization, timber salvage and reforestation of burned project-area land, retention of snags and down woody debris for wildlife needs. The Selected Alternative will retain Large Woody Debris and ground cover so to meet minimum and optimal soil cover guidelines in the
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