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2000 Annual Program Summary for the Coos Bay District 2000 ANNUAL PROGRAM SUMMARY And Monitoring Report for the 1300 Airport Lane North Bend, Oregon 97459 (February 2001) A Message from the District Manager This is the fifth Annual Program Summary prepared by the Coos Bay District. As in past years, we are reporting the progress made in implementing the decisions and commitments in the Coos Bay District Resource Management Plan Record of Decision. Included are fiscal year 2000 (October 1999 through September 2000) accomplishments, as well as summaries of accomplishments in previous years. Tables S-1 and S-2 summarize many of the resource management actions, direction, and accomplishments for fiscal year 2000 and cumulative accomplishments for fiscal years 1995 or 1996 through 2000. Once again, I am proud of the District accomplishments, and want to acknowledge the efforts by District personnel to implement the Resource Management Plan in a professional manner. I am especially proud of the efforts being made on the Coos Bay District to reach out to many partners to accomplish goals that could not be accomplished with single-agency or individual efforts. The Coos County Regional Trails Partnership and the restoration work being accomplished on public and private lands through watershed associations are excellent examples of local team work. Congratulations to the staff on a job continuing to be well done! The road to fully implementing the Resource Management Plan has been challenging the past couple of years because of court challenges and the preparation of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for amending the standards and guidelines for survey and manage, protection buffer, and other mitigation measures. With these amended standards and guidelines, I am confident that the Coos Bay District can proceed with full plan implementation to restore and enhance our natural resources, while producing a flow of forest products to support local communities. We hope that you find the information contained in this report to be informative, and welcome suggestions for improvement. If you have access, you can follow our activities through the year on our Internet web site at http://www.or.blm.gov/coosbay. Sue E. Richardson District Manager Table S-1. Coos Bay RMP, Summary of Renewable Resource Management Actions, Directions and Accomplishments RMP Resource Allocation or Management Practice or Activity Fiscal Year 2000 Cumulative Projected Accomplishments Accomplishments Decadal 1995-2000 Timber Practices 1996-2000 Other Regeneration harvest (acres offered) 0 1,914 5,800 Commercial thinning/ density management/ uneven-age 57 2,619 6,100 harvests (acres offered) Site preparation prescribed fire (acres) 106 1,494 7,600 Site preparation other (acres) 348 1,140 1,000 Prescribed burning (hazard reduction acres) 0 0 No Target Prescribed burning (wildlife habitat and forage reduction acres) 0 0 No Target Natural or artificial ignition prescribed fire for ecosystem 00No Target enhancement (acres) Stand Maintenance/Protection (total acres) 64,000 Vegetation control (acres) 2,655 23,803 56,100 Animal damage control (acres) 917 4,385 7,900 Pre-commercial thinning (acres) 3,458 11,796 34,800 Brush field/hardwood conversion (acres) 0 184 1,200 Planting/ regular stock (acres) 315 2,641 2,200 Planting/ genetically selected (acres) 319 2,641 5,400 Fertilization (acres) 0 22,740 12,000 Pruning (acres) 201 1,767 8,700 New permanent road const (miles/acres 1) 1.3/5.5 15.0/80.1 18.6/100 Roads fully decommissioned/ obliterated (miles/acres 1) 6.45/15.6 10.45/45.6 No Target Roads decommissioned (miles/acres 1) 14.1/34 66.5/319 No Target Roads closed/ gated (mile 2) 5.1 13.9 No Target Timber sale quantity offered (mm board feet) 2.9 116.4 320 Timber sale quantity sold (mm cubic feet) 0.5 180.1 530 Noxious weed control, chemical (sites/acres) 0 0 No Target Noxious weed control, other (sites/acres) 1,000 1,610 acres No Target Livestock grazing permits or leases (total/renewed units/animal 6/6/496 6/6/496 No Target unit months) 1 Bureau managed lands only 2 Roads closed to the general public, but retained for administrative or legal access Table S-2. Coos Bay RMP, Summary of Non-Biological Resource or Land Use Management Actions, Directions and Accomplishments RMP Resource Allocation or Activity Units Fiscal Year 2000 Cumulative Management Practice Accomplishments Accomplishments 1996- 1999 Realty, land sales (actions/acres) 2/3 3/5 Realty, land acquisitions (actions/acres) 0 1/71 Realty, land exchanges (actions/acres 0 1/75/320 acquired/disposed) Realty, Jurisdictional Transfer (Coquille actions/acres 0 2/5,420 Forest, USFWS Oregon Islands disposed Wilderness) Realty, CBWR Title Clarification actions/acres 1/192 1/192 disposed Realty, R&PP leases/patents (actions/acres) 0 1/129 Realty, road rights-of-way acquired for (actions/miles) 0 5/1 public/agency use Realty, road rights-of-way, permits or (actions/miles) 0 9/8.4 leases granted Realty, utility rights-of-way granted (actions/miles/acres) 1/0.25/0.1 8/53/83 (linear/areal) Realty, withdrawals completed (actions/acres) 0 5/2,810 Realty, withdrawals revoked (actions/acres) 0 0 Mineral/energy, total oil and gas leases (actions/acres) 0 0 Mineral/energy, total other leases (actions/acres) 0 0 Mining plans approved (actions/acres) 0 1/300 Mining claims patented (actions/acres) 0 0 Mineral material sites opened (actions/acres) 0 0 Mineral material sites, closed (actions/acres) 0 0 Recreation, maintained off highway (units/miles) 1/6 1/6 vehicle trails Recreation, maintained hiking trails (units/miles) 6/26 6/26 Recreation, sites managed (units/acres) 15/3,456 15/3,456 Cultural resource inventories (sites/acres) 0/0 109/252 Cultural/historic sites nominated (sites/acres) 0 0 Hazardous material sites (identified/cleaned) 3/3 15/15 Table of Contents Introduction ..................................1 Budget ..................................2 Timber Sale Pipeline Restoration Funds ..................................2 Recreation Pipeline Restoration Funds ..................................4 Recreation Fee Demonstration Program ..................................5 Challenge Cost Share Projects and Volunteers, Partnerships and Collaborative Projects ..................................5 Progress of Resource Management Plan Implementation Land Use Allocations - Changes and Adjustments Coquille Tribal Forest ........................................8 Land Acquisitions and Disposals ..................................8 Unmapped LSRs ..................................8 Aquatic Conservation Strategy Objectives Watershed Analysis ..................................9 Watershed Councils .................................11 Watershed Restoration and Jobs-in-the-Woods ...........................12 Late-Successional Reserve Assessments .................................14 Matrix 15 Percent Analysis .................................14 Program Accomplishments Air Quality .................................15 Water and Soils .................................16 Wildlife Habitat .................................24 Special Status Species/Habitat, Wildlife .................................28 Survey and Manage/Protection Buffer and Special Status Species (Plants) ..........33 Port-Orford Cedar .................................35 Fish Habitat .................................36 Special Areas .................................43 Cultural Resources Including American Indian Values .....................43 Visual Resources .................................45 Rural Interface Areas .................................45 Socioeconomic Conditions .................................46 Recreation .................................52 Forest Management .................................57 Silvicultural Practices .................................64 Special Forest Products .................................66 Noxious Weeds .................................68 Fire/Burning .................................69 Access and Right-of-Way .......................................70 Transportation/Roads .................................71 Energy and Minerals .................................72 Range Resources .................................72 Land Tenure Adjustments .................................72 Hazardous Materials .................................74 Cadastral Survey .................................74 Law Enforcement .................................75 Geographic Information System .................................75 More on the New Carissa .................................76 National Environmental Policy Act Analysis and Documentation ...............79 Coordination and Consultation .................................80 Research and Education .................................81 Monitoring Coos Bay District Implementation Monitoring .................................82 Findings and Recommendations .................................84 Province level implementation monitoring .................................87 Effectiveness monitoring .................................87 Resource Management Plan Maintenance .................................88 FY 2000 Maintenance Items .................................95 Third Year Evaluation .................................98 Survey and Manage EIS .................................99 Glossary ................................101 Acronyms/Abbreviations ................................107 List of Tables Table 1. FY 2000 Challenge Cost Share Contributions ............................7 Table 2. Coos Bay District BLM Acres Covered by First Iteration Watershed Analysis Documents .................................10
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