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Willamette National Forest 2010 Annual Report Willamette National Forest 2010 Annual Report Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region United States Department of Agriculture Gems of the High Cascades Welcome to Our 2010 Annual Report Recovery Dollars at Work in Our Communities Dear Friends, We are excited to share with you the tangible visitor information center. The new “green” benefits made with funding from the American administrative offices are “LEED Silver” and 2010! What a year! I have now worked on the Willamette for a full year and am Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The have an estimated increase of 50 years life enjoying the cycle of seasons and the many issues and opportunities that arise as Willamette National Forest put contractors to expectancy. LEED stands for “Leadership in we strive to manage this land for the “greatest good for the greatest number, in work in several Oregon counties repairing roads, Energy and Environmental Design. the long run”. I am privileged to be a part of this great story. building facilities, preserving recreation sites, Improving Roads The year began as it should, with our organization working to get out as many clearing brush and removing invasive weeds. The job-creating, forest-sustaining projects as possible. As a federal agency, we embraced the American Forest overlaps portions of Lane, Linn, Marion, Across the Willamette National Forest, $677,156 Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or Stimulus program. Using those funds and others, we improved Douglas, Clackamas and Jefferson counties. The of ARRA funds helped improve roads. Of those many miles of roads, built facilities, cleared brush, removed invasive weeds, improved campgrounds work accomplished with ARRA dollars supports ARRA dollars, $635,496 provided contract jobs and day use sites – all activities utilized a non-federal workforce to complete. Our employees put communities and forest health now and for for deferred maintenance work on bridges and together the contracts and in many cases administered the work, but our focus was on creating jobs for future generations. roads used by passenger vehicles and maintained others while accomplishing important forest work. for high clearance vehicles. If left unmaintained, Putting People to Work in Construction the water runoff and sediment from degrading We initiated a new approach to fire management. The Scott Mountain fire, located in the Mt road beds poses a threat to water quality and fish Washington Wilderness, and the Pyramid Butte fire, located in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness, presented habitat and creates public safety concerns. Crews unique situations and some opportunities for innovation. We had two fast-growing incidents in replaced road structures and improved drainage difficult terrain that eluded our early attempts to put the fires out while they were small. We could systems. They also replaced culverts to reduce the have chosen a traditional path – order up lots of firefighters and ask them to take managed risks to risk of future storm damage. aggressively suppress the fires. Instead, we saved dollars, reduced risk to firefighters and carefully watched as the fire did great ecological work in our wilderness areas. We had a contingency plan in Building Sustainable Facilities place, but Mother Nature cooperated and the onset of fall rains did the final job. We are also preparing for the future. Our climate change team is exploring how a changing climate Approximately $3 million of ARRA funds will alter our forest management options. Our outreach folks are looking for new ways to get kids and created 35 jobs and helped remodel the families out in the woods, and grow the stewardship ethic of all our visitors. Our employees are helping McKenzie River Ranger District administrative me define the right mix of work we need to achieve a forest that serves society’s economic, social and office located on Highway 126. Contractors resource values in the best possible way. I’d like to have that conversation with others – might you have remodeled the deteriorating administrative some time? Please call, and I’ll look forward to working with you as we move forward together. office creating a new environmentally green building. The project consisted of tearing down Meg Mitchell the deteriorating back sections of the old office Forest Supervisor and building a new office that compliments the visitor center front entrance built in 2001. Crews 3106 Pierce Parkway, Suite D $1.2 million in ARRA funds put approximately recycled a large percentage of the materials Springfield, OR 97477 18 contractors to work building bunkhouses at torn down. Phone: 541-225-6312 the Middle Fork and McKenzie River Ranger email: [email protected] Now, more than 25,000 visitors annually Districts. Crews built four sustainable and enjoy the state of the art interpretative energy-efficient bunkhouses to provide summer- Continued on back of Annual Report Expenditures, Receipts, Goods and Services RECREATION, LANDS, AND MINERALS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Recreation visits (2007 survey) 1,685,180 Forest Products Hosted recreation events & other permits 275 Million board feet timber offered for sale 72.880 Trails improved and reconstructed (miles) 503 Acres reforested 316 Trails maintained to standard (miles) 489 Timber stand improvement (acres) 4,166 Trail bridges reconstructed 4 Christmas tree tags sold 3,738 Mining & Geology activities administered 25 Firewood (cords) sold 3,314 Mineral Proposals processed 25 Thirteen students help restore fish habitat Water/Wildlife/Botany/Conservation Education Newly recorded or discovered heritage sites 34 in side channels of the McKenzie River. The Heritage acres surveyed 4,000 Restore wildlife habitat - prescribed burns, planting trees, 3,413 project is a partnership with the Willamette Volunteers remove fallen trees and debris native seeding, monitoring bird nest sites, & other work after fire to make trails safe and accessible Natural Resource hikes 32 (acres) National Forest Service, McKenzie Watershed Council, Freshwater Trust, and McKenzie and in the Waldo Lake Wilderness area. Heritage expeditions 1 Acres inventoried for Threatened/Endangered Species 9,010 Cottage Grove High schools. Heritage expedition receipts $8,090 Stream habitat improvement for aquatic species - added 214 The Forest implemented the Travel Management Rule. This decision large wood, planted riparian species, & removed invasive designates what roads and trails are open to which types of wheeled- species (miles) vehicle motorized use throughout the year. We completed the entire Stream monitoring of temperature & fish population (miles) 206 Forest. Motor Vehicle Use Map is now available free to the public. Watershed, restore soils & hydrologic areas (acres) 3,464 Watershed monitoring of soil & watershed condition (acres) 382 FIRE AND ENGINEERING Restore lake habitat - added large wood & dispersed site Number of wildland fires 167 restoration (acres) 202 Wildfires (acres) 3,875 Invasive plant treatment (acres) 5,164 Fire hazard reduction (acres) 182 The Willamette National Forest used an Conservation education presentations 1,416 Middle Fork Ranger District fire personnel innovative approach on the Scott Mountain Number of days on fire assignments 6,794 Conservation education programs/products 21 conduct a prescribed burn at Jim’s Creek Fire in Mt. Washington Wilderness that saved Administrative facilities maintained to standard 103 People reached with conservation education messages 71,000 located about 18 miles south of Oakridge. Miles of roads maintained for high clearance vehicles 589 dollars, reduced risk to firefighters, and Conservation education partner contributions Prescribed burns help improve forest health supported forest ecology. Miles of roads maintained for passenger cars 325 (in-kind & cash) $277,935 for plants and wildlife. 2010 EXPENDITURES Willamette National Forest Title II Dollars for Projects on National Forest Lands Restore wildlife habitat $13,355 Conservation education $19,000 American Recovery $ 8,162,151 $1,560,924 $738,259 Re-establish native species $38,005 and Reinvestment Act, FY 2010 $1,406,758 $277,520 $665,345 $250,111 $73,424 Control noxious weeds $112,730 $66,172 Secure Rural Schools (Title II) $2,538,517 Fuels management and fire prevention $118,060 Restore fish habitat $126,000 $379,665 Types of projects for 2010 Other project types $158,600 Other programs $ 27,780,127 $609,278 $121,193 $34,341 66 total projects (excludes fire suppression) Trail maintenance $234,220 FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY Infrastructure maintenance $256,290 10 11 12 10 11 12 10 11 12 10 11 12 Forest health improvement $319,790 Road maintenance $483,817 Lane Linn Marion Douglas { Watershed, restore and maintenance $749,260 Bountiful Service A student takes a water sample from the The Willamette National Forest is proud, and grateful, to host a dynamic group known as the High South Santiam River Cascades Volunteers. Under the leadership of Judy Mitchell, a retired Forest Service Wilderness as part of a hands-on as part of a hands-on Ranger, the group has completed over 21,000 hours of work, across 5 National Forests in 2010 – over activity to learn about water quality. half of that work was accomplished on the Willamette. The volunteers did all kinds of work: they surveyed, cleared and maintained miles of trails (in both winter and summer), did a variety of tasks for the seed research center in Cottage Grove, mapped locations of invasive weeds in preparation for treatment, adopted lakes for adjacent campsite cleanup, built
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