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Beaver Ranger District Fact Sheet United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest, Beaver Ranger District Beaver Ranger District Fact Sheet History: • January 24, 1906: Beaver Forest Reserve of 261,593 acres established by President Theodore Roosevelt. • June 18, 1908: Beaver and Fillmore Forests combined to form the Fillmore National Forest. • September 24, 1923: Fillmore National Forest joined to the Fishlake National Forest with headquarters in Richfield. Today the Fishlake National Forest has four ranger districts: Beaver, Fillmore, Fremont River and Richfield Table 1. Beaver Ranger District County Acreage County Approximate Gross Acreage Beaver 138,805 Garfield 3,344 Iron 2,291 Millard 4,997 Piute 115,538 Sevier 40,130 Total 305,105 Figure 1. Big Flat Guard Station 1932 Private inholdings total approximately 13,036 acres Fuels: Beaver Ranger District Fuels programs totals: 12,060 Avg. Cost $1,200-$3,000 per acre acres Mechanical Avg. Cost $25-$200 per acre Prescribed Fire 36,557 acres Total 48,637 acres treated Table 2. 2017 Fuels reduction projects dollars spent State of Utah Department State of Utah Division of Beaver Ranger District of Natural Resources Forestry Fire and State Lands Fuels Program (UWRI) (CAT Fire) Figure 2. Prescribed Fire $124,106 $80,000 $762,068 Big Cove 2016 TOTAL: $966,174 Range: The Beaver Ranger District is divided into nine allotments. Each allotment, has been divided into several pastures. Long-term allotment management plans, coupled with annual operating plans insure livestock use is appropriately assigned to each pasture in order to provide protection to all associated resources. Table 3. 2017 Allotment Management Allotment Livestock # Permittee # Circleville 359 4 Joe Lot/Fish Creek 784 2 Cottonwood 30 1 Marysvale 147 1 North Beaver 225 2 North Indian 614 6 Pine Creek- Sulpherbeds 565 5 South Beaver 520 3 Ten Mile 160 1 Totals 3,404 25 Figure 3. Grazing -Ten Mile Recreation: Improved facilities on the Beaver Ranger District: • 10 campgrounds o Management partners include Beaver County, Utah State Parks, High Country Recreation, Circleville City • 19 restrooms • 7 water systems • 1 guard station Figure 4. Beaver Ranger District Motorized Trends 90 Wades Cyn 80 Tushar 70 Deer Cr. Mill Cr. 60 50 40 30 Triggers / Day 20 10 0 This chart demonstrates the motorized use along key trails of the Paiute System on the Beaver Ranger District. This data is measured by dividing the total counter triggers by the counter operational days, which gives triggers per day. These four benchmark counters give a good representation of the use and how that use has fluctuated over the years. • The Tushar/Kimberly area has an annual average of 40,000 plus triggers. • The Circleville mountain area has an annual average of 24,000 plus triggers. • It is conservatively estimated that in 2016 these riders spent in excess of $32,000,000 in the many small businesses in the 19 communities in five rural counties along the many miles of this “world famous” interconnected motorized trail system. USDA Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest, Beaver Ranger District, September 2017 2016 Trail Maintenance 285 254 141 132 Motorized Maintained Horse and Maintained Trail Motorized Foot Trail Horse and Trail Foot Trail Figure 5. Trail Maintenance – Big Twist Miles of trail on the Beaver Ranger District Timber: Overall, the harvest activities on the Fishlake National Forest generate approximately 5,000 to 7,000 ccf (hundred cubic feet) or 2.5 to 3.5 mmbf (million board feet) of timber volume each year. This is enough lumber to build approximately 165 average size three-bedroom houses and enough firewood for 4,700 families. Table 4. Beaver Ranger District Timber Volume in CCF. Timber Product 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Fuelwood Volume 424 336 405 497 355 378 330 338 286 276 524 Timber Volume Sold 2400 2190 1793 1315 2261 906 4 2437 504 1772 33 Timber Volume 903 - - - - 1666 2251 - 5778 - 4647 Offered- Not Sold Total Volume 3727 2526 2198 1812 2616 2950 2585 2775 6568 2045 5204 Forest products sold in 2017 to date: • 441 Christmas Trees • 200 Limbs and Boughs • 134 Wood Permits • 160 Poles • 100 Posts • 300 lbs. seed Figure 6. Timber Harvest – Indian Creek Miscellaneous Facts: • Within Beaver Canyon there are three hydroelectric power plants. • Four spring sites provide culinary drinking water for local communities. • The “Big Tree”, a ponderosa pine, is the largest registered in Utah and second largest in the United States. • The highest Point on the Fishlake National Forest is found on the Beaver Ranger District: Delano Peak- 12,169’. Further Reading: www.fs.fed.us or www.fs.usda.gov/fishlake/ For more information about the Beaver Ranger District, please contact Kathy Johnson, [email protected]. USDA Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest, Beaver Ranger District, September 2017 United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest, Beaver Ranger District Beaver Ranger District Fuels Program Cory Norman Fuels: Combustible vegetation in the wildland. Fuels Management: Act or practice of controlling flammability and reducing resistance to control of wildland fuels through mechanical, chemical, biological, or manual means, or by fire, in support of and management objectives. What is the purpose of “Fuels Management”? • Manipulate either mechanically or with prescribed fire the vegetation in a given area in order to modify the expected and predicted fire behavior to reduce the negative results of an unwanted wildfire. o Being able to modifying the fire behavior in a given area allows for initial response resources (Fire Crews) to have decision space and time in managing a wildfire while reducing exposure to unsafe situations and conditions. Mechanical work is completed by forest crews or contractors. Prescribed Fire implementation includes techniques such as hand drip torch and aerial ignition. Cost of Doing Business: On average the cost to implement a mechanical treatment is approximately $1,200 - $3,000 an acre and sometimes higher depending on the treatment type. Prescribed burning costs from $26 - $45 an acre for hand ignitions, and $100 - $200 an acre for aerial ignition. In 2017 on the Beaver Ranger District a total of $966,174 was spent on fuels reduction projects. State of Utah Department of Natural State of Utah Division of Forestry Fire Beaver Ranger District Fuels Resources (UWRI) and State Lands (CAT Fire) Program $124,106 $80,000 $762,068 TOTAL: $966,174 Accomplishments: On average for the last 16 years the Beaver Ranger District Fuels Program has treated 3,132 acres per year for an approximate total of 50,000 acres of either mechanical or prescribed fire “fuels management.” Acreage Breakdown 2002 – 2017 by Treatment Type: RX Fire Mechanical 36,557 12,060 Mature Aspen Stand Early Stages of Conifer Encroachment Later Stages of Conifer Encroachment Wildland Fire is important for maintaining healthy forests. In addition to fuels reduction, prescribed fire is a tool that can be used to meet other objectives such as aspen regeneration, wildlife habitat improvement, and range betterment. Post Disturbance Aspen Suckering Disturbance Stimulates Aspen Suckering Aspen Decline as Conifer Dominates Allowing fire to play its natural role on the landscape, whether it is a natural ignition managed to achieve multiple objectives or a management ignited prescribed fire, is a way to create species and age class diversity. This diversity helps to maintain a healthy forest, and also provides fire managers with more decision space and time when an unwanted wildfire occurs. *All photos taken on the Beaver Ranger District For more information about the Beaver Ranger District Fuels Program, please contact Kathy Johnson, [email protected]. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest, Beaver Ranger District Timber Stand Improvement: LRII Andrew Orlemann The Little Res II Project: During the winter of 2014-2015, the staff of the Beaver Ranger District (BRD) identified a need to reduce forest stand densities in the vicinity of Little Reservoir. From a silvicultural perspective, the proposal was needed because BRD forest stands are, generally speaking, converting from relatively rare and highly valued tree species such as ponderosa pine and Douglas fir—which were historically dominant—to less desirable mixes of white fir, juniper, and mountain mahogany. As a result, the district proposed—and is currently implementing—a timber stand improvement project. A stand improvement is an intermediate treatment made to improve the composition, structure, condition, health, and growth of forest stands. Little Res II is not a Fuels Project: Little Res II is not solely a fuels project; Little Res II is a timber stand improvement project. Little Res II was designed to meet three Fishlake Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) goals: Restore and maintain ecosystems, consistent with land uses and historic fire regimes, through wildland fire use and prescribed fire; Maintain tree species diversity; Prevent and control insect infestation and disease. As a result, Little Res II is an “integrated” project that meets the needs of both forest managers and fuels managers (Table 1). Table 1. LRII Benefits across Program Areas. Treatment Forestry Benefits Fuels Benefits Non-commercial Removing adder fuels; enhancing fire resistant Improving species diversity; reducing forest density tree cutting species Prescribed fire Creating suitable conditions for early seral species Consuming fuel under managed conditions Little Res II is not a Forest Service Project: Little Res II is not solely a Forest Service project; Little Res II is an interagency project. From its inception, Little Res II has been supported at the state and local levels by a number of partners. At this time the BRD has involved individuals from the Rocky Mountain Research Station, the Regional Office, the Washington Office (WO), the Utah Governor’s Office, and the Utah Office of Forestry Fire and State Lands (Figure 1).
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