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Milli Fire Veg/Salvage Analysis Milli Fire Vegetation United States Resource Department of Agriculture Specialist Report Forest Service Part 1- Milli Fire Overview and Spatial Statistics Part 2- Milli Salvage, Reforestation and May, 2018 Roadside Maintenance CE Project Areas Part 3- Milli Silvicultural Implementation Procedures Sisters Ranger District Deschutes National Forest Prepared by: William Brendecke Sisters Ranger District Sisters, OR Phone (541) 549-7712 /s/ ___William Brendecke____ Date __5/16/18___ Certified Silviculturist/ Forester 1 Summary- The following document is broken up into 3 parts. The first part is an overview of the lightning started Milli Fire that was first observed on August 11th, 2017 and was 100% contained by September 24th, 2017. This first part covers broad-based landscape statistics and provides background and context to Parts 2 and 3. Part 2 covers specific developed recovery projects and project statistics coordinating to the projects and Part 3 covers silvicultural marking guides/ procedures that would be utilized for project implementation. In this way this document serves to provide planning to implementation information 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Tables ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 PART 1- Overview analysis of Milli Fire .......................................................................................................................... 7 Milli Fire by Plant Associations .................................................................................................................................. 7 Milli Fire among recent past wildfires ....................................................................................................................... 7 Milli Fire by Northwest Forest Plan ........................................................................................................................... 7 Milli Fire by Deschutes National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan- Management Areas ..................... 8 Overview Milli Fire Burn Severity Analysis ................................................................................................................ 8 Patch Size Analysis- RAVG 3 and 4 .......................................................................................................................... 11 Milli Fire Landscape Overview of Fire Impacted Dead Tree Areas- Filtration Determination process ................... 12 RAVG and Field Verification Reconnaissance .......................................................................................................... 12 Maximum Extent Volume calculations From Milli Fire ........................................................................................... 12 Evaluation of Potential Salvage within NWFP Matrix land allocation................................................................. 16 Evaluation of Potential Salvage (outside of NWFP) ............................................................................................ 19 PART 2- Recovery Projects ........................................................................................................................................... 21 Milli Area Salvage Silviculture Report ..................................................................................................................... 21 Legal Locations .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Plant Association Grouping ................................................................................................................................. 21 Soils ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Unit Specific Information .................................................................................................................................... 22 Salvage Activities ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Post-sale activities .............................................................................................................................................. 23 Methodology....................................................................................................................................................... 24 Milli Fire Reforestation Project Summary ............................................................................................................... 25 Legal Locations .................................................................................................................................................... 25 Plant Association Grouping ................................................................................................................................. 26 Soils ..................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Planting- (3,952 acres) ........................................................................................................................................ 28 Natural Regeneration (500 acres) ....................................................................................................................... 29 Site-preparation (2,442 acres) ............................................................................................................................ 29 Site Preparation w/ planting: .............................................................................................................................. 31 Planting and Natural Regeneration w/o Site preparation: ................................................................................. 31 Site Preparation for Natural Regeneration: ........................................................................................................ 32 Milli Danger Tree Mitigation Project ....................................................................................................................... 33 3 Literature Cited ............................................................................................................................................................ 34 TABLE OF TABLES Table 1- Plant Association (grouping) within the Milli Fire Boundary ........................................................................... 7 Table 2- Overlap* of Milli among recent past wildfires ................................................................................................. 7 Table 3- Acres and proportions of Milli fire by NWFP and Non-NWFP ......................................................................... 8 Table 4- Northwest Forest Plan – land allocations ........................................................................................................ 8 Table 5- Deschutes National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan- Management Areas ............................... 8 Table 6- Entire Milli Fire RAVG burn severities .............................................................................................................. 9 Table 7. RAVG severities by plantations within the entire Milli fire area ...................................................................... 9 Table 8. RAVG severities among Riparian Reserves and RHCAs .................................................................................... 9 Table 9. RAVG 3 and 4 patch size analysis of the Milli Fire.......................................................................................... 11 Table 10- RAVG burn severities with the removal of Wilderness, Private land, Inventoried Roadless, Black Crater Fire ............................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Table 11- Total volume and acres by LRMP, NWFP, and PNV (including plantations) ................................................ 13 Table 12. Total volume and acres by LRMP, NWFP, PNV (Excluding plantations) ....................................................... 14 Table 13. Severity proportions within Matrix .............................................................................................................. 17 Table 14. Severity proportions within Matrix WITHOUT PLANTATIONS ..................................................................... 18 Table 15. East of Owl Line AND Deschutes LRMP RAVG information.......................................................................... 19 Table 16. EAST of OWL Line- Acres by Deschutes LRMP and RAVG severity (no plantations). ................................... 20 Table 17. Legal locations of salvage units .................................................................................................................... 21 Table 18. Plant association and Plant association (grouped) ...................................................................................... 21 Table 19. Corresponding Soil Resource Inventory (SRI) land types and acres ............................................................. 21 Table 20. Acres, volumes (Lidar derived), average elevations, slope majority, and aspect majority by units ............ 22
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