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La Sal Creek Watershed Restoration
Region: Southeastern
ID: 5507
Project Status: Completed
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2022
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Final Methods
Several Project were proposed under this overarching project title, but the following sub-projects were the only one's that were implemented. USFS Projects: Beaver Creek Restoration The final methods used in this project were the following items: 1. Improve NFS road 4731 for approximately 0.70 miles in order to allow machinery to access to project site. This action also improved the road for recreational and hunting purposes. 2. Restored a 100 foot section of NFS road 4732 that crossed Beaver Creek by replacing road fill material. 3. Installed a culvert to protect aquatic habitat and to maintain access to recreationists and hunters. 4. Seeded areas of disturbance with native grass and forb seed. Fuels reduction (lop and scatter)- The fuels work was to be contracted by the DWR. The area had previously been chained and this contract was to maintain that treatment. This was to be completed by a hand crew with minimal soil disturbance.
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Project Narrative
USFS Projects: Beaver Creek - A section of Beaver Creek on the Southeast side of the La Sal Mountains had been seeing an increase in erosion/sediment displacement as a result of vehicles driving through the creek. After years of this action, the stream started to divert down the NFS road 4732 for approximately 100 feet, only exacerbated by the combination of water and vehicles traffic on the road prism. The goal of the project was to restore the eroded section of road to the original road prism, along with protecting the stream and aquatic species from vehicles by installing a culvert. The only other additions to the project were to improve NFS road 4731 in order for machinery to access the stream crossing at the junction of NFS 4731 Fuels reduction (lop and scatter): This work was contracted multiple times however the bids came back substantially higher than the money allocated for the project. The project was then contracted with a WRI# 5525 in an attempt to get a price that reflected the budget allocated for the project. The contractor worked 4 days completing only a portion of the project, they needed more money per acre to complete the project.
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Future Management
USFS Projects: Beaver Creek - The management of Beaver Creek and the associated crossing will be maintained through county and USFS road maintenance agreements. LSSC Deer Springs - USFS did not use the WRI-NEPA fund, but completed a CE for the 2185 acre LSSC Deer Springs Habitat project in-house. Implementation of this habitat improvement/fuels reduction Mx project will take place when funding is available. Fuels reduction (lop and scatter): The remainder of the polygon lends itself better to mastication due to the amount of fuel in the area both from previous treatments as well as what has grown back. With that, in future phases the area will be arc cleared and treated when the funding becomes available.
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TJ Cook
Submitted Time
09/16/2022 13:05:14
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