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Little Meadows Habitat Improvement Project
Region: Southern
ID: 5960
Project Status: Completed
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2024
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Final Methods
For the mastication portion of this project, aerial seeding began on October 4th, 2022. 368 acres were seeded with a mix of grasses, forbs, and shrubs and was completed by Chuck Hammond with a helicopter. Mastication began October 16th, 2022 and was done by Mountainscape Forestry with Kolob as the subcontractor with a total of three machines. Mastication was completed on all 368 acres by March 11th, 2023. For the lop and scatter portion of the project, work began on June 26th, 2023 and was completed August 4th, 2023. This work was done by 3B's Forestry and a total of 1460 acres were treated across BLM and SITLA lands. The work was completed within agreed upon timeframes and all contractors did a great job.
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Project Narrative
This project aimed to protect the Little Meadows community by reducing adjacent fuels. The project also looked to improve wildlife habitat by improving big game transition zones and improved winter range through seeding of desirable species and thinning of encroaching pinyon and juniper into sagebrush/mountain brush areas. Through the methods described above, the project improved a total of 1828 acres of BLM and SITLA lands while reducing heavy fuel loading adjacent to the Little Meadows community. The work was completed by 3B's Forestry for Lop and Scatter and by Mountainscape Forestry/Kolob for the mastication portions. Work was completed in a timely manner and to specs. Coordination and inspections took place throughout the project with a number of BLM and State parties involved. Pretreatment photo and vegetative cover transects were read and will be read again this fall and again at the 5 year post treatment mark. Initial two year out observations show promising results but cover data will be posted under documents as the sites are reread.
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Future Management
As stated above, vegetative cover sites were set up and read pretreatment. These sites will be read at the end of the growing season at the 2 year and 5 year out mark. The data will be added under documents as those sites are read. The project area will be rested from livestock for a minimum of 2 complete growing seasons in order to allow the seedlings to establish and set seed. The rest period may be extended if monitoring shows the seeding has not sufficiently established. Maintenance of the project will be completed in the future as needed. Currently, additional areas in the vicinity where project work is needed are being examined and may be added as a secondary phase of this project at a later time.
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Brandon Jolley
Submitted Time
08/29/2024 09:23:34
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