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Upper Valley Timber Stand Improvement and Timber Sale
Region: Southern
ID: 5853
Project Status: Current
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Need for Project
Identified needs from the Upper Valley Landscape Improvement Project (UVLIP) include: * Reduce wildfire hazard * Improve forest health * Improve Forest resiliency * Stream Stabilization * Create new water sources to improve wildlife habitat and range resources A specific need for this portion of the UVLIP is to begin implementation and establish a working relation with partners to accomplish this specific project and future projects.
Provide evidence about the nature of the problem and the need to address it. Identify the significance of the problem using a variety of data sources. For example, if a habitat restoration project is being proposed to benefit greater sage-grouse, describe the existing plant community characteristics that limit habitat value for greater sage-grouse and identify the changes needed for habitat improvement.
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Objectives
Obtain clearances to allow * Thinning of excess vegetation and to improve and maintain desirable forest and woodland conditions such as growth rates, vigor, stocking, structure, species and age diversity. * Lessen risk of stand replacing fire by reducing ground and ladder fuels. * Reduce risk of fires on the Forest moving to private lands and damaging private structures and facilities, and conversely, to lessen the risk of fires on private land moving to the Forest. * Improve and maintain wildlife habitat and range resources.
Provide an overall goal for the project and then provide clear, specific and measurable objectives (outcomes) to be accomplished by the proposed actions. If possible, tie to one or more of the public benefits UWRI is providing.
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Project Location/Timing Justification (Why Here? Why Now?)
Project area is at risk of uncharacteristically large and severe wildfire and is at risk of wide spread unwanted fire effects that may have negative effects on forest, wildlife, range and cultural resources, water quality, and public safety.
LOCATION: Justify the proposed location of this project over other areas, include publicly scrutinized planning/recovery documents that list this area as a priority, remote sensing modeling that show this area is a good candidate for restoration, wildlife migration information and other data that help justify this project's location.
TIMING: Justify why this project should be implemented at this time. For example, Is the project area at risk of crossing an ecological or other threshold wherein future restoration would become more difficult, cost prohibitive, or even impossible.
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Relation to Management Plans
Project is consistent with the Dixie National Forests Land Resource Management Plan and is consistent with required associated management plans. Project also supports Habitat Restoration goals in the Boulder Mule deer and Elk Unit management plans.
List management plans where this project will address an objective or strategy in the plan. Describe how the project area overlaps the objective or strategy in the plan and the relevance of the project to the successful implementation of those plans. It is best to provide this information in a list format with the description immediately following the plan objective or strategy.
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Fire/Fuels
Area has been modeled using local information that indicates high probabilities of undesired fire effects. Modeling indicates there is a high likelihood of flame lengths ranging from 4 foot through 20 plus feet and the likely fire type is crown fire when modeled at the average fire season 50th percentile weather and greater.
If applicable, detail how the proposed project will significantly reduce the risk of fuel loading and/or continuity of hazardous fuels including the use of fire-wise species in re-seeding operations. Describe the value of any features being protected by reducing the risk of fire. Values may include; communities at risk, permanent infrastructure, municipal watersheds, campgrounds, critical wildlife habitat, etc. Include the size of the area where fuels are being reduced and the distance from the feature(s) at risk.
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Water Quality/Quantity
Project has been designed to avoid impacts to area intermittent streams. Treatments are designed to reduce risk of uncharacteristic wildland fire and resultant second order fire effects impacts to water resources.
Describe how the project has the potential to improve water quality and/or increase water quantity, both over the short and long term. Address run-off, erosion, soil infiltration, and flooding, if applicable.
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Compliance
The Upper Valley Landscape Improvement Project decision was completed and signed on October 25, 2017.
Description of efforts, both completed and planned, to bring the proposed action into compliance with any and all cultural resource, NEPA, ESA, etc. requirements. If compliance is not required enter "not applicable" and explain why not it is not required.
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Methods
The Dixie National Forest needs a Class III, pedestrian cultural resources inventory of up to 4,300 acres located in the Escalante Ranger District. The surveys will be completed in support of the Upper Valley Vegetation Improvement project. A Class Ill survey will require survey and reporting consistent with Dixie National Forest and Utah State Historic Preservation Officer. Standards, including 15m transects and documentation using Utah Archaeological Site Forms. The inventory will be completed utilizing the on-call contract administered by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Describe the actions, activities, tasks to be implemented as part of the proposed project; how these activities will be carried out, equipment to be used, when, and by whom.
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Monitoring
This contract will be monitored as specified within the WRI contract through completion of the contract. This project will follow the monitoring schedule established in the decision document for implementation activities.
Describe plans to monitor for project success and achievement of stated objectives. Include details on type of monitoring (vegetation, wildlife, etc.), schedule, assignments and how the results of these monitoring efforts will be reported and/or uploaded to this project page. If needed, upload detailed plans in the "attachments" section.
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Partners
UTDWR, UTFFSL, USFS
List any and all partners (agencies, organizations, NGO's, private landowners) that support the proposal and/or have been contacted and included in the planning and design of the proposed project. Describe efforts to gather input and include these agencies, landowners, permitees, sportsman groups, researchers, etc. that may be interested/affected by the proposed project. Partners do not have to provide funding or in-kind services to a project to be listed.
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Future Management
After obtaining clearances, this project, this area is planned to be thinned using mechanical methods to prepare the area for broadcast under burned to further reduce the potential for unwanted wildfire and to restore fire into a fire dependent ecosystem as a natural disturbance that maintains and/or increases resiliency and sustainability of the area.
Detail future methods or techniques (including administrative actions) that will be implemented to help in accomplishing the stated objectives and to insure the long term success/stability of the proposed project. This may include: post-treatment grazing rest and/or management plans/changes, wildlife herd/species management plan changes, ranch plans, conservation easements or other permanent protection plans, resource management plans, forest plans, etc.
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Sustainable Uses of Natural Resources
Thinning and prescribed burning will reduce the uncharacteristic accumulations of surface litter which will enable grass-forbs production resulting in increased forage availability and encourage ungulate dispersion.
Potential for the proposed action to improve quality or quantity of sustainable uses such as grazing, timber harvest, biomass utilization, recreation, etc. Grazing improvements may include actions to improve forage availability and/or distribution of livestock.
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