Rolnictwo i żywność · 24.06.2003
Acker Fire Salvage, Umpqua National Forest, Douglas County, OR
The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Acker Fire Salvage within the Buckeye and Skillet/Emerson Facial 6th Field sub-watersheds on the Tiller Ranger District of the Umpqua National Forest. During 2002, the Acker Creek fire created about 1,600 acres of canopy mortality in both the Buckeye and Skillet/Emerson Facial 6th Field sub-watersheds. Of this total, about 600 acres of mature or late seral trees were killed or are dying. These trees represent a substantial economic value to nearby communities and ecological value to species that depend on large wood. The sub-watershed is about 120 miles south and east of Roseburg, and 120 miles north and east of Medford, Oregon. Proposed activities include the harvest of dead and dying trees through a commercial timber sale on about 350 acres in the matrix land allocation, and the planting of the harvested areas with a mixture of native conifers, hardwoods, shrubs and forbs. This proposal complies with the 1990 Umpqua National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan), as amended. The Wildfire Effects Evaluation Project (2003) disclosed the effects of the Acker Fire on the Buckeye and