Beaver Creek Salvage Timber Sale and Other Restoration Projects, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Union County, Oregon

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The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a set of proposals to implement a salvage timber sale and several other related restoration and rehabilitation projects within the Beaver Creek Project Area. The EIS will tier to the 1990 Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, which provides the overall management direction for the area. The Forest Service proposed action will be consistent with the Forest Plan. The proposed projects are primarily located with the Beaver Creek Municipal Watershed in the Beaver Creek, West Fork Beaver Creek, and Beatty Creek drainages on the La Grande Ranger District, approximately 15 air miles south and west of La Grade, Oregon. The project area consists of 16,000 acres. The following activities are proposed: (1) Salvage of dead and down trees to reduce fuel loadings, harvest of other trees to improve stand health and vigor; (2) development of associated road systems; (3) construction of a reduced fuel corridor system; (4) exchange of a low quality stand of allocated old growth for another stand of high quality old growth; (5) completion of structure protection measur