Goose Project Field Trip

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Goose Project Field Trip

• US Forest Service

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Introductions

• Who you are?
• Who you are affiliated with?
• Why are you here today?

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Objectives of Field Trip

• Visit 4 stands in the Project Area
• Discuss possible activities for the Goose Project
  Area
• Allow for ideas, input, and discussion to take
  place
• Be respectful of peoples suggestions and opinions

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McKenzie River R.D. Land Allocation
Note This does not include Riparian Reserves
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Goose Project Area Land Allocations
WNF LRMP As Amended
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Seral Habitat on F.S. Lands in the Goose Project
Area
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Age
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Early Seral habitat is more popular than you
might have thought.

• Analysis of wildlife on the Willamette National
  Forest found
• 14 species tied specifically to old growth
• 0 species tied specifically to mid seral
• 116 species generalists.use all stages
• 71 species tied specifically to early seral
• and edges

Source Cheryl Friesens Early Seral PowerPoint
Presentation
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Possible Objectives for the Goose Project Area

• Enhance structural diversity in stem exclusion
  stands to aid in wildlife habitat, and to
  increase stand health and vigor
• Increase early seral habitat on federal lands
• Accelerate late-successional conditions within
  Riparian Reserves and CHU
• Protect and maintain aquatic resources
• Reduce hazardous fuels in and around the Wildland
  Urban Interface
• Provide a sustainable supply of wood in support
  of the local and regional economy
• Reduce or eliminate the spread of noxious weeds
• Maintain or restore road conditions
• Evaluate the need for road (or road segment)
  decommissioning
• Enhance or maintain visual qualities along trails
  and Hwy 126/242
• Create a diversity of stand structure and age
  classes

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Possible Actions for the Goose Project Area

• Variable Density Thinning
• Increase large wood development
• Develop more complex stand structure
• Develop late successional characteristics
• Improve Stand health
• Sustainable timber production
• Create some early seral wildlife habitat
• Regeneration harvest
• Sustainable timber production
• Early seral wildlife habitat
• Mimic disturbance on small scale

• Gap creation for a scenic overlook on the
  Frissell trail
• Weed treatments
• Fuels reductions around the Wildland Urban
  Interface
• Natural Fuels underburn
• Restore fire on the landscape
• Create wildlife habitat
• Reduce fuels
• Decommission roads
• Storm proofing roads
• Maintain road structure

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Possible Treatment Stands
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Schedule
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Field Trip

• We will have 5 vehicles
• 5 people per vehicle
• Safety
• Tailgate safety
• Hardhats required (provided)