Alternate Plans Hardwood Commission Meeting June 29,2005

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Alternate Plans Hardwood Commission Meeting
June 29,2005
Mary McDonald 360-902-1415 mary.mcdonald_at_wadnr.gov
www.dnr.wa.gov/sflo
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Small Forest Landowner Office in Olympia

• Manager- Mary McDonald
• Grant Writing and Outreach-Kirk Hanson
• Forestry Riparian Easement ProgramDan Pomerenk
• Alternate Plans Larry Dominguez
• Family Forest Fish Passage Program Scott Potter

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Small Forest Landowner Office (SFLO) in the Field
Pacific Cascade North Chehalis -Rick Kuykendall
Pacific Cascade South Castle Rock Teri
Lysak Olympic Forks -Ritch Wood Northeast
Colville -Steve DeCook Northwest Sedro Woolley
-Boyd Norton Southeast Ellensburg -Joe Weeks
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What the SFLO Does

• Alternate Plans

• Forestry Riparian Easement Program

• Family Forest Fish Passage Program

• Seek External funding for Programs

• Technical Assistance

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How many small forest landowners are
there?Statistics

• Number of small forest landowners at
  least 22,000
• Number of small forest landowner acres as much
  as 4.2 million

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Alternate Plans
Site-specific Management Opportunities
Provides flexibility with the state forest
practices rules
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Alternate Plans
Common Scenarios
Hardwood Conversion (22)
Individual Group Tree Selection (11)
Overstocked Stand (11)

• Others
• Reverse in slope away from RMZ
• Imminent Mortality within RMZ

Forest Health (10)
Mixed Stand Management (5)
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Alternate Plans
Parameters

• Must meet the resource protection goals and
  address the 5 riparian functions required by the
  forest practices rules

• 3-5 year forest practices application

• Plan expires with application

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Riparian Functions

• Bank stability
• Recruitment of Woody debris
• Leaf litter fall and nutrients
• Sediment filtering
• Shade

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Alternate Plans
Process

• Landowner meets with SFLO forester

• Landowner drafts Plan

• Pre site visit
• Landowner submits Plan/FPA
• I.D. Team meeting

• Approval/Disapproval
• Conditions may apply
• Approved within 30-45 days

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Alternate Plans
Templates
Templates simplify Alternate Plan process by
recommending management prescriptions for common
scenarios

• Westside Overstocked Stand approved 11/04
• Eastside Riparian Imminent Mortality (work in
  progress)

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Application Success Rate

• 52 Alternate Plans Approved 01-05
• 76. approved on first submittal
• 12.5 disapproved
• 6 withdrawn, no re-submittal
• 6 withdrawn, resubmitted
• (random sample, 52 applications)
• R. Gootee, Washington State University, In
  progress

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Alternate Plan Hardwood Conversion

• How to ensure your alternate plan is successful
• Not in CMZ
• Written Prescriptions match field marking
• Short term/long term riparian functions
• surprises id team

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Observations on an Alternate plan
Arkansas Creek, Cowlitz County

• Alternative harvest restrictions
• Economic benefit to landowner
• Protection to public resources /-
• Site Prep -
• Reforestation -

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Hardwood Conversion Temperature Modeling Project

• Purpose collect information for Template for
  Hardwood Conversions
• Dept. of Ecology proposed using existing data vs.
  CMER hardwood study

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Model exercise

• Assumptions
• Harvest on one side of stream
• Existing data
• 30 no harvest buffer
• Sensitive stream
• Variable lengths 500-1500

• Questions
• 1) Effects of variable length harvests on temp.
  sensitive streams
• 2) If the temp. is affected how much shade is
  required downstream for the temp. to recover?

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Goal is to complete Model by January 2006,then
use this information to develop template
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Small Forest Landowner Office

• Olympia Main Office
• PO Box 47012
• Olympia, WA 98504-7012
• 360-902-1391
• sflo_at_wadnr.gov
• www.wa.gov/dnr/sflo