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 Appendix D. 



WATER QUALITY PROTECTION ON TIMBER SALES ON STATE FOREST LANDS 

 Erosion Control (from Timber Sale Agreement) 



1. Operations shall be conducted to prevent damage to raods, trails, 

 meadows, streambanks, lakeshores or other natural features of the 

 sale area. 



2. Tractors and other heavy equipment will not be operated in stream 

 courses except at designated crossings and as essential to construction 

 or installation of culverts and bridges. Debris resulting from logging 

 or construction operations which may affect the natural flow of any 

 stream course shall be immediately removed. 



3. Logs shall not be hauled, skidded, or yarded across stream courses 

 unless fully suspended. 



4. Tractor skidding will be restricted to use of winches wherever it 

 is necessary to remove logs from tin.ber felled within forest repro- 

 duction on boggy areas or streams. 



5. Equipment shall not be operated when ground conditions are such that 

 excessive damage will result to soil, vegetation, skid trails or 

 roads. 



6. The kinds and intensity of erosion control work shall be adjusted to 

 ground and weather conditions as directed by the forest officer in 

 charge. Erosion control shall be kept current immediately preceeding 

 expected season periods of precipitation and runoff, and maintained 

 as required throughout the contract period or extensions thereof. 



7. Where logging or road construction operations are in progress, but 



not completed, and before operations cease at the end of the operating season, 

 temporary erosion barriers, dips, water bars, or ditches will be 

 constructed to prevent erosion, as directed by the forest officer in 

 charge. 



