• Group-Select with Reserves - Small 

 openings up to 5 acres in size 

 would be created in the existing 

 stand to promote regeneration and/ 

 or release established 

 regeneration. Seedtrees would be 

 retained within group-select 

 openings. Improvement cutting 

 would be done between openings to 

 reduce stocking density, increase 

 the shade-intolerant species mix, 

 and remove trees that are at high 

 risk for timber-product value loss 

 and mortality. 



• Combination Clearcut with 

 Reserves/Commercial Thin/Group 

 Select with Reserves - This 

 treatment would vary across a 

 harvest unit, depending upon the 

 existing stand conditions. 

 Varying the prescription across 

 the unit would help break up the 

 openings and create irregular 

 shapes that emulate the variation 

 of natural disturbances across the 

 landscape. Areas consisting of 

 densely stocked lodgepole pine 

 stands would be prescribed as 

 Clearcut with Reserves harvests. 

 Portions of the unit treated with 

 the Group Select with Reserves 

 prescription (described above) 

 would create smaller openings with 

 larger quantities of seedtrees and 

 reserve trees present than would 

 be present in areas treated as 

 Clearcut with Reserves. 

 Commercial Thinning (described 

 above) would be prescribed in 

 portions of the unit with adequate 

 amounts of serai species and/or 

 vigorous, large diameter trees. 



MONITORING 



DNRC's timber sale administrators 

 would monitor and administer 

 harvesting and road construction/ 

 maintenance activities for 

 compliance with BMPs, the State SMZ 

 Law, any 124 and 3A permits, and the 

 SFLMP. The sale administrator would 

 also monitor harvesting operations 

 to ensure that the prescribed stand 

 treatment was occurring within each 

 harvest unit. 



Following harvesting activities in 

 the Dog/Meadow Project area, the 

 following monitoring would take 

 place : 



- DNRC personnel would likely audit 

 the project area for compliance 

 with the SFLMP; 



- DNRC specialists and a State-wide 

 BMP audit team may audit the 

 harvest units and haul roads in 

 the project area for BMP 

 compliance; 



- the harvest units would be entered 

 into DNRC's electronic calendar 

 recall system to schedule and 

 track needed slash disposal, site 

 preparation, planting, noxious 

 weed treatment, regeneration 

 stocking surveys, and 

 precommercial thinnings; and 



- postharvest stand characteristics 

 in the harvest units would be 

 recorded and updated in the SLI 

 database. Annual reconnaissance 

 reports done by Stillwater Unit 

 foresters would continue to be 

 compiled for the Dog/Meadow 

 Project area. 



Chapter II-Alternatives 



Page II -7 



