would be applied to Action 

 Alternative B {APPENDIX B - 

 STIPULATIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS) . 

 These stipulations and 

 specifications, incorporated into 

 the Timber Sale or Site- 

 Preparation contracts, are 

 enforced during contract 

 administration. Mitigation 

 measures that were designed to 

 reduce impacts on a particular 

 resource are also discussed in 

 Chapter III and each particular 

 resource appendix. 



Public comment was received 

 concerning use of clearcut 

 silvicultural prescriptions on the 

 project. To reduce the size and 

 impact of openings created within 

 the proposed harvest units, the 

 following mitigations were 

 included in the project design: 



• Harvest units would have 

 irregular edges, emulating 

 natural disturbances. 



• The clearcut prescription was 

 combined with other treatments 

 to allow for the retention of 

 individual trees and pockets of 

 trees to reduce the size of 

 created openings. 



• Units adjacent to open roads 

 would be buffered by the 

 retention of additional trees/ 

 vegetation along the road. 



Public comment was received that 

 proposed that natural spatial 

 distribution and occurrence 

 patterns be considered when 

 management decisions are made. A 

 landscape -level patch analysis was 

 completed in reference to age 

 class and covertype (project file 

 601, item 3) . Covertypes and age 

 classes, in reference to historic 

 conditions, were considered at a 

 landscape level (see APPENDIX C- 

 VEGETATION ANALYSIS) . 

 Connectivity, in reference to 

 wildlife habitat, was considered 

 in the wildlife analysis for this 

 project (see APPENDIX E-WILDLIFE 

 ANALYSIS) . The locations of 



harvest units were designed to 

 reduce fragmentation of large 

 continuous timber stands of a 

 particular age class or covertype. 

 Locating harvest units adjacent to 

 units that had been recently 

 harvested and increasing average 

 size of these harvest units to 

 better emulate natural disturbance 

 patterns was incorporated into the 

 design. 



Existing open and closed roads 

 would be used to access harvest 

 units. This would reduce impacts 

 to soil, water quality, and 

 wildlife habitat and reduce the 

 sale's development costs. 

 Approximately 0.3 mile of short 

 temporary spur roads are proposed 

 for improved yarding access. The 

 temporary roads would be reclaimed 

 to reduce road maintenance costs, 

 protect specific resources, and 

 prevent unauthorized motorized use 

 after harvesting activities are 

 completed. Surveys of existing 

 roads have been conducted in the 

 Dog Meadow Timber Sale Project 

 area to identify erosion and 

 surface-drainage problems that 

 could be improved or eliminated to 

 prevent sediment delivery to 

 streams. In a road-development 

 proposal, sediment-delivery 

 reduction and the implementation 

 of BMPs would be accomplished 

 through a road- improvement 

 package. Improvements would 

 include : 



- culvert replacements and 

 upgrades, 



- minor road relocation, and 



- installation of road and ditch 

 drainage features, such as drain 

 dips, open- top culverts, ditch- 

 relieving culverts, graveling 

 and grading road surfaces, 

 armoring existing culverts, and 

 using slash filters and sediment 

 fences near stream crossings and 

 culverts . 



The purchaser of the timber sale 

 would fund the road and BMP 

 improvements . 



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