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accessing portions of harvest units as well as 

 accessing other land areas. Such roads should be 

 designed to have minimal effect on fisheries 

 habitat contained within the buffer and crossings 

 should be designed to cross perpendicularly within 

 the buffer, insomuch as practicable considering 

 engineering limitations and design necessary to 

 protect fisheries. 



Yarding corridors not to exceed 25 feet in width, 

 should be permitted to cross buffer strips in 

 those limited instances where it is possible to 

 eliminate a road crossing of a stream by fully 

 suspending logs over the stream and adjacent banks 

 during yarding, but where it is infeasible to 

 suspend above the existing trees within the 

 buffer. Trees within the yarding corridor should 

 be directionally felled to eliminate impacts to 

 the streams from felling and yarding. These 

 yarding corridors should occur at an average 

 frequency not to exceed 1 corridor per 200 feet of 

 stream. The location of such corridors should be 

 developed through an interdisciplinary process, 

 with principal consideration given to fish 

 habitat. 



To facilitate yarding operations, and particularly 

 to obtain needed "lift" to get full or partial 

 suspension, rigging should be allowed to be placed 



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