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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST HQ
SANDY, OREGON
FSM 2200 – RANGE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 2200 – ZERO CODE
Mt. Hood Supplement No.:2200-2002-1
Effective Date: The Directive Manager completes this field.
Duration: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
Approved: GARY L. LARSEN
Forest Supervisor
Date Approved: mm/dd/yyyy
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by title and calendar year.
Post by document; remove the entire document and replace it with this supplement. Retain this
transmittal as the first page(s) of this document. The last supplement to this Manual was Mt.
Hood Supplement 2200-99-3 to FSM 2204.4.
New Document
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Digest: In order by code, summarize the main additions, revisions, or removal of direction
incorporated in this supplement.
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2205.3 – Coordination with Services and Activities.
MT. HOOD N.F.
Standardized Flagging and Paint Colors
1. Timber Sale Partial Cuts
a.
Boundaries -
b. Leave Trees c. Harvest Trees2.
Timber Sale Clearcuts
a. Boundaries -
3.
Blue Flagging. Blue Boundary Cards (R6-24-9)
Orange Flashers.
Blue Paint
Yellow Paint
Blue Flagging. Yellow Boundary Cards (R6-24-10)
Orange Flashers
Engineering
a. Road Centerline - Orange Flagging. Optional use of Red Triangle
Flashers
b. Road Clearing Limits - Red Flashers, optional use of Yellow Flagging.
c. Landings – Optional use of Green Triangle Flashers
d. Quarry Locations – Unstable areas etc. – Orange and White Flagging
tied together
e. Slope Stakes – White Flagging
4.
5.
a.. Sale Area Boundaries - Orange Boundary signs (R6-24-3). Orange
Flashers
b. Sale Subdivision Boundaries – Blue Boundary signs (R6-24-4), Orange
Flashers
Timber Sale Administration
a.
b.
6.
Waterbars Other -
Blue/White Stripe Flagging
Florescent Orange Flagging
Timber, Reforestation/T.S. 1.
a.
Planting Boundary – White Boundary Card (p24-27), Florescent
Chartreuse Flagging
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6.
Timber, Reforestation/T.S. 1 (Con’t)
b.
c.
d.
Precommercial Thinning Boundary – Yellow Boundary Card (P24-26)
Florescent Chartreuse Flagging, Optional Use of Green Flahsers
Christmas Tree Cutting Boundary - White Boundary Card (P24-27)
Florescent Chartreuse Flagging, Optional Use of Green Flashers
Christmas Leave Trees or Precommercial Thinning Leave Trees – Optional
Use of Blue Paint
7.
Stand Exam Plot Centers - White Flagging
8.
All traverse stations, reforestation survey plot centers, cruise plot centers, contract
inspection plot centers, and all plot centers except #7 – Florescent Pink Flagging
9.
Profiles - Florescent Green Flashers
10.
Reference Points (Start of profile, start of traverse, etc) – Aluminum Tags
11.
Reserve Trees (except shelterwood trees) - Reserve Tree Card (R6-24-2).
Optional use of Orange Paint.
12.
Genetic Tree Program - Orange Paint 3” wide
13.
Fire Management
a.
b.
c.
d.
Fuel Breaks – Red/White Polka Dot Flagging
Fires – Yellow Flagging
Other – Yellow/White Stripe Flagging
Fuel Sticks – Yellow and Blue Flagging together
14.
Safety Items – Red/White Stripe Flagging
15.
Land Surveys/Section Lines, etc - Red Flagging, Optional use of Red Paint
16.
Recreation, Wildlife, Range Management - Orange/White Candy Stripe Flagging
17.
Other Needs - Colors that do not conflict with any of the previously listed colors or any
two different colored flags hung together, i.e., Red and Yellow, etc.