HFQLG
Project Evaluation Form
Project Name: South Station______
Forest: Lassen_
Project Type: DFPZ________
Ranger District: Hat Creek____
Date: September 26, 2006___
Attendance:
AgencyPublic- Linda Blum (QLG)
USFS- Laurie Tippin (Forest Supervisor), Carrie Christman (Acting District Ranger), Mary Price (NEPA Planner),
Debbie Mayer (Fuels), Boyd Turner (Wildlife Biologist), Robert Sullivan (Supervisory Wildlife Biologist), Rich
Coakley (District Silviculturist), Kym Ganz (Sale Prep & Planner), Naomi Brown (Sale Prep), Colin Dillingham
(HFQLG Monitoring Team Leader), Dave Evans (Forest Silviculturist), Rhonda Barnhart (Sale Administrator),
John Colby (Fuels), Tamara Schmidt (HFQLG Public Affairs Specialist), Karen McKim (Sale Prep), John Newkirk
(Sale Prep)
Project completed by: Timber Sale & Service Contract_______ Date completed: _2005 & Future_______
Treatments
Predicted
Actual
Thin from below
(Selected Alternative 4)
5,500 acres
Manual Thinning
20 acres
4,145acres (75%)
This includes Timber Sale (1,391 acres), Service Contracts
(2,554 acres), and Fuelwood (200 acres).
Not completed yet
Machine Piling and
Burning
Plantation Treatment
Underburning
120 acres
Not completed yet
760 acres
492 acres (64%).
10,580
2,991 **
acres
(28%)
30 acres
30 acres
Aspen Release
**Some units were underburned under Rim Project. These stands will be ready to be burned again
by the time the timber sale is completed.
Quantification of Existing Conditions (Pre-Treatment) and PostTreatment Conditions:
Forest Structure
Unit 7: Pre-Treatment and Post-Treatment Conditions as compared to
Desired conditions as identified by the South Station EA – Alternative 4,
Predicted Effects
Units #7 (General
Forest)
Trees Per Acre
Mean Diameter (in)
2
Basal Area (ft /ac)
Canopy Cover
Pre-Treatment
Conditions
EA: Alternative 4,
Predicted Effects
339 tpa
10.2” dbh
193 ft2/ac.
74 tpa
15.6 “ dbh
34%
2
90 ft /ac.
32%
PostTreatment
Conditions
78 tpa
16.4 “ dbh
2
110 ft / ac.
35%
(Dominant/Codominant)
Canopy Cover (%)
Average Spacing (ft)
64%
11
Attribute
Objective
Silviculture
Residual
Stand Density
Silviculture
Canopy Cover
To reduce the
basal area to 90
square feet per
acre
Reduce to 32%
Silviculture
Trees per
Acre
Wildlife
No Issues
Fuels
Resource Area
32%
24 ft.
Source of
Objective
36%
23 ft.
Degree
Met
Comments
EA
Yes
Reduced from 193
to 110 square feet
per acre
EA
Yes
Would reduce from
64% to 36%
Reduce to 74
trees per acre
EA
Yes
When project
implemented,
would reduce from
339 to 74 trees per
acre
Surface Fuels
Reduce
EA
Treatment
Proposed
Plantation not
treated yet
Silvicutlure/Fuels
Plantation
Management
Reduce wildfire
threat
EA
Future
Proposed
Treatment
Hydrology/Soils/Botany/
Heritage
No Issues
Shortcomings and Successes:
In Cabin Fire plantation, 2 factors limiting the growth of trees in the plantation are historical windrowing which
damaged top soil and seedling source resulting in poor growth rate of trees. The seed source was not site specific
or seed zone specific (which is how we obtain our seeds/seedlings today).
Follow up actions:
Implement the project.
Discussion revolved around ability to mark additional volume in a sold timber sale. It appears that Mt., Hough
Ranger District and Hat Creek Ranger District have different opinions on how we can allow additional volume in
a sold timber sale. Follow-up discussion between contract sale administrators and forest silviculturists to resolve.
Frank Stewart should also be included in this discussion.
Acting District Ranger: __/s/ Chris O’Brien_____________________
Date:
November 06, 2006___