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Forest Management Planning

County or Counties: Benton, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Yamhill, Washington, Tillamook, Polk, Multnomah, Marion, Columbia, Clatsop, Clackamas 

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: Degraded plant condition - Plant structure and composition, Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation, Terrestrial habitat - Terrestrial habitat for wildlife and invertebrates

Project Description
The Forest Management Planning CIS is an opportunity to write forest management plans and develop shelf-ready projects to then create CISs on, based on common resource concerns and prioritized areas. By having identified landowners, the Natural Resources Conservation Service will be in a better position to collaborate with other agencies and leverage other resources as they become available. This type of planning strategy will position western Oregon for stronger national incentive programs and position forest landowners in a better position for more streamlined conservation.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Forest Management Plan (106)
  • Forest Management Design and Implementation Activity (165)
  • Forest Management Assessment (223)

Project Partners

  • Technical Service Providers
  • Small Woodland Association
  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • NRCS Oregon
  • Private landowners

Application Questions
NRCS uses prioritization questions to evaluate applications for this initiative. See the list of workload prioritization questions on the Oregon EQIP page. Ranking questions below will also apply.

Ranking Questions

  1. Is the property within a current CIS boundary?
  2. Is the property within an identified area for future prioritization such as a planned CIS, RCPP, or Joint Chiefs?

ACT NOW Funding
NRCS Oregon will be utilizing ACT NOW to process conservation applications in two ranking pools to deliver a conservation product faster. ACT NOW allows NRCS to immediately approve and obligate a ranked application in a designated ranking pool when an eligible application meets or exceeds a State-determined minimum ranking score. This means no longer having to wait for all applications to be reviewed and preapproved in a ranking pool.

Application Cut Offs: #1 – 11/29/2024; Application Cut Off #2 – 2/7/2025
Ranking Score Threshold – 99 pts