Upper Crooked River Forest Resilience
County: Crook
Primary Resource Concern Addressed:
- Degraded plant condition - Plant productivity and health
- Degraded plant condition - Plant structure and composition
- Air quality emissions - Emissions of greenhouse gases - GHGs
- Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation
Project Description
The goal of this project is to increase forest health and resiliency on non-industrial private forest
lands in the upper Crooked River area of central Crook County. Specifically, the project will
compliment and magnify work already completed under the Upper Crooked River Joint Chief
Landscape Restoration Partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and NRCS.
Conservation Practices Offered
- Forest Stand Improvement (666)
- Woody Residue Treatment (384)
- Brush Management (314)
- Prescribed Burning (338)
- Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)
- Fuel Break (383)
- Firebreak (394)
- Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)
Project Partners
- Crook SWCD
- Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF)
- US Forest Service (USFS)
- 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
- Is the planned project directly adjacent to any forest thinning or hazardous fuels reduction projects that have occurred in the last three years?
- Will the project remove dead and downed slash categorized as very high fuel hazard?
- Is the project leveraged with project dollars from other state or local funding sources such as OWEB, ODF or SWCD?
- Will the project incorporate additional practices to further enhance wildlife habitat?
- Describe the predominate condition of the land being treated with this contract. a) Disease or insect infestation and high-density hazardous fuel loads, b) Disease or insect infestation and moderate-density fuel loads.