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Elk Creek Forest Stand Health and Fuels Reduction

County or Counties: Douglas

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation

Project Description
This strategy will help reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire by reducing fuel loads on non-industrial private forestlands that are currently highly susceptible to uncontrolled wildfires.  Forestlands and grazed forestlands have undesirable, overstocked structure which is impacting forest and soil health.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Brush Management (314)
  • Forest Management Plan (106)
  • Forest Management Design and Implementation Activity (165)
  • Fuel Break (383)
  • Woody Residue Treatment (384)
  • Firebreak (394)
  • Tree-Shrub Pruning (660)
  • Forest Stand Improvement (666)

Project Partners

  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
  • South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • 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. Application is for a forest management plan-state CAP.
  2. The existing stand is overstocked and/or understocked which has led to increased fuel loads, increased pest pressure and declining forest health.
  3. The planned implementation will include at least 2 or more conservation practices to address forest structure and composition.
  4. Project acres adjoin or have a shared property line with other lands that have been or will be treated by partners, private landowners or public land managers.
  5. The application includes practices that will control noxious or invasive brush and reduce volatile fuels.  Brush species typically include Armenian (Himalayan) blackberry, English hawthorn, and/or scotch broom.  Herbaceous weed species do not qualify.
  6. There are existing, maintained roads providing adequate access to the stand for management and fire protection.