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Grizzly Mountain Forest Resilience

County: Crook

Primary Resource Concerns Addressed: 

  • Air quality emissions - Emissions of greenhouse gases
  • Degraded plant condition - Plant structure and composition
  • Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation
  • Degraded plant condition - Plant productivity and health

Project Description
The goal of this investment is to increase forest health and resilience on non-industrial private forest land in the Grizzly Mountain area of northwest Crook County.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Forest Stand Improvement (666) 
  • Woody Residue Treatment (384) 
  • Brush Management (314) 
  • Fuel Break (383) 
  • Firebreak (394)

Project Partners

  • Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF)
  • Crook SWCD
  • USDA Forest Service (FS)
  • 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. The planned project area is directly adjacent to any forest thinning or hazardous fuels reduction projects that have occurred in the last three years?
  2. Project will remove dead and downed slash categorized as very high fuel hazard.
  3. The project is leveraged with project dollars from other State or local funding sources such as OWEB, ODF or SWCD.
  4. The project will incorporate additional practices to further enhance wildlife habitat.
  5. 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