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Northern Harney Range and Forest Health Transition Communities

County or Counties: Harney  

Primary Resource Concern Addressed:

  • Degraded plant condition - Plant structure and composition
  • Degraded plant condition - Plant productivity and health
  • Pest pressure - Plant pest pressure

Project Description
This Conservation Implementation Strategy (CIS) will support vegetation treatments and pest management on private range and forest lands in or near the forest in northern Harney County.

Conservation Practices Offered

  1. Forest Stand Improvement (666)
  2. Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)
  3. Structures for Wildlife (649)
  4. Prescribed Burning (338)
  5. Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)
  6. Woody Residue Treatment (384)
  7. Brush Management (314)
  8. Wildlife Habitat Planting (420) 
  9. Critical Area Planting (342) 
  10. Silvopasture (381) 
  11. Range Planting (550) 
  12. Access Control (472) 
  13. Access Road (560) 
  14. Fence (382) 
  15. Firebreak (394) 
  16. Forest Trails and Landings (655) 
  17. Fuel Break (383) 
  18. Herbaceous Weed Treatment (315) 
  19. Spring Development (574) 
  20. Water Well (642) 
  21. Pumping Plant (533) 
  22. Livestock Pipeline (516) 
  23. Watering Facility (614) 
  24. Prescribed Grazing (528) 
  25. Pest Management Conservation System (595) 
  26. Riparian Herbaceous Cover (390)
     

Project Partners

  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Harney County Cooperative Weed Management Area
  • 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. Where will the proposed invasive annual grass treatments occur? 
    a) In the Front Ranch Medusahead Priority Area 
    b) Outside the Front Range Medusahead Priority Area , but within 3 miles from the Malheur National Forest
    c) Outside the Front Range Medusahead Priority Area and greater than 3 miles from the Malheur National Forest
    d) No annual grass treatments are planned within the Northern Harney Focus Area
  2. Where will the forest thinning or juniper thinning treatments occur? 
    a) Within or adjacent to a NEPA approved US Forest Service restoration project or a planned ODF Good Neighbor Treatment
    b) Within the Northern Harney Focus Area, but not within or adjacent to a NEPA approved US Forest Service restoration project or any ODF Good Neighbor treatments
    No forest thinning or juniper thinning treatments are planned within the Northern Harney Focus Area
  3. Is the project located within a watershed with a High or Very High Large Fire Potential?
  4. Will the project include forest thinning treatments in areas with mapped bark beetle damage?
  5. Which answer best describes the project? 
    a) No treatments are planned on forested acres 
    b) Treatments are planned on forested acres and there is an existing Forest Management Plan for those areas
    c) Treatments are planned on forested acres and there is not currently a Forest Management Plan for those areas