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Taylor-Klondike Wildfire Recovery

County or Counties: Josephine and Curry

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: Wind and water erosion - Sheet and rill erosion


Project Description
During the summer and early fall of 2018, The Taylor Creek and Klondike Wildfires had burned over 175,000 acres of federal and private forests in Curry and Josephine County.  The July 15 fire originated from a lightning strike in the Klondike Creek watershed, 9 miles southwest of Selma, Oregon.  This fire burned approximately 5,300 acres of private timber (including Non-Industrial Private Forest).  This strategy will provide assistance to private lands burned and also assist some lands immediately adjacent to burned areas to address resource concerns caused by the wildfire.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Brush Management (314)
  • Herbaceous Weed Control (315)
  • Conservation Cover (327)
  • Critical Area Planting (342)
  • Woody Residue Treatment (384)
  • Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490)
  • Pasture and Hay Planting (512)
  • Tree/Shrub Establishment (612)
  • Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)
  • Forest Stand Improvement (666)

Project Partners

  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Illinois Valley SWCD
  • Siskiyou Field Institute
  • My Southern Oregon Woodlands
  • NRCS Oregon
  • Private landowners

Screening Questions

  1. Is the application for implementation of conservation practices with burned acres? 
  2. Is the application for implementation of conservation practices on unburned acres but directly adjacent the burn area? 
     

Ranking Questions

  1. The applicant has a current forest management plan or similar that has been developed by Oregon Department of Forestry.
  2. Parcel contains soil with what rating of burn severity?
  3. Parcel contains soils with highest rating of High Severity.
  4. Parcel contains soils with highest rating of Moderate Severity.
  5. Parcel contains soils rated only as Low Severity.
  6. Proposed project proximity to streams?
  7. Proposed project location is adjacent to seasonal streams or directly up slope from perennial streams where the vegetation has also been removed.  There is no remaining vegetation to function as a filter for potential runoff.
  8. Proposed project location is not directly adjacent to a seasonal or perennial stream.  There is vegetation downslope that will act as a filter for sediment runoff.