Eugene District 2002 annual program summary and monitoring report

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U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Eugene District Office
P.O. Box 10226 (2890 Chad Drive)
Eugene, Oregon 97440-2226 October 2003
Eugene District
2002 Annual Program
Summary and
Monitoring Report
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environmental and cultural values of our national parks and historical places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation.
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Annual Program Summary and Monitoring Report
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.1
Table 1 - RMP Summary of Renewable Resource Management Actions, Directions, and
Accomplishments.2
Table 2 - RMP Summary of Non-biological Resource or Land Use Management Actions,
Directions.3
BUDGET.4
Table 3 - PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES.5
Table 4 - O&C PAYMENTS TO COUNTIES.6
Table 5- Title II Eugene District Resource Advisory Committee.6
Table 6 - Recreation Fee Demonstration Program Statistics.9
Table 7 - Challenge Cost Share Projects - FY 2002. 10
ALL LAND USE ALLOCATIONS (LUAs).11
Table 8 - Realty Actions Affecting LUA Acreage.11
AQUATIC CONSERVATION STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION (ACS).12
Table 9 - Riparian Reserve Stand Treatments (# acres treated).12
Table 10 - Completed Watershed Analysis Areas.13
Table 11 - Summary of Non-flood Watershed Restoration Projects FY 2001 . 14
LATE-SUCCESSIONAL RESERVES.14
Table 12 - Late-Successional Reserve Stand Treatments.15
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AREAS.15
Table 13 - Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area Land Use Allocation Under The
Northwest Forest Plan.16
AIR QUALITY.16
WATER AND SOIL.17
Table 14 - Summary of Eugene District’streams on the Final 2002 DEQ 303(d) List.18
Table 15 - Community Watersheds in the Eugene District.19
WILDLIFE HABITAT.19
SPECIAL STATUS AND SEIS SPECIAL ATTENTION SPECIES (ANIMALS) .22
SURVEY AND MANAGE/PROTECTION BUFFER PLANT SPECIES.24
Table 16 - Total Number of SEIS Special Attention Plant Sites by Species Group.24
SPECIAL STATUS PLANT SPECIES.24
Table 17 - Total Number of Special Status Plant Sites By Species Group.25
SPECIAL AREAS.25
Table 18 - Wild And Scenic Rivers Status.26
CULTURAL RESOURCES.26
VISUAL RESOURCES.27
RURAL INTERFACE AREAS.27
SOCIO-ECONOMIC.27
Table 19 - RMP: Summary of Socio-Economic Activities and Allocations.29
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.30
RECREATION.30
Table 20 - Recreation Program Statistics.31
Table 21 - VOLUNTEERS.32
Table 22 - Fee Demonstration Program.33
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OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE MANAGEMENT (OHV). 33
DEVELOPED RECREATION SITES.33
DEVELOPED TRAILS.34
Table 23- Special Recreation Management Areas...35
EXTENSIVE RECREATION MANAGEMENT AREA (ERMA).35
TIMBER RESOURCES.36
Table 24-1.37
Table 24-2.37
Table 25-1.37
Table 25-2.38
Table 25-3.38
Table 26-1.38
Table 26-2.38
Table 26-3.38
Table 27-1.39
Table 27-2.39
Table 28 - Harvest Volume (mmbf) Offered EY 95-01.40
Table 29 - Regeneration Harvest Volume.40
Table 30 - Thinning and Density Management Harvest Volume (MMBE).41
Table 31 - Regeneration Acres.41
Table 32 - Thinning And Density Management Acres.41
Table 33 - EY 2002 Timber Sales.42
SILVICULTURE.42
Table 34 - Summary of Silviculture Treatments and Decadal Commitment.43
Table 35 - 1996 to 2002 Summary of Silvicultural Accomplishments.43
SPECIAL EOREST PRODUCTS (SEP).44
Table 36 - RMP - Summary of Special Eorest Product Actions and Accomplishments.45
Table 37 - Cumulative Summary Report of Negotiated Cash Sales Eugene District-EY 96-02.46
INTEGRATED NOXIOUS WEED MANAGEMENT.47
Table 38 - Integrated Noxious Weed Management.47
FIRE/FUELS MANAGEMENT.48
Table 39 - Eire and Fuels Management.48
Table 40 - Fire Management.48
ACCESS AND RIGHTS-OE-WAY.49
Table 41 - Reciprocal Right-of-Way Agreements.49
Table 42 - Rights-of-Way Agreements and O&C Road Permits.49
Table 43 - Roads (Decommissioned).50
Table 44 - Road Status in Key Watersheds.51
Table 45 - General Road Maintenance Accomplishments.51
ENERGY AND MINERALS.52
LAND TENURE ADJUSTMENTS.52
Table 46 - Land Tenure, Temporary Use Permits, and Trespass Cases.52
Table 47 - Land Exchange Land Status and LUA Changes.53
Table 48 - NO NET LOSS REPORT.53
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.54
CONSULTATION AND COORDINATION.54
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.54
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RESEARCH.55
EDUCATION.56
INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.56
CADASTRAL SURVEY.57
LAW ENFORCEMENT.57
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA).58
Table 49 - EAs Per Category for FY 1996 thru 2002.59
MONITORING.59
Table 50 - Sampled Projects, Fiscal Years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,2002.60
Eugene District
Table 51 - Carryover Projects, Fiscal Years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 . 61
GLOSSARY.63
Acronyms/Abbreviations.69
APPENDIX A SUMMARY OF PLAN MAINTENANCE ACTIONS SINCE 1995.71
APPENDIX B MONITORING REPORT - Program Level.77
Table 52- Recreation Area Management Plans.88
APPENDIX C MONITORING - Project Level Questions For FY 2002 . 93
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Annual Program Summary and Monitoring Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This document combines the Eugene District Annual Program Summary and Monitoring Report for
fiscal year 2002. This Annual Program Summary addresses the accomplishments of the Eugene District
in such areas as watershed analysis, Jobs-in-the-Woods, silviculture, wildlife, forestry, recreation, and
land tenure adjustments. It also provides information concerning the Eugene District budget, timber
receipt collections, and payments to Lane, Linn, Douglas, and Benton counties. The Monitoring
Report compiles the results and findings of implementation monitoring for fiscal year 2002 of the
Eugene District Resource Management Plan (RMP), which can be found at www.edo.blm.gov . The
Monitoring Report, which is a “stand alone” document, follows the Annual Program Summary in
Appendix B and C.
The Eugene District has reached out to many partners to accomplish goals that could not have been
achieved through single-agency or individual efforts. The restoration work accomplished on public and
private lands through watershed associations is an excellent example of local team work.
This “Annual Program Summary” gives only a very basic and brief description of the programs,
resources, and activities that the Eugene District is involved with. This report does give the reader
a sense of the enormous scope, complexity, and diversity involved in management of the Eugene
District public lands and resources. Although there are and will continue to be challenges that require
BLM to adapt and give our best, the managers and employees of Eugene District take pride in the
aceomplishments described in this report.
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Table 1 - RMP Summary of Renewable Resource Management Actions,
Directions, and Accomplishments
RMP Resource Allocation Cumulative 2002 Projected Decadal
or Accomplishments Accomplishments Practices
Management Practice or Activity 1996-2002
Regeneration harvest (acres offered) **2893 38 5,700
Commercial thinning/density management/ **4201 1012 7,300
uneven-age harvest - HLB
(acres offered)
Commercial thinning/density mgt. / uneven age 1008 73 N/A
harvest - Reserves (acres offered)
Timber Volume offered - HLB (MMBF) 154.3 13.0 333
Timber Volume offered - Reserves (MMBF) 16.7 0.9 N/A
Pre-commercial thinning - HLB (acres) 5,083 1,146 5,900
Brush field/Hardwood conversion (acres) 290 0 500
Site preparation (acres) ***1,686 156 4,300
Vegetation control, fire (acres) -0- 0 -0-
Prescribed burning (hazard reduction acres) 13 0 500
Prescribed burning (wildlife habitat and -0- 0 4,000
forage reduction acres)
Natural or artificial ignition prescribed fire for -0- 0 0
ecosystem enhancement (acres)
Animal damage control (acres) 3,216 96 6,000
Pre-commercial thinning (acres) Reserves 18.096 700 N/A
Planting/regular stock (acres) 2,560 52 -0-
Planting/genetically selected (acres) 2,239 221 6,800
Fertilization (acres) 2,418 0 16,700
Pruning (acres) 2,241 569 6,300
New permanent road const, (miles) 14.83 8
Roads fully decommissioned / obliterated 46.99 14.3 -0-
(miles)
Roads decommissioned (miles) 46.11 6.88 -0-
Noxious weed control, chemical (site/acres) 0/0 0/0 -0-
Noxious weed control, other (site/acres) 112/2232 1338 acres -0-
Bureau managed lands only.
Represents cumulative accomplishments from 1995 to 2002.
This figure represents a correction from the 1998 Annual Program Summary.
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