Coos Bay Pilot Project Maps & Resources

The Secretary of Interior has endorsed the first component of the Coquille Indian Tribe's Landscape Management Proposal in which the Tribe and the BLM will work together to develop a demonstration timber sale pilot in coordination with professors Norm Johnson and Jerry Franklin. This pilot will demonstrate the professors' ecological principles of variable retention regeneration harvest in the Oregon coast range. The timber sale pilot project will take place in T. 28 S., R. 10 W., Section 17 on Coos Bay Wagon Road lands in Coos County.

Maps

• September Field Tour Handout (PDF)
• Project Design Features Map (PDF)
• Wagon Road Vicinity Map (PDF)
• Section 17 - Pilot Timber Sale Location (PDF)
• Section 17 Marbled Murrelet Habitat and Riparian Reserves (PDF)
• Section 17 Stand Ages (PDF)

Materials from September Public Field Tour

• September 15, 2011 Field Tour Summary (PDF)
• Oregon Society of American Foresters Comments (PDF)
• Cascadia Wildlands Comments (PDF)

Materials from May Public Meeting

• Pilot Project Overview Handout (PDF)
• Presentation (PDF)

Misc. Documents

• CIT/BLM Cooperative Agreement (PDF)
• Guide to Creating Diverse Early Successional Ecosystems through Variable Retention Regeneration Harvest on the Coos Bay District (PDF)
• Pilot Project Modification - CIT/BLM Cooperative Agreement (PDF)