| Major Land Allocations | Acres 1 | ||
| Congressional Reserves | 14,267 | ||
| Late-Successional Reserves | 178,467 | ||
| Late-Successional Reserve within AMA | 32,937 | ||
| Marbled Murrelet Reserve | 3,478 | ||
| District Defined Reserves | 1,290 | ||
| Connectivity/Diversity Blocks | 27,237 | ||
| Applegate Adaptive Management Area | 113,912 | ||
| Reserved Habitat Area | 16,732 | ||
| General Forest Management Area | 470,776 | ||
| Total | 859,096 | ||
| 1Allocations do not have any overlapping designations. | |||
| Reserves | Acres | ||
| Riparian Reserves (estimated)2 | 369,200 | ||
| 2Riparian Reserves occur across all land use allocations | |||
| Old-Growth and Mature Forest Habitat | Acres | ||
| Management Decision: Manage 25 percent of the land as Late-Successional Reserves and 3 percent as Connectivity/Diversity Blocks for old growth associated species. |
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| Acres managed for retention and development of older forest.3 | 497,500 | ||
| Acres managed for maintenance of older forest characteristics4 | 27,237 | ||
| Existing Older Forest Retained5 | 128,700 | ||
| 3Includes
Late-Successional Reserves, Riparian Reserves, and other
lands not available for timber harvest. 4Connectivity/Diversity Blocks 5Forest stands 100 years and older |
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| Timber | Acres | ||
| Forest Management Allocations (acres) | |||
| Intensive | 78,000 | ||
| Restricted | 113,000 | ||
| Enhancement of Other Uses or Not Available | 467,000 | ||
| Total | 668,100 | ||
| Practices (assumed average annual acres for first decade) | |||
| Regeneration | |||
| Harvest | 1,040 | ||
| Overstory Removal | 100 | ||
Table R-1. Summary of Land Use Allocations and Management
Actions/Direction (cont.)
(detailed management direction is described in the Resource
Management Plan)
| Commercial Thinning/Density Management | 1,860 | ||
| Site Preparation | |||
| Prescribed Fire | 600 | ||
| Other | 100 | ||
| Stand Maintenance/Protection | 2,500 | ||
| Stand Release/Precommercial thinning | 7,800 | ||
| Planting, | |||
| regular stock | 270 | ||
| genetic stock | 1,030 | ||
| Fertilization | 5,700 | ||
| Miles of New Road Construction (miles/acres) | 30/160 | ||
| Underburning (acres)- timber and other resource related | 800 | ||
| Pruning | 1,860 | ||
| Forest Condition Restoration | |||
| Restoration Thinning | 1,600 | ||
| Understory Reduction | 1,030 | ||
| Restoration Underburning | 1,000 | ||
| Plant Community Restoration | 200 | ||
| Restoration Fertilization | 3,500 | ||
| Harvest(MMCF/MMBF) | 10/57 | ||
| Special Status Species
Including Threatened and Endangered Species Habitat |
Acres | ||
| Management Decision: Manage habitats of Federal Candidate, State Listed, Bureau Sensitive, and SEIS Special Attention Species on all BLM-administered lands. |
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| Acres managed for all
Category 1 and 2 Federal Candidate, Listed and Bureau Sensitive species plants and animals |
859,096 | ||
| Wildlife (including Fisheries) Habitat | |||
| Buffer width, special habitats (feet) | 100-200 | ||
| Fish habitat improvement (miles) | 40 | ||
| Acres managed for big game management | 205,100 | ||
| Special Areas | |||
| Existing RNA/ACECs retained (#/acres) | 2/670 | ||
| Other Existing ACECs retained (#/acres) | 3/2,600 | ||
| New RNA/ACECs designated (#/acres) | 11/8,400 | ||
| Other new ACECs designated (#/acres) | 14/5,200 | ||
| Total RNA/ACECs (#/acres) | 13/9,100 | ||
| Total other/ACECs (#/acres) | 17/7,800 | ||
| Environmental Education Areas (#/acres) | 4/550 | ||
Table R-1. Summary of Land Use Allocations and Management
Actions/Direction (cont.)
(detailed management direction is described in the Resource
Management Plan)
| Recreation Resource | |||
| Recreation Sites | |||
| Existing (# sites/acres) | 11/950 | ||
| New (# sites/acres) | 29/850 | ||
| Trails Maintained | |||
| Existing (# trails/miles) | 14/80 | ||
| New (# trails/miles) | 16/160 | ||
| Special Recreation Management Areas | |||
| Existing (#/acres) | 3/43,000 | ||
| New (#/acres) | 2/13,000 | ||
| Back Country Byways (#/miles) | 11/352 | ||
| Acres open to OHV use | 391,400 | ||
| Acres OHV limited to Designated Roads and Trails | 441,700 | ||
| Acres closed to OHV use | 25,200 | ||
| Wild and Scenic Rivers | |||
| River segments found suitable for designation as: | |||
| Recreational (#/miles) | 0/0 | ||
| Scenic (#/miles) | 0/0 | ||
| Wild (#/miles) | 4/20 | ||
| Visual Resources | |||
| Management Decision: Manage important scenic values such as SRMAs, I-5, Hwy 62, Rogue Wild & Scenic River, Butte Falls-Prospect Hwy as VRM II. Manage Northern GFMA as VRM IV and Southern GFMA and RIAs as VRM III. |
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| Acres managed as VRM Class I (acres) | 14,330 | ||
| Acres managed as VRM Class II (acres) | 113,880 | ||
| Acres managed as VRM Class III (acres) | 393,100 | ||
| Acres managed as VRM Class IV (acres) | 337,220 | ||
| Land Tenure | |||
| Management Decision: Make exchanges within zones 2 and 3 that would enhance management opportunities to benefit one or more resource values. In zone 3, sell lands other than O&C commercial forestland that meet criteria of FLPMA Section 203(a). Consider R&PP leases to provide public facilities or services, as appropriate. |
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| Acres identified for retention (Zone 1)(acres) | 292,100 | ||
| Acres potentially eligible for exchange only (Zone 2)(acres) | 558,600 | ||
| Acres potentially eligible for sale or exchange (Zone 3)(acres) | 7,600 | ||
Table R-1. Summary of Land Use Allocations and Management
Actions/Direction (cont.)
(detailed management direction is described in the Resource
Management Plan)
| Rights-of-Way | ||
| Right-of-Way Avoidance Areas (acres) | 179,800 | |
| Right-of-Way Exclusion Areas (acres) | 43,300 | |
| Energy and Minerals Management | ||
| Acres available for oil and gas and geothermal leasing | 772,200 | |
| Acres closed to oil and gas and geothermal leasing | 22,000 | |
| Acres open to oil and gas and geothermal
mineral leasing with no surface occupancy |
73,300 | |
| Acres open to mining claim location and operation | 829,900 | |
| Acres closed to mining location | 37,600 | |
| Rural Interface Management | ||
| Acres considered for alternative management practices | 136,000 | |
| Acres managed for VRM Class III objectives | 136,000 |