Klamath Falls Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan

Klamath Falls Record of Decision

Klamath Falls District Resource Management Plan Table of Contents:

- Tables

- Maps

- Appendices

Rural Interface Areas

Objectives

Consider the interests of adjacent and nearby rural land owners, including residents, during analysis, planning and monitoring related to managed rural interface areas. These interests include personal health and safety, improvements to property and quality of life. Determine how land owners might be or are affected by activities on BLM-administered lands.

Land Use Allocations

Managed rural interface areas encompass approximately 3,500 acres of BLM-administered land within one-quarter mile of private lands zoned for 1 to 5-acre or 5 to 20-acre lots located throughout the district (see Map 6 for locations and Table 1 in Appendix B for acres).

Management Actions/Direction

Work with local governments to:

• Improve the BLM data base regarding private land planning/zoning designations and residential development near BLM-administered land;
• Provide information to local planners regarding BLM land allocations in rural interface areas and the management objectives and guidelines for these lands;
• Develop design features and mitigation measures that will minimize the possibility of conflicts between private and federal land management; and
• Monitor the effectiveness of design features and mitigation measures in rural interface areas.

As a part of watershed analysis and project planning, work with local individuals and groups, including fire protection districts, to identify and address concerns related to possible impacts of proposed management activities on rural interface areas.

Use design features and mitigation measures to avoid/minimize impacts to health, life, and property and quality of life. Examples include different harvest regimes, hand application rather than aerial application of herbicides and pesticides, and hand piling slash for burning of low to moderate intensity prescribed burns. Monitor the effectiveness of design features and mitigation measures.

Eliminate or mitigate public hazards such as abandoned mine tunnels and quarries.

Manage within ¹¦₄ mile of rural interface areas using no less than visual resource management Class III standards (unless an area is classified as visual resource management Class I or II).

Reduce unauthorized public use of non-through or "local" roads within rural interface areas and within ¹¦₄ mile of existing dwellings. Gates and other types of traffic barriers such as guardrails, berms, ditches, and log barricades will be used as appropriate. These actions are needed to reduce public health and safety hazards, fire risk, vandalism to private property, and will be used on an as needed basis.

Reduce natural fuel hazards on BLM-administered lands in rural interface areas.