Special Forest Products
Manage for the production and sale of special forest products when demand is present and where actions taken are consistent with primary objectives for the land use allocation.
Use the principles of ecosystem management to guide the management and harvest of special forest products.
Land Use Allocations
No land use allocations are made specifically for special forest products.
Where catastrophic events result in degraded riparian conditions, allow fuelwood cutting if required to attain Aquatic Conservation Strategy objectives.
Permit fuelwood gathering only in existing cull decks, in areas where green trees are marked by silviculturists for thinning, in areas where blowdown is blocking roads, and in recently harvested timber sale units where down material will impede scheduled post-sale activities or pose a unacceptable risk of future large scale disturbance. In all cases, these activities will comply with management actions/direction for Late-Successional Reserves.
Evaluate whether special forest product harvest activities have adverse effects on Late-Successional Reserve objectives.
Prior to selling special forest products, ensure resource sustainability and protection of other resource values such as special status plants or animal species.
Where special forest product activities are extensive, evaluate whether they have significant effects on late-successional habitat. Restrictions may be appropriate in some cases.
All Land Use Allocations
Allow harvest of special forest products throughout the district but apply the following area and plant species/group restrictions:
("X"s in both columns of the following chart means that harvesting in some sites/areas will be limited to seasons, amounts, etc., and harvesting in other sites/areas will not be allowed.)
(Limited harvest in the following chart means harvesting will be restricted to certain seasons, amounts, sites/areas, etc.)
Establish specific guidelines for the management of individual special forest products using interdisciplinary review as needed. Management guidelines will be based on the ecological characteristics of the special forest products species and the requirements of associated plant, animal, and fungal species. Guidelines will include provisions that minimize changes in site productivity. Monitoring of harvest activities and the effects of harvest will be part of special forest products management. Feasibility to harvest newly identified special forest products species will receive interdisciplinary review.
Promote burning of dry fuelwood by activities such as making available copies of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality publications to fuelwood purchasers.