This page is to provide information on the stands and restoration work proposed in the Little Wenatchee LSR Stewardship Project to help foster a collaborative effort.  This is a relatively small plantation thinning project that aims to see if this work is an economically and ecologically viable option for improving habitat conditions in the Wenatchee River Ranger District.  The hope is that a dialogue around this project not only improves the plans for this specific proposal, but leads to a discussion of what and where next for stewardship in this district.

The project does not propose any road construction, and does propose commercial and non-commercial entries into plantations along an existing roadway that has an obvious intact roadbed (even if under vegetation in some areas).  Photos below attempt to visually display the project proposal areas as released in the original scoping notice.  Due to field trips by internal Forest Service staff and discussion with the collaborative group, some units have been dropped and more are being added.  The goal is to produce a final project by this winter, and work further on prescriptions in early 2008.

Click here for the Scoping Letter sent out for this project.

Click here to download a PDF of the project map.

Click here to download a PDF of the plantations in this LSR highlighted by plantation age, and pointing out this project area.

	Landscape picture that includes the proposed plantations for thinning in the middle of the photo.
	Southern commercial thin stand in proposal along Road 230.
	Southwest pre-commercial thin stand along Road 230.
	Road 230 near unit pictured above.  This is the road that would be used during operations, and this closed/restored following treatment.
	Road 230 a little further north from previous photo in the proposal area.
	Northern proposed commercial thin unit.  Note in photo the large stumps on the left side that were clumped throughout the stand we were able to walk through.
	Vegetation grown over Road 230 at its almost northern most part.  The roadbed is still felt and evident under vegetation, but summer vegetation has largely covered road.
	Road 230 opens up again after the portion photographed above.
	Northern proposed commercial thin unit in same unit as photographed above.

If you would like larger files of any of these photos sent to you please email jwatkins@conservationnw.org

The project lead for the US Forest Service is District Biologist Don Youkey (dyoukey@fs.fed.us)

The scoping deadline was September 10th, 2007 and an initial collaborative meeting and field tour was taken through the project area on September 4, 2007.  We are actively seeking input into this collaborative effort to guide the project, and hope to have the collaborative agree to a final project design that can have a Record of Decision signed by end of 2007.  To engage in the collaborative discussion please contact Jen Watkins at jwatkins@conservationnw.org