Little Wenatchee LSR Collaborative

Information on the Little Wenatchee LSR stewardship project proposed by the Wenatchee River Ranger District for collaboration.

The Little Wenatchee LSR Stewardship Project aims to determine if their work as a relatively small plantation thinning project would be an economically and ecologically viable option for improving habitat conditions in the Wenatchee River Ranger District. The hope is that a dialogue about this project will not only improve the plans for this specific proposal, but lead to a discussion of future stewardship in this district.

The project does not propose any road construction, but does propose commercial and non-commercial entries into plantations along existing roadways that have 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.

	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.