Final Environmental Impact Statement

Vestal Final Environmental Impact Statement Chapter 2
The vegetation treatments described above contribute to reducing fire hazard within the
project area. Additional treatments that focus specifically on reducing fuels are also
proposed and summarized below. Besides reducing fuels, prescribed fire would also be
used to maintain openings near Buckhorn Mountain that were previously created under a
separate project for mountain goat forage.
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Dead Fall-Before
Mechanical treatment of existing
slash, resulting from MPB caused
mortality, to a target height of 18”
where possible, but no more than 24”
from the ground.
May include various methods but not
limited to lopping, chipping, crushing,
piling and burning, or mastication.
No standing dead would be cut as part
of this treatment. The objective of
this treatment is to reduce the dead
ladder fuels within these stands, thus
reducing the potential for a wildfire to
move into the crowns.
Dead Fall (DF)
23,693* acres
*Deadfall is included on all pine sites in the
project area. Actual acres would be dependent
upon extent of MPB killed trees.
Dead Fall-After