Attachment B3 SOW Middle Cooks Bonanza.pdf

FY23MC3: Middle Cooks Bonanza PR

4/21/2023

SECTION C – DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATION/WORK STATEMENT

Scope of Contract

This marking contract package includes the following nine timber sales:

- Middle Cooks Bonanza PR T.S. (Estimated Acres) – Payment Units 01-09; 273 acres

This marking contract package involves timber marking and volume estimation of approximately

273 acres in Northern Hardwoods, Red Pine, Hemlock, and Aspen forest types, broken down by the following descriptions:

(1) HARDWOOD SINGLE-TREE SELECTION/IMPROVEMENT CUT (uneven-age)

(Marking & Cruising)

SELECTION:

Middle Cooks Bonanza PR T.S. – Payment Units 01-09; approximately 273 acres

Uneven aged stands or even-aged stands with uneven-aged or even-aged objectives consisting of a mixture of Northern Hardwood types of various size classes. These stands contain both pulpwood and sawtimber Species/Product/Unit mixes. Marking objectives are to remove trees considered high risk, defective, poor form, or mature and to maintain or develop size class structure with optimum growing stock, per the specific marking instructions.

(5) SAMPLE TREE CRUISING METHOD

Applies to ALL Payment Units within Middle Cooks Bonanza PR Timber Sale

The Sample Tree cruising method (STR) involves measuring a specified proportion (Sample

Interval) of trees in the defined sub-population. The remaining trees included for removal are tallied as count trees. With this cruising method, every tree included for removal must be visited and marked.

NOTE: USFS has not marked the Road R.O.W. units for any of these sales yet. This will be done by USFS at a later date. For units that have a road running through them, contractor should still mark/cruise trees up to the edge of the existing road clearing.

NOTE: Some of these timber sales are being advertised as Estimated Acres. All payment unit boundaries and acres will be finalized before contract marking begins in each timber sale.

NOTE: Government furnished tree marking paint (TMP) will be issued, or returned, by appointment only at the WATERSMEET RANGER DISTRICT OFFICE. The primary point of contact for all TMP transactions will be the paint custodian. This person will be identified at the pre-work meeting. BLUE paint has been designated for these sales.

FY23MC3: Middle Cooks Bonanza PR

4/21/2023

NOTE: USFS will mark any and all Leave Trees.

These sales can be accessed from the following directions:

Middle Cooks Bonanza PR T.S.: From Watersmeet, travel east on US-2 for 13 miles. Turn south on FR 3917 to enter the Sale Area. Payment units can be found on both sides of FR 3917.

Additional access to the payment units can be found by continuing along FR 3917 and various other forest roads within the Sale Area.

MIDDLE COOKS BONANZA PR T.S. – ESTIMATED ACRES

CRUISE DESIGN & MARKING INSTRUCTIONS

Sale Number: 30479 Estimated Sale Value: $149,930.92 Estimated CV Ranges: 15-45% Maximum Sampling Error: 10% Based on Cruise Data: Middle Cooks Bonanza PR Pre-Cruise Plot Data Cruise Methods: Sample Tree (STR) [Reference attached Minimum Tree and Piece Utilization Standards, dated 11/02/2015] [Total Estimated Sale Acres = 274 Acres including 1 acre ROW]

Middle Cooks Bonanza PR Payment Unit & Acreage Summary Table

P.U. # Estimated

Acres Final Acres Strata Marking Method Species

P.U. 01 8 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 02 21 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 03 46 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 04 37 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 05 36 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 06 13 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 07 53 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 08 37 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 09 22 - 1 CTM All Species P.U. 10 R.O.W.

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1 CTM (USFS) All Species

STRATA 1: (CTM)

Single-Tree Selection Payment Units: 01-09 (273 Acres).

Payment Unit 10 (R.O.W.) (1 acre) will be marked and cruised by USFS.

Sample Group

Species/Product (Unit) DBH Range Sample Interval

HS Small Hardwood/Pulpwood (02) 5.0”-10.99” 1:350 HL Large Hardwood/Pulpwood (02) 11.0”+ 1:75 SS Small Sugar Maple/Sawtimber (01) 11.0”-14.99” 1:25 SL Large Sugar Maple/Sawtimber (01) 15.0”+ 1:25 OS Small Other Hardwood/Sawtimber (01)

[includes Red Maple, Basswood, Black Cherry, Yellow Birch, & White Birch]

11.0”-14.99” 1:25

OL Large Other Hardwood/Sawtimber (01) [includes Red Maple, Basswood, Black Cherry, Yellow Birch, & White Birch]

15.0”+ 1:25

BP Ash/Pulpwood (02) [includes Black Ash & White Ash]

5.0”+ 1:20

BW Ash/Sawtimber (01) [includes Black Ash & White Ash]

11.0”+ 1:5

A Aspen/Pulpwood (02) 5.0”+ 1:15 CS Small Mixed Conifer/Pulpwood (02)

[includes Balsam Fir, Tamarack, Cedar, Hemlock, White Pine, Scots Pine, White Spruce, Black Spruce, & Norway Spruce]

5.0”-8.99” 1:25

CL Large Mixed Conifer/Pulpwood (02) [includes Balsam Fir, Tamarack, Cedar, Hemlock, Scots Pine, White Spruce, Black Spruce, & Norway Spruce]

9.0”+ 1:10

PP Pine/Pulpwood (02) [includes Red Pine & Jack Pine]

5.0”+ 1:5

PW Pine/Sawtimber (01) [includes Red Pine & White Pine]

9.0”+ 1:5

Note: Cruise all Aspen, Spruce, & Balsam Fir as pulpwood.

Marking Instructions

Hardwood Selection/Sample Tree Cruising (STR) : Payment Units 01-09 (273 Acres)

ALL merchantable trees to be removed from this Payment Unit require two paint marks at DBH on opposite sides of the tree AND a corresponding stump mark (see specific Marking Instructions for this Payment Unit). Cruise marked trees using the Sample Groups and Sample Intervals above.

A random start should be used for each sample group at the start of marking in each payment unit. Select a random interval that is less than the required sample interval for the first tally in each sample group, thereafter, sample at the specified sample interval.

Maintain an accurate tree count by payment unit for each sample group. Original field records used for tracking tree counts must be with the tally cards or data recorder sheets when each unit is completed. Do not recopy field notes of tree counts or tally cards.

Right-of-Way Clearing (USFS mark)/Sample Tree Cruising (STR) : Payment Unit 10 (1 acre)

ALL merchantable trees to be removed from this Payment Unit require paint marks at DBH on opposite sides of the tree AND a corresponding stump mark. Cruise marked trees using the Sample Groups and Sample Intervals above.

NOTE: Refer to Marking Guides for specific marking instructions for these Payment Units.

NOTE: Middle Cooks Bonanza PR T.S. is being advertised as an estimated acres contract.

Payment unit boundaries and acreages will be finalized before contract marking begins.

* USFS personnel will be marking Payment Unit 10 - road R.O.W. at a later date.

NOTE: Government furnished tree marking paint (TMP) will be issued or returned by appointment only, at the WATERSMEET RANGER DISTRICT OFFICE. The primary point of contact for all TMP transactions will be the paint custodian. This person will be identified at the pre-work meeting. BLUE paint has been designated for this sale.

Cruise Design Prepared by: Brandon Pertile, Forestry Technician Date: 2/6/2023

Cruise Design Reviewed by: Paul Dashner, Forest Check Cruiser Date: 2/6/2023 Cruise Design Reviewed & Updated By: Sara Vial, TMA Date: 3/15/2023

Marking Contract Narrative by: Sarah Kilpela, Forestry Technician Date: 3/6/2023

Cruise Design & Marking Instructions Approved by: Sara Vial, TMA Date: 3/15/2023

MINIMUM TREE AND PIECE UTILIZATION STANDARDS (11/02/2015 revision)

Minimum Tree Specifications

Minimum Piece Specifications

SPECIES PRODUCT DBH (inches) Length (feet)

DIB

(inches)

Minimum Net Scale in % of Gross

Hardwoods (except aspen)

Sawlogs 11.0 8 9.6-11.5 95% 1/

Hardwoods Sawlogs 11.0 8 11.6+ 50% 1/ Softwood Sawlogs 9.0 8 7.6 40 All Species Pulpwood 5.0 8 4.0 70 and reasonably straight 2/

1/ In Timber Sale Contracts, all hardwood sawlogs will use 50% minimum net scale in gross %, due to limitations in TIM. Cruising will use 95% minimum net scale for small diameter logs (9.6 – 11.5 DIB).

2/ Seventy percent applies to rot, voids, and char. Mechanical type defects such as sweep, crook, spider heart, and ring shake will not be considered.

Reasonably straight - When the true line of a minimum length piece does not deviate more than ½ the inside diameter of the small and plus two inches from a straight line drawn between the centers of the ends of a piece.

The maximum deflection allowed is what will fit in a 20-inch cylinder.

A minimum tree must include at least one piece that meets minimum specifications.

** Product heights are now measured to the nearest foot. All heights are measured in feet from the ground on the high side of the stump.

1. Conifers – measure total height (to the tip) in feet and the cruise program will calculate the 4” cut-off.

2. Hardwoods (includes Aspen) – measure the height in feet to the 4” top.

3. Sawtimber – cut-off point or “stoppers” will follow our regular practices. Measure sawtimber height in feet. Secondary product height will be measured as described in item 1 or 2 depending on the species.

4. Default dib’s are already built into the equations;

pulpwood = 4.0” sawtimber = 9.6” (hardwood) = 7.6” (mixed conifers, pine)

5. On trees with a broken, dead, or deformed top, record the height to the point where the

4” top or the tip would have been if the tree were still growing normally, then record defect to account for the missing volume.

Ottawa NF Standard Form 2400-???

OTTAWA NATIONAL FOREST

SILVICULTURAL PRESCRIPTION / MARKING GUIDES

STAND INFORMATION

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Ranger District

Comp- Stand

Est.

Acres MA LTA ELTP Habitat Type

Cover Type LSC

Year of

Origin Size

Density SI BA

01-03 105-02 8 2.2 7 15B 14A

AVO

ATD, TMC-Dry 81 500 - 9 65 130

02-03 105-02 21 2.2 7 15B 14A

03-03 105-02 46 2.2 7 15B

AVO

ATD, TMC-Dry

81 500 - 9 65 130 105-08 81 500 - 9 60 120

04-03 105-02 37 2.2 7 15B/C

AVO

ATD, TMC-Dry

105-10 11 500 1900 9 50 110

05-03 105-02 36 2.2 7 15B/C AVO 81 500 - 9 65 130

06-03 105-08 13 2.2 7 15B AVO 81 500 - 9 60 120

07-03 105-02 53 2.2 7 15B/C

AVO

ATD, TMC-Dry

08-03 105-02 37 2.2 7 15B/C

09-03 105-02 22 2.2 7 15B AVO 81 500 - 9 65 130

STAND DESCRIPTION

Stands 2 and stand 8 consists of predominantly sugar maple with small amounts of red maple, black cherry, bur oak along with scattered yellow birch. Stand 10 consists mostly of aspen and balsam fir with small amounts of spruce, maple, black cherry interspersed throughout the stand. The current basal area ranges from 110-130 ft2/acre. These stands have fair quality stems. Regeneration is poor in these stands. Small to large pockets of blowdown exist in these stands.

DESIRED CONDITION

A healthy uneven aged northern hardwood stands that is resilient to insect and disease attacks, ensuring trees in the stand are growing at an optimum rate, maintaining or increasing current species diversity, maintaining high structural diversity, and establishing a new cohort.

SHORT AND LONG TERM OBJECTIVES

• Apply silvicultural treatments to regenerate and restore a healthy uneven-aged northern hardwood stands.

• Target a residual basal area of 75 FT2/AC

• Retain or increase species diversity by retaining species other than sugar maple.

• Retain and release healthy black cherry, white pine, hemlock, cedar, oak, and elm.

• Achieve a stocking level of 3,000 seedlings per acre of native species.

• Maintain and protect ecological processes and functions in and around riparian areas where they occur within the sale area.

REMARKS

NEPA DECISION DOCUMENT: Drumloid VMP TIMBER SALE: Middle Cooks Bonanza PU: See Table

ONF-2400-2

3/1/07 Version

NEPA DECISION DOCUMENT: Drumloid VMP TIMBER SALE: Middle Cooks Bonanza PU: See Table Do not designate any trees for removal in poorly drained pockets, seeps, steep slopes, perched water tables, or shallow bedrock. All spruce and balsam should be considered high risk and removed.

MARKING GUIDE:

Name of Treatment - Selection Harvest

Residual BA/Ac – 75

FT2/AC

Acres - See attached cover sheet

Target a residual basal area of 75 FT2/AC. Remove high risk trees that are diseased/structurally damaged unless it’s a cull or provides wildlife use. Consider all spruce, balsam and aspen high risk and remove. Retain and promote healthy black cherry, yellow birch, hemlock, basswood, oak, white pine, cedar, and cherry to maintain or increase diversity. Where aspen is present expand gap by 1 tree length (75 feet) to improve aspen regeneration. Where healthy black cherry is present install one (1) regeneration gap per 2 acres. Ideally the healthy black cherry will be in the center of the gap with a 33’ cleared opening, from tree drip line to canopy edge. It is recommended to create the gap first before marking the surrounding area to the target residual basal area.

Order of Removal For All Payment Units:

1. Target high risk trees that are diseased or will most likely die within the next 15 years that still contain merchantable products. Release all healthy black cherry, that are not used for the above regeneration gaps, on all 4 sides. Consider all spruce, balsam fir and aspen high risk and remove all merchantable trees.

2. Promote quality development though removing competing trees of lesser quality to release the best crop trees. Competition among closely spaced crop trees can be retained to preserve the quality of the stand while still maintaining the target residual BA. In areas lacking wildlife trees or stags, trees lacking merchantable products can be retained for future wildlife snag/cavity trees.

3. If still above BA objective: continue to remove unacceptable growing stock by targeting all size classes that exhibit signs of structural/growth/disease that may be inhibiting the current or future growth potential while improving the growing space of the residual stems as identified in the table below. Choose to remove maple species first to increase species diversity.

POST HARVEST TREATMENTS

FACTS Code Name of Treatment Prescription 4511 Individual Weed and Release Release all cherry determine need/timing during 1st and 3rd year surveys.

4341 Stocking Survey 1st year stocking survey/determine TSI need/timing.

4341 Stocking Survey 3rd year stocking survey/determine TSI need/timing.

4382 Certification for Natural Regen Certification for Natural Regen

ACTIVITIES SUMMARY

Year Facts Activity Code Description 2035 4151 Single-Tree Selection Harvest 2035 4511 TSI – determine timing/need during 1st and 3rd year surveys 2036 4341 1st year stocking survey 2038 4341 3rd year stocking survey 2038 4382 Certification for Natural Regen

DESIGN CRITERIA AND MITIGATION MEASURES

Highlighted Design Criteria, see NEPA for all the criteria

• If any stick nests are found (A1) the wildlife biologist should be consulted.

• Reserve snags and den trees according to Forest Plan guidelines (p. 2-32); focus on retaining trees with features beneficial to the NLEB such as shaggy bark and cavities. (A1)

• If any archaeological sites are located during layout or implementation the Archaeologist should be consulted

Prepared by: Matthew Pickar

Reviewed by:

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Approved by: Michael Strieter

Title: Silviculturist (Detail)

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Date: 2/15/2023

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MIDDLE COOKS BONANZA PR T.S. #30479

Estimated Acres - Payment Units & Vicinity Map

0 0.5 10.25 Miles

Sarah Kilpela 02/22/2023

Vicinity Map (Not to scale)

Deep Aspen T.S.

ESTIMATED ACRES

PU

01 - 8 (CTM)

02 - 21 (CTM)

03 - 46 (CTM)

04 - 37 (CTM)

05 - 36 (CTM)

06 - 13 (CTM)

07 - 53 (CTM)

08 - 37 (CTM)

09 - 22 (CTM)

10 - 1 (R.O.W.)

EST. TOTAL SALE ACRES

(01-10) = 274 ac

EST. CONTRACT ACRES

(01-09) = 273 ac

Scale 1:15,840

Cooks Run

T44N R37W

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T43N R37W

Middle Cooks- Bonanza PR

Sale Area

Cooks Run

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