C04k_8 Layout Note Template.pdf

This is a timber logging systems and layout notes worksheet template used to document harvest unit planning and specifications for timber sales operations.

The worksheet captures comprehensive harvest planning information across five main sections. Section A addresses improvements including survey monuments, fences, cattleguards, and road specifications (existing, reconstruction, temporary, specified, and haul routes with corresponding length measurements). Section B identifies natural resources requiring documentation such as streams, springs, nests, and other environmental features with location data. Section C specifies logging methods by percentage allocation across tractor, feller-buncher, jammer, track line machine, skyline, tethered system, helicopter, and other systems, along with technical specifications including uphill/downhill yarding percentages, average slope, landing locations, maximum and average yarding distances, directional felling requirements, and multi-span configurations. Section D documents timber and volume information, requiring identification of common sawtimber species (Douglas-fir, Grand fir, Subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, Lodgepole pine, Ponderosa pine, Western larch) and uncommon conifer species (Western white pine, Whitebark pine, Western red cedar, and others) with percentage distributions, along with volume estimates including basal area for live and dead standing timber, board feet per acre, and other volume comments. The worksheet also includes a "Bugs & Crud" section for documenting insects/beetles, diseases, fungi, defects, and other forest health issues, plus an additional comments section. Page 2 provides a legend with standardized symbols for mapping the timber sale unit, including unit boundaries, yarding boundaries, road types, logging methods, water features, and riparian buffers.