DNR_Crystal Falls_GNA2 North Behlow.pdf

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Michigan Department of Natural Resources – Forest Resources Division

TIMBER SALE PRESCRIPTION

GENERAL

Forest Resources Division Management Unit

Crystal Falls

Sale Name (or prescription name)

GNA2 North Behlow

Timber Sale Number (if applicable)

12-804-23

LOCAL CONTACT

Name

Tyler Ritchie

Email Address

RitchieT1@michigan.gov

Telephone

906-221-0318

TIMELINE

Contract Work Can Begin:

Immediately Date:

Contract Work Must Be Completed By:

08/15/2023

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Town

46N & 47N

Range

39W

Section(s)

2, 3; 34, 35

Description

TS located East of US 45 and South of Swanson Road.

Year of Entry

Compartment(s)

7906018 & 7906027

Stand Number(s)

Access

USFS

ACREAGE (Payment will be made based on these estimated acres) Estimated Acres

282.2 Source

Inventory GPS Other:

TREATMENT & OBJECTIVE

VDU # COVER TYPE ACRES INITIAL BA TREATMENT MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE

1 M9 62.1 141-170 Single Tree Northern Hardwoods

2 R9 75.0 141-170 Crown Thinning Red Pine

3 M9 139.7 141-170 Low Thinning Northern Hardwoods

4 LM9 5.4 141-170 Clear Cut Lowland Aspen

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PRESCRIPTION

Name of Treatment - Single-Tree Selection (4151) Desired Residual BA: 70-90 ft2/ac VDU 1 – 62.1 Acres

MARKING GUIDE STANDARDS:

• Do not mark below 60 ft2/ac and no more than 40% of initial BA regardless of risk or quality.

• GENERALLY RETAIN: Healthy black cherry, hemlock, aspen, white pine, red pine, elm, oak and cedar unless removal needed for logging operability.

• GENERALLY FAVOR ALL SPECIES OTHER THAN MAPLE AND IRONWOOD: Favor less common species but not at the expense of the best quality trees. This is usually addressed in Step #3, where if most conditions are relatively equal, continue to improve the relative spacing by marking ironwood, red and sugar maple to meet desired BA.

MARK BY ORDER OF REMOVAL

1. HIGH RISK: Mark diseased/structurally damaged trees of any size class (die within next 15 years) that still contain merchantable products unless needed for other resource values (cavity trees).

Consider most mature aspen, black ash, red maple >15” DBH, fir and spruce as high risk. However, avoid marking large aspen (>16” DBH), especially if large drop zone is needed to fell the tree. This effort will contribute to the 2-3 wildlife tree objectives.

2. QUALITY DEVELOPMENT: Identify the best crop trees in the stand and provide a release by marking two main crown competing trees of lesser quality. Generally allow competition among closely spaced crop trees to preserve as much quality as possible while adhering to desired BA.

Oak should be released on 3 sides to an average BA of 60 ft2.

3. DENSITY/MATURITY/SPACING: If BA is still above desired, continue to improve stand quality and growing space by marking fair and marginal quality trees (mostly 6-10” DBH class). First identify trees that are:

3a – Unacceptable Growing Stock: Trees of any size that are likely to survive for decades but have structural/growth/disease issues; and/or exhibit signs of marginal improvement or significant volume loss; and/or trees that exhibit signs of suppression and are less likely to develop sawlog potential. If after addressing this part of the step and the BA is still higher than desired, then look at:

3b – Acceptable Growing Stock: Trees that have sawlog potential but possess slight quality issues specific to form, structure, soundness. Examples are sweep, low branching, old branch stubs or epicormic sprouting. This category can also include hardwood trees that are arriving at biological maturity and includes: black cherry >15” DBH; sugar maple and yellow birch >19” DBH; white ash and basswood >21” DBH. (Note: This step can come first in step #3 if these large sawtimber sized trees form closely spaced groups.)

If BA is still above desired, then continue marking other additional trees to improve the relative spacing and achieve desired BA.

4. REGENERATION GAPS: Install approximately one 66’ x 66’ gap every three acres. Utilizing the removal of large sawtimber trees and/or groups of poor-quality trees. It is recommended to do this first, and then mark remainder of stand to 70-90 ft2/ac to achieve the desired residual BA.

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Name of Treatment – Commercial Thinning (4220) Desired Residual BA: 80-120 ft2/ac VDU 2 – 75.0 Acres

Resultant stand appearance needs to be an even-aged stand that is dominated by high quality red pine and white pine along with representative species of healthy jack pine, oak, aspen, red maple, black cherry and paper birch.

Thin stand to 80 to 120 BA, but not more than 1/3 +/- of the BA present where red pine is featured, with emphasis on retaining and releasing the healthiest, most vigorous trees present. Mark for operability and reduce damage to residual trees.

Tree retention:

• Red and white pine should be considered the featured tree species, so efforts to remove red & white pine trees with obvious disease issues must be a priority.

• Mark other species as appropriate but preserve healthy examples of all species present.

• Generally retain hemlock, cedar and oak; consider releasing them wherever it is convenient to do so.

• If cherry or paper birch are marked to cut, provide adequate space to encourage sprouting to maintain these species in the stands.

• Where aspen is encountered, it may be left in place or cut and regenerated depending on condition and age.

• Retention pockets ranging from ½ to 2 acres may be left undisturbed where age class diversity is evident and areas that feature a high percentage of reserved species. Also, retain patches of timber where the majority of the trees would yield one merchantable stick.

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Name of Treatment – Commercial Thinning (4220) Desired Residual BA: 80-100 ft2/ac VDU 3 – 139.7 Acres

• Do not mark below 60 ft2/ac and no more than 40% of initial BA regardless of risk or quality.

• GENERALLY RETAIN: Healthy black cherry, hemlock, white pine, red pine, elm, oak and cedar unless needed to be removed for logging operations.

• GENERALLY FAVOR ALL SPECIES OTHER THAN MAPLE AND IRONWOOD. Favor less common non-high-risk species, but not at the expense of the best quality trees. This is usually addressed in Step #3, where if most conditions are relatively equal, continue to improve the relative spacing by marking ironwood, red and sugar maple to meet desired BA.

MARK BY ORDER OF REMOVAL

1. HIGH RISK: Remove most high-risk trees that are likely to die between cutting cycles (assume 15 years).

Consider as high risk most mature aspen, ironwood, red maple with defects, and unhealthy paper birch; in addition to all merchantable-sized jack pine, balsam fir and white spruce.

2. RELEASE CROP TREES: Remove 1-2 poorer quality crown competitors to encourage crown development of dominant and co-dominant species. Provide full crown release to white pine. Oak should be released on 3 sides to an average BA of 60 ft2.

3. VIGOR: Remove suppressed and intermediate crown position trees.

4. FORM & QUALITY: FROM BELOW - Remove poorly formed stems, based on usable/potential log length; in addition, trees with noticeable defects (seams, sweep, cankers, low forks, etc.).

5. SPACING: FROM BELOW - Improve the relative spacing of trees where crowns are overlapping or near-touching.

6. DO NOT INTENTIONALLY CREATE GAPS. Unlike single-tree selection, we want to capture as much of the solar resources as possible for the retained merchantable trees which will provide that added growth for next harvest entry.

Name of Treatment – Clearcut (4113) Desired Residual BA: See Below VDU 4 – 5.4 Acres

Resultant stand appearance needs to be a near-complete open condition with some small groups of trees retained (if available) to allow every opportunity for aspen or other hardwoods to regenerate and become established. As a general rule, average basal area should not exceed 5 ft2/ac.

MARK/CRUISE:

• All merchantable-sized tree species unless designated with red paint band, indicating retention.

Tree Retention:

• Generally retain healthy hemlock, white pine, red pine, elm, oak and cedar.

• Any species, possessing wildlife habitat attributes (e.g. cavity).

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PAINT LINES

This is included in the bid This is not included in the bid

Paint line work to be performed: (See attached map for locations)

TYPE OF LINE WORK TO BE DONE PAINT COLOR

Exterior line against private

Blue Other:

Exterior line against state Red Other:

Interior payment unit Yellow Other:

Other: Green Other:

Exclusions to mark and why:

N/A

Standards for marking lines against private land:

N/A

BOUNDARY GPS

GPS data files will be provided

FEATURE WORK TO BE DONE NOTES

Volume Determination Unit (VDU)

Payment Unit (PU)

Exclusions Special Instructions:

N/A

TIMBER MARKING SPECIFICATIONS

This is included in the bid This is not included in the bid

Total Merchantable Residual BA (Basal Area): See Prescription section

TREATMENT NUMBER SIZE

Regeneration Gaps Per Acre:

Girdled Trees Per Acre:

PRODUCT MARKING SYMBOL MINIMUM DBH TOP DOB

Sawlogs Single Blue Slash 10.6” 10.0”

Pulpwood Single Blue Slash 4.6” 4.0”

TYPE OF WORK WORK TO BE DONE PAINT COLOR

Trees marked to leave

Green Other:

Trees marked to cut Orange Other: Blue

Special Marking Instructions:

• See Prescriptions for marking specifics for each VDU.

• Follow riparian management criteria and buffers provided by DNR Staff.

• If any stick nests are found the local contact should be consulted.

• Reserve snags and den trees.

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TIMBER CRUISING SPECIFICATIONS

Cruise layout file will be provided

TOTAL NUMBER OF CRUISE POINTS ~144 NOTE: FOR EACH VDU, SELECT A BAF THAT AVERAGES 4-8 TREES PER POINT

CRUISE DESIGN (MobileMap)

VDU 1 VDU 2

Plots per acre 1 : 2 Plots per acre 1 : 2

Management type GNA Management type GNA

District GNA ONF District GNA ONF

FMU ONF – Watersmeet FMU ONF – Watersmeet

Compartment 7906018 Compartment 7906018

VDU Number 1 VDU Number 2

FCS Key 7906018001 FCS Key 7906018112

Contract or State Contract Contract or State Contract

Purpose Timber Sale Purpose Timber Sale

Plot Type BAF Plot Type BAF

BAF or Plot Size 10 BAF or Plot Size 10

Sample Type Sample Tree Ratio (STR) Sample Type Sample Tree Ratio (STR)

Sample Tree Ratios All Pulp - 1:10 All Saw - 1:5

Sample Tree Ratios

All Saw - 1:5

Status Planned Status Planned

Residual Plot Density N/A Residual Plot Density N/A

Residual BAF N/A Residual BAF N/A

Stump Height 0.5 Stump Height 0.5

VDU 3 VDU 4

Plots per acre 1 : 2 Plots per acre 1 : 1

Management type GNA Management type GNA

District GNA ONF District GNA ONF

FMU ONF – Watersmeet FMU ONF – Watersmeet

Compartment 7906018 Compartment 7906018

VDU Number 3 VDU Number 4

FCS Key 7906018106 FCS Key 7906018110

Contract or State Contract Contract or State Contract

Purpose Timber Sale Purpose Timber Sale

Plot Type BAF Plot Type BAF

BAF or Plot Size 10 BAF or Plot Size 20

Sample Type Sample Tree Ratio (STR) Sample Type Sample Tree Ratio (STR)

Sample Tree Ratios

All Saw - 1:5

Sample Tree Ratios

All Saw - 1:5

Status Planned Status Planned

Residual Plot Density N/A Residual Plot Density N/A

Residual BAF N/A Residual BAF N/A

Stump Height 0.5 Stump Height 0.5

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RESTRICTIONS

1. Forest Resources Division must be able to identify who did what on the timber sale.

2. The contractor may not have more than two markers in one cruise unit without prior approval.

3. Each marker should have an assigned area to mark (not strips).

PAINT

4. Call Tyler Ritchie at (906) 221-0318 to make arrangements for paint.

5. Paint will be supplied from Crystal Falls.

6. Contractor’s work schedule must coincide with the DNR work schedule for paint supply.

7. The DNR will not be available on weekends or evenings.

DELIVERABLES

8. A list of names that marked or cruised each cruise unit.

9. A summary of paint used (in quarts).

10. All data, cruise and GPS, must be uploaded from MobileMap to InventoryManager.

Additional Information

Access to the main sale area will be from the south on USFS 5306. Directions and flagging will be used as well as a prework meeting to guide contractors to the sale area.