Barred Rock

The Barred Rock Stewardship Project is located on the Dolores Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest encompassing the area indicated on the Contract Area Map. The project is located within Chicken Creek .
Restoration objectives for the project area are summarized as follows:
• Improve Forest Health - Provide growing space for healthy trees and reduce fuel loadings
• Reintroduce Fire - Provide mechanical fuel treatments and preparatory work to manage the effects of the return of fire as a disturbance mechanism.
• Reduce impacts and potential spread of bark beetle infestation.
• Reduce populations of bark beetle by removing beetle infected trees before the insect's flight in September of each year.
• Improve soil and aquatic conditions - Provide for soil and riparian function and productivity. Provide timely soil erosion control measures and restorative work.
• Utilize Timber or other products - Provide wood resource to forest product industry.
• Create insect, fire and disease resilient stands of trees.

To accomplish these objectives, the contract includes the following components: stand cleaning/thinning, mechanical fuels reduction, Treatment - non-commercial cleaning/thinning, and piling of fuels, timber or other products removal
(b) Resulting Contract - Any resultant contract will be a commercial services contract with requirements for timber removal.
(c) Project Location - Project is located in: T37N, R13W Section(s) 27, 28, 33, 34 Montezuma County NMPM

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