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Dear Southwest Idaho RAC Member:
Enclosed is the agenda for the June meeting of the RAC. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 18, 2003, starting at 10:00 a.m. at the American Legion Hall in Cascade. A working lunch is planned, with lunch and soft drinks provided to RAC members. You can bring a brown bag lunch if you prefer.
You can be reimbursed for travel expenses associated with the meeting, including mileage. In order to be reimbursed you will need to provide the following documentation (this can be turned in at the meeting):
- Start/end times of travel,
- Mileage to/from the meeting, and
- Lodging receipt
If you have any questions, please contact me at (208) 634-0400, or via e-mail at "rswick@fs.fed.us". Thanks again for your participation on the RAC.
Sincerely,
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/s/ Randy Swick |
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RANDALL G. SWICK |
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Designated Federal Officer
Southwest Idaho Resource Advisory Committee |
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enclosures
Cc:
Dick Smith, Boise NF
Suzanne Rainville, Boise NF
Mark Madrid, Payette NF
Andy Brunelle, Capitol City Coord - Idaho
Dave Olson, Boise NF
Linda Steinhaus, Boise NF
Boyd Hartwig, Payette NF
Leadership Team, Boise NF
Leadership Team, Payette NF |
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Idaho Congressional Delegations
County Commissioners and Clerks
Maggie Mahoney, IAC |
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Southwest Idaho Resource Advisory Committee Meeting
AGENDA
June 18, 2003
Meeting location: American Legion Hall
Cascade, Idaho
10:00 AM Welcome, Meeting Objectives, and Agenda Review
(Phil Davis, RAC Chairperson)
10:05 AM Review and Approval of 5-22-03 Meeting Minutes (D), Review and Approval of RAC Expenses (D), RAC Funding Balance Update, Project Log Update and Future Meeting Date. (Randy Swick, DFO)
10:20 AM Public Forum
1. Comments and questions from the public to the committee
a. Steven Jones, Mountain Home Highway District
10:30 AM Review of Project Proposals – Proposal Form Part 2 and Decision to Recommend Project Modification (DR)
(Phil Davis, RAC Chairperson; Randy Swick, DFO)
- Cascade RD Trailheads Improvement Project - Modification
(#03001) – Ronn Julian, Cascade Ranger District
10:45 AM Review of Project Proposals – Proposal Form Part 1 (D) and Part 2 (D) and Decision to Recommend Project (DR)
(Phil Davis, RAC Chairperson; Randy Swick, DFO)
- South Fork Trail Rehab Demonstration
(#03024) – Mike Stewart, Cascade Forest Resource Center, City of Cascade
- Stibnite/Forest Concepts Demonstration Project
(#03025) – Mike Stewart, Cascade Forest Resource Center, City of Cascade
11:45 PM Working Lunch (Sack lunch will be provided for RAC members). Load into vehicles and proceed to following:
12:00 PM Tour of Forest Concepts, ELWd Division, Facility
12:45 PM Field Trip to South Fork Salmon River to review implementation of South Fork Salmon River Salmon Fishing Event Project (#03007) and to review site of proposed South Fork Trail Rehab Demonstration Project (#03024)
3:15 PM Leave South Fork Salmon River and return to Cascade American Legion Hall
4:00 PM Meeting Adjourned
(D) = Decision requiring quorum and simple majority for approval.
(DR) = Decision requiring quorum and majority of each Sub Group for approval. |
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Proposed Project Synopsis June 18, 2003 SW Idaho RAC Meeting
Cascade RD Trailheads Improvement Project - Modification (#03001) – Ronn Julian, Cascade Ranger District
Total Additional Project Cost: $10,000
Title II Additional Request: $10,000
This project was originally recommended for Title II funding by the RAC in November, 2002 for a total amount of $61,800. The original contract estimate for the project was $54,300. The project sponsor indicates the actual bid is $10,000 higher and is requesting additional Title II funds of an equal amount.
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South Fork Trail Rehab Demonstration (#03024) – Mike Stewart, Cascade Forest Resource Center, City of Cascade
Total Project Cost: $12,000
Title II Request: $12,000
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10. Statement of Project Purpose and Expected Outcomes [Sec. 203(b)(1), and (b)(5)]:
The project is intended to remove problematic trails from the forest, leading from the South Fork Salmon River Road down to the water’s edge of the South Fork Salmon River. With the return of runs of Salmon over the past half-dozen years in numbers sufficient to provide a sport salmon fishery, the relatively small fishing area has again become popular during the short, intense season. Many anglers crowding in about 6 miles of river have resulted in many access points that simply are not adequate. Trails in inappropriate locations have been created, and those trails provide ready avenues for silt, mud and dirt to be washed or to flow into the sensitive South Fork. The addition of FlowCheck® products, engineered, designed and constructed by the ELWd division of Forest Concepts, LLC, to the mix of methods and tools used to obliterate and rehabilitate those poor trails, would accomplish a number of things. It is hoped that FlowCheck®, used here as a demonstration of whether or not they’re appropriate for such projects, will prove to be a very useful tool in such applications. Second, the use of FlowCheck®, even as a small demonstration, will allow Forest Concepts to get a couple of people back to work who’ve been laid off during a slow time. Third, the project will also benefit forest health by utilizing material thinned from the Boise National Forest, organic material that will then be returned to the forest in a useful way, helping complete the watershed cycle by returning nutrients to the watershed in a much less flammable form. The project would seem to be a perfect fit in Cascade – it creates some employment in Cascade, it utilizes small diameter trees removed from the forest, which in turn benefits forest health and reduces fire risk. |
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11. Project Description: What this grant is intended to do is provide funds for the purchase of 10 pallets of Forest Concepts’ FlowCheck® product of three different lengths, 30 inches, 60 inches and 90 inches. Those devices, which consist of several lengths of sub-5 inch diameter logs, primarily lodgepole, joined by spars that are fastened by wood wedges, act as silt and mud dams, holding back runoff that would otherwise foul area waterways. There are 15-20 trails, along a stretch of the South Fork between mileposts ??? and ???, that are appropriate for testing the application of FlowCheck®. Several are 80 feet top to bottom, but most are shorter, 20-40 feet in length. Most of the slopes involved are 40-60 percent category. But those longer trails are also the steepest, with some approaching 90 percent in slope. FlowCheck® devices would be placed a couple of feet apart, as appropriate, and connected into the adjacent hillsides. Once in place, small logging slash and mulch and seed will be planted to further speed rehabilitation of the obliterated trails. |
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Stibnite/Forest Concepts Demonstration Project (#03025) ) – Mike Stewart, Cascade Forest Resource Center, City of Cascade
Total Project Cost: $7,000
Title II Request: $7,000
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10. Statement of Project Purpose and Expected Outcomes [Sec. 203(b)(1), and (b)(5)]: Demonstration of the use of Forest Concepts FlowCheck® products as a means to stabilize a slope in a former mining area. The requested funds will purchase FlowCheck® products for use by the Forest Service personnel who are doing slope stabilization and rehabilitation work at the former Stibnite mining site. |
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11. Project Description: Using a product of the forest – small diameter logs – Forest Concepts will help solve a forest problem, that of unstable soils and mine tailings in the Stibnite area. Forest Concepts will produce, in kit form, their River Logs structures, which will then be placed by volunteers under the direction of U.S. Forest Service personnel according to the reclamation plans that they’ve developed. For the demonstration, Forest Service personnel will apply a grid of modified FlowCheck® products in a grid-like fashion to an area of about 100 by 100 feet. |
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