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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NRCS-CPA-54
NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE 1-94
CONSERVATION EFFECTS
TREATMENT OPTIONS / Name:
Forest Acres / OPID:
Address:
Panhandle of Florida / Field or Tract No.:
Treatment Option No.
1 / Description of Treatment Option (with treatment management system):
Manage a mixed pine & hardwood stand favoring loblolly pine and red oak. Install spur spur access roads, designated skid trails, and erosion control system on roads to be applied after harvest. Seed roads and landings to grass and legumes for wildlife.
Actions – Proposed Management
(Kinds, amounts, and timing): / Effects
(Effects of conservation treatment): / Comparison of Effects of Benchmark and Treatment Option
Impacts / Decisionmaker Evaluation
Forestland erosion control system.
Prescribed burning.
Access road. / Reduced ground disturbance during harvest.
Erosion control cost estimated @ $600 for 60 acres.
Install erosion control on roads including planting roads and landings to vegetative cover.
Road and skid trail erosion reduced to less than 2 tons per acre.
Cost of shaping areas and water control bars estimated @ $600 for three acres.
Install log landing areas for use at harvest. Log landing erosion reduced to about 0.5 tons per acre.
Improved water quality due to decreased erosion.
Install 3 acres of access roads and skid trails. / No increased loss of land voiding or production due to gully formation.
Better designed harvest system.
Forest floor gully erosion stopped.
Erosion control cost estimated @ $10/acre.
Minimize erosion on roads and landings.
Erosion reduced @ 10 tons per acre.
Shaping cost estimated @ $200/acre for areas affected.
Log landing erosion reduced by 5.5 tons per acre on areas where used.
Water quality enhanced.
Reduced sedimentation in stream.
More efficient harvesting system.
Comments:
The use of brand names does not constitute an endorsement by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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FOTG – Section V-A-2 CroplandFLORIDA July 1995