Forest & Oak Habitat Restoration

Project:  Noxious Weed Mapping
Client:  North Santiam Watershed Council
Dates:  Summer – Fall 2010
Services Provided:  During the summer and Fall of 2010, IRM will be providing GPS data collection of known and potential noxious weeds through a process called early detection rapid response (EDRR).  With this data, IRM and the client will produce maps, develop and carryout treatment procedures including herbicide application.  This project will encompass both public and private property in Marion County, OR.

Project:  False Brome Eradication and Control
Client:  Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council
Dates:  June – July 2010
Services Provided:  During the spring of 2010, IRM was awarded a contract to complete false brome eradication on private property within the conservation area of the Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council.  Duties included navigating to previously mapped false brome populations using GPS, treating the populations and documenting the results.  

Project:  Mahler/Briggs Restoration
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  June 2010
Services Provided:  During the Spring of 2010, IRM was contracted by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to conduct prairie restoration services using a foliar herbicide application.  Due to the fact that years of restoration had already been invested into the sites, it was necessary to avoid upwards of seven native prairie species while targeting nine non-native species.  

Project: Ford Spray
Client: Steven Ford
Date:  June 2010
Services Provided: The Ford property is located in the outskirts of Philomath, OR.  IRM conducted herbicide application on false brome that is encroaching from a woodlot adjacent to the property.  

Project:  Deadlog Old Growth Ponderosa Pine Restoration
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Date:  May 2010
Services Provided: IRM developed a silvicultural prescription for restoration within old growth ponderosa pine stands, and trained USFS marking crews on the Deadlog Stewardship Project on the Deschutes National Forest. 

Project: BPA Powerline Spray
Client: Institute for Applied Ecology
Date:  May 2010
Services Provided: In May of 2009, IRM worked The Nature Conservancy to combat the spread of the invasive species blessed milk thistle on the Oak Basin conservation easement near Brownsville, OR.  The project consisted of managing an eight person labor crew to treat known populations of the invasive species with a foliar herbicide application.  In addition, the crew scoured the property to identify and treat previously undetected population of the blessed milk thistle.

Project:  Sogge Habitat Restoration Plan
Client:  Long Tom Watershed Council
Date:  February – May 2010
Services Provided: IRM developed a habitat restoration plan for this property near Eugene, Oregon. The plan designed future desired conditions through a series of vegetation treatments including thinning, burning and native plant revegetation. 

Project:  Logging Camp Oak Restoration
Client:  Columbia Land Trust
Date: April 2010
Services Provided: Columbia Gorge oak habitats are being restored throughout this steep canyon. IRM has been implementing the plan it designed in 2006 with treatments including thinning, prescribed fire and native plant seeding. 

Project: Maxfield Creek Restoration 
Client: Institute for Applied Ecology
Date:  March 2010
Services Provided: In the spring of 2010, IRM assisted the Institute for Applied Ecology in the hand pulling of false brome throughout a portion of riparian habitat managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Benton County, OR.  Throughout the course of this project, IRM directed a five person labor crew in the proper identification, proper removal techniques and disposal of false brome.

Project:  Landowner Incentive Program - Wesson
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  April 2008 – March 2010
Services Provided:   The Wesson property consists of 138 acres of oak savannah, maple-ash swale, and agriculture land.  Forest Restoration Partnership has implemented a management plan to restore 61 acres of the property to native habitat.  The restoration plan consists of wildlife surveys, herbicide application of noxious weeds, brush mastication, thinning of overstocked oak woodland, and native plant seeding.

Project: Sinlahekin Pine Habitat Restoration 
Client: The Nature Conservancy 
Date:  August 2009 – March 2010
Services Provided: IRM was hired to design a restoration project in the dry ponderosa pine forests on the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area, managed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WDFW). The project involved assessment,  design, tree marking, a cruise and market analysis, and training of WDFW crews on marking complex thinning prescriptions. The design focused on achieving wildlife habitat objectives for focal species and was modeled after reference era conditions. These are the first WDFW lands to be FSC certified.  Prescriptions were integrated with the state's plans for a model prescribed burning program throughout the wildlife area.  

Project:  Head Stewardship Project
Client:  Melcher Logging Companies – Contract with USFS Deschutes National Forest
Dates:  November 2008 – March 2010
Services Provided:  IRM is teamed with Melcher Logging to provide restorative mowing services on the Head Stewardship Project located in the Metolius Basin on the Deschutes National Forest.  IRM used hand crews to cut and pile hundreds of acres small diameter Ponderosa pine.

Project: Coyote Creek Oak Restoration Landowner Outreach
Client: Long Tom Watershed Council and Salix Associates
Date:  January – February 2010
Services Provided: As part of a landowner outreach program by the watershed council, IRM was selected to consult with private landowners about enhancement and management options for oak habitats in the Coyote Creek Watershed. 

Project:  Rhoads Restoration
Client:  Geoff Rhoads
Dates:  August – September 2009, January 2010
Services Provided:   The Rhodes property restoration effort was undertaken during the summer of 2009.  This 40 acre property consists of a combination fir woodland and oak savannah located near West Linn, Oregon.  To date, the primary objectives of the restoration effort have consisted of mastication of well established noxious weeds, herbicide application on re-sprouts and native seeding of grasses and forbs.

Project:  Coburg Ridge
Client:   The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  May, August-September 2009, January 2010
Services Provided:   The Coburg Ridge Conservation Easement contains 1,200+ acres of forest, savanna, and grassland in the Coburg Hills at the margin of the McKenzie River, on the north outskirts of Springfield, Oregon.  Over the course of the past several years, IRM has been working with The Nature Conservancy who maintains a conservation easement on a portion of the property to restore critical habitat.  During the late summer of 2009 IRM lead a noxious weed control effort in and around an area of the property known to have a remnant population of the endangered species’ Fender’s Blue Butterfly and Kincaid’s Lupine. In addition, IRM conducted selective tree marking and a grade cruise of roughly 190 acres of degraded oak savannah habitat, which is scheduled to be thinned in the summer of 2010.      

Project:  Camp Polk Meadow Restoration
Client:   Deschutes Land Trust
Dates:  September 2009
Services Provided:   IRM assisted in the development and implementation of a weed management plan on this large stream and floodplain restoration project near Sisters, Oregon. 

Project:  Big Island Spray
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Dates:  April and September 2009
Services Provided:   Big Island is a remnant riparian ecosystem which is managed by the McKenzie River Trust and is located on the McKenzie River just outside of Eugene, OR.  Restoration efforts during the spring and summer of 2009 focused on foliar herbicide application of noxious weeds including Japanese Knotweed, Himalayan blackberry and Scot’s broom.  In addition, IRM preformed riparian release of riparian tree seedlings that were being out competed by reed canary grass.

Project:  Willow Creek Climate Change Plots
Client:   University of Oregon
Dates:  August 2009
Services Provided:    IRM worked with the University of Oregon to establish a series of climate change research plots across three sites from Southern Washington to Southern Oregon.  IRM applied glyphosate to each of the 50M by 50M research plots in order to reestablish native grasses and track changes in growth patterns over time due to controlled variables such as carbon dioxide, which were altered to mimic climate change.  At one of the three sites, IRM was contracted to remove encroaching Douglas fir trees from an oak savannah in order to standardize the sample design of the project.     

Project: Warner Mountains Aspen 
Client: South Lane School District, Freemont-Winema National Forest
Date:  May – September 2009
Services Provided: IRM initiated a project to survey and assess the health of aspen groves throughout the South Warner Mountains, on the Freemont National Forest. IRM trained and supervised a youth crew from Cottage Grove, Oregon during the summer of 2009. Over 1,000 acres of aspen were mapped and assessed. 

Project: Oak Basin Blessed Milk Thistle Control
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Date:  May 2009
Services Provided: In May of 2009, IRM worked The Nature Conservancy to combat the spread of the invasive species blessed milk thistle on the Oak Basin conservation easement near Brownsville, OR.  The project consisted of managing an eight person labor crew to treat known populations of the invasive species with a foliar herbicide application.  In addition, the crew scoured the property to identify and treat previously undetected population of the blessed milk thistle.

Project:  Landowner Incentive Program - Carnine
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  2007- 2009
Services Provided:   Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on  600 acres in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Northwest Ponderosa Pine Cavity Nesting Bird Habitat Restoration
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Date:  2007-2009
Services Provided: IRM developed thinning and snag creation prescriptions and implemented treatments on 8 private ranches in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington.

Project:  MP Stewardship Snag Creation Project
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Date:  November 2008 – March 2009
Services Provided: With the enthusiastic cooperation of the Marys Peak Stewardship Group, Forest Restoration Partnership applied for, and was granted $25,662 to create 186 snags on private properties adjacent to the Siuslaw national forest.  These properties were uniquely situated to provide habitat connectivity from the City of Corvallis Forest to the Forest Service for the Spotted Owls, and other predatory birds.  With the help from Wildlife biologists from the Forest Service, unique topping prescriptions were created and then implemented by Dunn and Company Tree Services.  Permanent tags were placed on trees, and maps of tree locations were created so that landowners could more easily implement monitoring for ten years into the future.

Project:  Oregon Aspen Project
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Date:  2007-2009
Services Provided: IRM conducted outreach to landowners throughout Eastern Oregon to instruct management practices and monitoring to enhance aspen stands.  Work included supervision of treatments including conifer removal, planting and fencing.

Project:  Ford Property Spray
Client:  Steven Ford
Dates:  Fall 2008
Services Provided:   The Ford property is located in the outskirts of Philomath, OR.  IRM conducted herbicide application on false brome that is encroaching from a woodlot adjacent to the property.  

Project:  Knotweed Spray
Client:  Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District
Dates:  Fall 2008
Services Provided:   In the summer of 2008, IRM was hired to complete the annual herbicide treatment of knotweed in Lincoln County, OR.  The project consisted of navigating stream and river channels to knotweed populations, use a combination of foliar and injection herbicide treatments, collect a new GPS coordinate and document the site.

Project:  Ohman Property Spray
Client:  Janet Ohman
Dates:  Fall 2008
Services Provided:   The Ohmann property is located just north east of the city of Corvallis, and shares a property line with the Oregon State University Research Forest.  Through seed dispersal and animal traffic, seeds from the invasive grass species false brome have become established on the Ohmann property.  In 2008 IRM conducted a follow up herbicide treatment on the false brome stragglers and new seedling that survived a 2007 herbicide treatment.  In addition IRM treated poison oak in two areas that had become the dominant surface cover due to a commercial thin also conducted by IRM. 

Project:  Powell Oak Restoration
Client:  Polk Soil and Water Conservation District
Dates:  June - November 2008
Services Provided:   IRM conducted a oak restoration project for a small landowner near Dallas Oregon.  IRM used its Lightfoot™ machines to masticate unwanted brush and weeds in the understory of a Oregon White Oak forest.  Larger material was felled by hand and piled and burned.  This treatment will ensure the long term health and vigor of the Oregon White Oak forest.

Project:  Oak Savanna Restoration
Client:  Jan Reaves
Date:  June – November 2008
Services Provided: IRM developed and implemented a series of herbicide and native grass/forb seeding treatments on this southern Lane County property.  The goals of this project center on developing techniques to restore native bunchgrass communities currently dominated by non-native annual grasses.  This study will be monitored over a ten-year period by IRM.

Project:  Coburg Ridge Broom and Blackberry Control
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Date:  June-September 2008
Services Provided: IRM is completing mastication and herbicide treatments on the TNC’s Coburg Ridge Property to reclaim oak savanna and prairie habitats.

Project:  False-Brome Spray
Client:  Oregon State University College Forest
Dates:  Spring – Fall 2008
Services Provided:    In 2008 staff working for the forestry department at OSU were awarded a restoration grant through the Oregon Department of Agriculture to combat false brome on the Research Forest.  The fieldwork and mapping was carried out by IRM.  The scope of the project was to identify isolated false brome patches in areas where the false brome had not yet become established, treat the patch and monitor the results. 

Project:  Invasive Weed Spray
Client:  Oregon State University College Forest
Dates:  Spring – Fall 2008
Services Provided:    The OSU invasive weed spray consists of the herbicide treatment of several different invasive species found on the OSU Research Forest and Arboretum.  The project spans several months, in order to optimize the proper timing of each of the various invasive species being treated and reduce the negative impact on surrounding flora and fauna.  In many of the cases, IRM is treating species that have just recently arrived on the premises and have the potential to be eradicated for the time being.    

Project:  Philomath Prairie Spray
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  Spring – Fall 2008
Services Provided:   Philomath Prairie is a part of conservation easement overseen by The Nature Conservancy, on Weyerhaeuser property.  The property contains a mix of conifer and remnant oak savannah, with a great diversity of native plants.  IRM has been assisting the TNC in the monitoring and treatment of false brome on the property for a number of years.  In the fall of 2008 IRM was hired to design and implement a inventory of the site to determine the coverage of false brome and subsequently the progress being made combating its spread.   

Project:  East of Airport Stand Improvements
Client:  EENW           
Date:  January 2007 – April 2008
Services Provided: A plantation of Douglas-fir trees, planted off site, was experiencing very poor growth as well as harboring Swiss needle cast disease (SNC), which was further decreasing its ability to photosynthesize and produce volume. Through needle nutrient analysis, we were able to conclude that there was no significant nutrient imbalances, which recent science has shown predisposes Douglas-fir stands to SNC infection.  Our solution was then to replace the stand by mastication of the Douglas-fir while avoiding damage to natural regenerating spruce and western hemlock which was already out competing the sick Doug.  In addition, the salal (Gaultheria shallon), which is a perennial with an extensive root system, was masticated to open planting spaces for spruce, hemlock and cedar.  The steeper draws at the bottom of the unit have naturally filled in with red alder, and were left untouched.  In total, just under 100 acres was masticated and planted to 6,600 each of sitka spruce, western hemlock and red cedar. 

Project:  Seessil Oak Savanna Restoration Project
Client:  City of Eugene
Dates:  2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted to develop and implement restorative prescriptions for old growth Oregon white oak savanna and dense California black oak woodlands in the West Eugene wetlands owned by the Bureau of Land Management. The site contains the largest California black oak trees in the Willamette Valley. Dense woodlands were thinned to recreate open woodland and savanna structure, snags created by topping, invasive shrubs were masticated, and native forbs and grasses were seeded.

Project:  Landowner Incentive Program - Gill
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  2007
Services Provided:   Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on  200 acres in the Oakland, Oregon.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Wild Iris Restoration
Client:  City of Eugene
Dates:  Fall 2007
Services Provided: IRM completed thinning treatments to recreate savanna habitat on 20 acres at Wild Iris Ridge, Eugene’s newest park. To limit site impacts, cut trees were removed using a forwarder. The biomass for this project was utilized to produce power, thereby reducing carbon emissions compared to standard practice of burning this material in piles. Subsequent treatments included masticating undesirable shrubs and seeding natives to achieve understory species targets of native grass and forb dominance.

Project:  Big Island Spray 2007
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Dates:  Fall 2007
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Big Island on the McKenzie River in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.

Project:  Camp Polk Pile and Burn
Client:  Deschutes Basin Land Trust
Dates:  Fall 2007
Services Provided: IRM treated encroaching juniper to reduce fuel buildup and fire hazard in ponderosa pine stands containing old growth trees on this preserve just north of Sisters, Oregon.

Project:  Cheatgrass Control
Client:  Deschutes Basin Land Trust
Dates:  Fall 2006, Spring 2007
Services Provided: IRM treated landings and roadside areas to eradicate cheatgrass on this 1,200 acre preserve east of Sisters, Oregon.

Project:  Wild Iris
Client:  Long Tom Watershed Council
Dates:  Spring-Fall 2007
Services Provided: IRM completed thinning treatments to recreate savanna habitat on 20 acres at Wild Iris Ridge, Eugene’s newest park. To limit site impacts, cut trees were removed using a forwarder. The biomass for this project was utilized to produce power, thereby reducing carbon emissions compared to standard practice of burning this material in piles. Subsequent treatments included masticating undesirable shrubs and seeding natives to achieve understory species targets of native grass and forb dominance.

Project:  Coburg/McKenzie Oaks Restoration
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  Fall 2007
Services Provided: IRM was hired to provide restoration services to the Nature Conservancy on the 1,244 acre Coburg Ridge Preserve, the largest privately owned nature sanctuary in the Willamette Valley. Herbicide treatments were applied to control Gernanium lucidum, a noxious forb invading Western Oregon forests. Our Lightfoot machine was used to clear invasive pear and hawthorne from savanna and prairie habitats. Douglas-fir trees threatening mature oaks were carefully thinned using a harvester-forwarder system to provide maximum protection to soils and vegetation.  Prior to implementation work, we completed an analysis of current management plans and made recommendations to improve effectiveness of treatments and monitoring.

Project:  Bald Hill Spraying
Client:              City of Corvallis
Dates:              November 2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the City of Corvallis to spray noxious weeds throughout the Bald Hill Recreational Area in Corvallis, Oregon.

Project:  Brush Mowing – Oak Release
Client:  Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
Dates:  September 2007
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 24 acres for an oak release project.

Project:  Emery Roadside Spray
Client:  EENW
Date:  September 2007
Services Provided: To keep the EENW road system open and prevent future spread of noxious weeds, IRM applied herbicide to approximately 10 miles of road in a region of the ownerhship where scotch broom is known to exist.

Project:  Invasive Weed Control
Client:  Oregon State University – College Forests
Dates: Summer-Fall 2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Oregon State University College Forests to assist in invasive weed removal throughout the MacDonald and Dunn Forests.

Project:  Gallagher Oak Restoration
Client:  Jack Gallagher
Dates:  Spring-Summer 2007
Services Provided: In the summer of 2007, IRM implemented an Oregon White Oak restoration thinning project on a 50 acre ownership near Corvallis OR.  Treatments were designed to release Oak from conifer encroachment, and provide for the long term viability of the stand.  IRM handled all aspect of the operation which included: silvicultural prescriptions, timber marking, log marketing, logging contract supervision, and slash treatment.  IRM used a Cut-To-Length logging system to minimize damage to the residual stand, and maximize log utilization and efficiency.  Activity fuels were masticated using IRM’s Lightfoot™ machine.

Project:  Ohmann Oak Restoration
Client:  Janet Ohmann
Dates:  Spring-Summer 2007
Services Provided: In the summer of 2007, IRM implemented an Oregon White Oak restoration thinning project on a 32 acre ownership near Corvallis OR.  Treatments were designed to release Oak from conifer encroachment, and provide for the long term viability of the stand.  IRM handled all aspect of the operation which included: silvicultural prescriptions, timber marking, log marketing, logging contract supervision, and slash treatment.  IRM used a Cut-To-Length logging system to minimize damage to the residual stand, and maximize log utilization and efficiency.  Activity fuels were masticated using IRM’s Lightfoot™ machine.

Project:  Brush Mowing - Oak Release
Client:  Bob Bray
Dates:  July 2007 
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 12 acres for an oak release project.

Project:  Oak Thinning and Restoration
Client:  Steven Groh
Dates:  October 2006 – June 2007
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 120 acres of fuels reduction and oak restoration efforts.

Project:  Emery Roadside Spray
Client:  EENW
Date:  September 2007           
Services Provided: To keep the EENW road system open and prevent future spread of noxious weeds, IRM applied herbicide to approximately 10 miles of road in a region of the ownerhship where scotch broom is known to exist.

Project:  Morrison Park Restoration
Client:  Hood River Parks Department
Dates:              April 2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Hood River Parks and Recreation Department to assist in the removal of noxious weeds.  IRM supervised labor crews to pile masticated noxious plant material, and hand pull Himalayan Blackberry from stream banks.  Followed up by spraying noxious weed regrowth and nonnative grass.  Project area was then seeded with native grass and forb species in Hood River, Oregon.

Project:  Crosswell Restoration
Client:  Bright Crosswell
Dates:  Fall 2006
Services Provided: IRM treated blackberry and other noxious weeds in meadow/savanna habitat on this property in south Eugene, and seeded the area to re-establish native grasses.

Project:  Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - Oak Restoration - Gill
Client:              Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  September 2006           
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on  200 acres in the Oakland, Oregon.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - Oak Restoration - Carnine
Client:              Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:              September 2006
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on  600 acres in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Oak Restoration
Client:              McKenzie River Trust
Dates:  September 2006
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by McKenzie River Trust to assist in oak restoration work on  600 acres in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Kingston Prairie Brush Mowing
Client:              The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  March, June-September 2006
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 40 acres of upland prairie restoration.

Project:  Big Island Restoration
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Date:  Summer 2006
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Big Island on the McKenzie River in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.

Project:  Bald Hill Spraying
Client:              City of Corvallis
Dates:  Summer 2006           
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the City of Corvallis to spray noxious weeds throughout the Bald Hill Recreational Area in Corvallis, Oregon.

Project:  Oak Restoration
Client:  Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation  
Dates:  April – June 2006
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 15 acres for oak restoration.

Project:  Snag Trial
Client:  Deschutes Basin Land Trust
Dates:  Spring 2006
Services Provided: IRM designed and installed an experiment to determine the most effective snag creation methods to increase wildlife use in young ponderosa pine trees. Treatments included beetle pheromones, girdling, topping, and a combination of girdling and pheromones. Preliminary results suggest pheromone treatments best simulated natural tree mortality while encouraging woodpecker foraging.

Project:  Kingston Prairie Brush Mowing
Client:              The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  March, June-September 2006
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the Nature Conservancy to restore Kingston Prairie in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees.

Project:  Bunchgrass Community Restoration Trail
Client:  Columbia Land Trust
Date:  Summer-Fall 2005
Services Provided:  IRM developed a series of burning, herbicide and native grass seeding treatments and implemented these in oak savannas on the Dillacourt Conservation Area, in Klickitat County, Washington.  The goals of this project center on developing techniques to restore native Idaho fescue/prairie junegrass bunchgrass communities currently dominated by non-native annual grasses.  This study will be monitored over a 10-year period by IRM and the results published.

Project:  Reichman Oak Woodland Thin
Client:  Lynn Reichman
Date:  Summer-Fall 2005
Services Provided:  IRM was hired to complete a variable density thinning on 100 acres of oak woodlands outside of Eugene, Oregon.  The oak woodland had been encroached with Douglas-fir trees.  One of the objectives of this project was to remove as many of the encroaching Douglas-firs as possible.  The second objective of this thinning was to help create a healthy stand by harvesting the mature Grand firs that have become infested by the fir engraver beetle.  The third objective was to generate revenue for the present and future oak restoration work that will be conducted on this property.  The landowner is currently working towards being granted a conservation easement to ensure that the property is low-impact harvested in the future and that oak restoration continues.

Project:  Oak Restoration
Client:  Mary’s Peak Natural Resource Interpretive Center
Dates:  August 2005
Services Provided:  The Lightfoot™ was mounted with the Fecon Bullhog to mow and masticate 2 acres for oak restoration.

Project:  Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - Oak Restoration - Bald Hill
Client:              Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  Summer 2005
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on the Bald Hill Recreational Area in Corvallis, Oregon.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - Oak Restoration - Reaves
Client:              Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  Summer 2005
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on the Reaves Property in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - Oak Restoration - Carnine
Client:              Forest Restoration Partnership
Dates:  Summer 2005
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contract by Forest Restoration Partnership to assist in oak restoration work on  600 acres in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Duties performed included various land management techniques and ecological restoration strategies including: clearing brush, brush piling, controlled burns, and herbicide application on invasive and exotic forb, shrub, and tree species.

Project:  Oak Knoll Restoration at Hendricks Park
Client:  Friends of Hendricks Park, Salix Associates
Date:  Spring-Summer 2005
Services Provided:  IRM was hired to design and layout restorative prescriptions at Oak Knoll, within the heavily used Hendrick's Park.  The focus of this work is to release Oregon white oak and California black oak, while protecting the scenic and recreational values in this area.

Project:  Popcorn Swale Brush Mowing
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  October – November 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the Nature Conservancy to restore Popcorn Swale in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees.

Project:  Klickitat Landscape Level Oak Restoration Project 
Client:  Forest Restoration Partnership
Date:  Summer-Fall 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management restored oak savannas and woodlands in the Klickitat River Canyon, an area that contains the largest concentration of these habitats in Washington State.  Activities included thinning stands to remove conifers and over-stocked oak, use of goats and brush mowing to reduce shrub cover, and native seeding to re-establish bunchgrass communities.  Silvicultural prescriptions were based on reducing extreme fire behavior and associated fire effects, increasing mast production and tree vigor, and habitat needs of the western grey squirrel.  A combination of low impact skid steer (LightfootTM) with a sheer, and hand crews were used during thinning operations.

Project:  Bald Hill Spraying
Client:              City of Corvallis
Dates:  Summer 2004           
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the City of Corvallis to spray noxious weeds throughout the Bald Hill Recreational Area in Corvallis, Oregon.

Project:  Big Island Restoration
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Date:  Summer 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Big Island on the McKenzie River in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees.  IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.

Project:  Green Island Restoration
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Date:  Summer 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Green Island on the Willamette River in the Southern Willamette Valley.  IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees.  IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.

Project:  Gossler Farms Spray 
Client:  McKenzie Watershed Council
Date:  Summer 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management completed a release herbicide spray treatment of conifer and hardwood seedlings planted by the McKenzie Watershed Council along Cedar Creek, a tributary of the McKenzie River.  The spray achieves excellent results targeting invasive weeds including reed canary grass and Armenian blackberry.

Project:  Philomath Prairie Spray
Client:  The Nature Conservancy
Date:  Summer 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contracted by The Nature Conservancy to treat false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), a highly invasive woodland grass species on the Philomath Prairie Preserve, outside of Corvallis, Oregon.  False brome populations were located in the understory of oak and conifer woodlands and sprayed with careful attention to not damage native grasses and forbs.

Project:  Bald Hill Farms
Client:  Greenbelt Land Trust
Dates:  August 2004
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Greenbelt Land Trust to spray noxious weeds throughout the Bald Hill Farms in Corvallis, Oregon, which is adjacent to the Bald Hill Recreational Area.

Project:  Knotweed Spraying
Client:  McKenzie River Trust
Dates:  July 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to treat Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.

Project:  Rowena Wilds Oak Restoration and Fuels Reduction
Client:  Rowena Wilds Landowners
Date:  Winter 2004
Services Provided: Rowena Wilds is a planned rural housing development that was designed around strict ecological covenants.  The 200 acres community located at the eastern edge of the Columbia Gorge, southeast of Mosier, Oregon contains high-quality remnant pine and oak habitats that have been encroached with fir and oak regeneration.  IRM worked closely with Rowena Wild’s landowners to design forest restoration prescriptions to reduce forest fuels and restore savanna habitats.  Funding was provided by a fuel reduction grant from the Oregon Department of Forestry.  IRM designed silvicultural prescriptions that achieved the fuel reduction standards required by the state, while enhancing oak habitat, and preserving the visual qualities of the forest using a technique called “mosaic thinning”.  Restorative treatments were tailored to the specific needs of each landowner to maintain a desired aesthetic.  IRM completed thinnings, removed slash and re-seeded burn piles.

Project:  Nelson Family Oak and Pine Forest Management and Restoration Plan
Client:  Nelson Family
Dates:  Fall-Winter 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management assisted the Nelson family in developing a forest management plan on their 500 acre property overlooking the town of Lowell.  This ownership contains abundant oak and pine woodlands including some of the largest valley pine in the state.  These old growth remnants date back 400 years when the foothill landscape around Lowell was cloaked in oak and pine savanna.  The trees are in decline due to overstocking from encroaching fir trees.  It is also a prominent landmark for the town.  Therefore, maintaining a visually appealing landscape is a big concern and will guide future forest management activities on the property.  IRM helped the Nelson’s decide how to manage the forest resource, by analyzing an optimum mosaic of prairie, savanna, and woodland habitats to benefit remnant old growth trees, life cycles needs of wildlife species associated with each of these conditions, and visual concerns.  Specific restorative prescriptions were developed to guide the Nelson family, who will be carrying out most of the restoration work.  A fascinating aspect of this property is that the Nelson’s are experimenting with using goats to reduce noxious weeds and maintain desired species composition, cover and condition.  IRM  will be working closely with the family to determine how these “biological brush mowers” can be utilized in an integrated weed management system that includes limited herbicide use, mechanical brush mowing, and fire.

Project:  Ridgeline Oak Release
Client:  City of Eugene
Date:  January 2003
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management prepared silvicultural prescriptions and marked trees for removal as part of a trial oak restoration project at Spencer Butte Park, a heavily used City of Eugene property.

Project:  Oak Savanna Restoration
Client:  Linda Boyer, Consulting Botanist, Mark Krautman, Landowner
Date:  Summer 2002
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management used a low-impact skid steer equipment to remove overtopping Douglas-fir and thin dense young oak woodland to a savanna density on 10 acres.

Project:  Restoration of Oak and Pine Habitats on BLM, Eugene District
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Eugene District
Date:  November 2000 - September 2002
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management worked with a team of professionals from the Northwest Habitat Institute, Oregon Herpetological Society, Salix and Associates Botany Consultants to develop a plan to restore oak woodlands and savanna on lands managed by the Eugene District Bureau of Land Management. This project was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant. Integrated Resource Management completed a stand level inventory of oak resources among sites on BLM lands, characterizing pre-settlement conditions, and developing silvicultural prescriptions for restoration of conifer dominated sites back to oak and associated understory plant communities. Restoration practices included conifer removal using a combination of helicopters and a low-impact skid-steer crawler, small jackpot burns for fuels reduction succeeded by native grass and forbs seeding and plug planting. Pre and post treatment monitoring is planned along with development of additional treatments in this long-term project.

Project:  Snag Creation
Client:  Willamette National Forest
Date:  October – December 2001
Services provided:            IRM assisted the WNF by creating snags by saw-topping on Blue River Ranger District.  Trees were topped between 40 and 100’ in height, and innoculaterd with various types of pathogens.

Project:  Stump Springs Prescribed Burn Plan, Dixie National Forest, Escalante Utah
Client:  Sub-contractor to David Evans and Associates, per Region 4 Professional Services
Date:  November 2001 - May 2002
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management prepared prescribed fire prescriptions for the 5,000 acre Stump Springs Planning Area.

Project:  Oak Restoration Plan and Implementation for Cooke Family Forest
Client:  Cooke Family, Oregon Department of Forestry
Date:  February 2001
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management developed a resource management plan prioritizing the restoration of oak habitats on 60 acres of pasture and degraded woodlands. Plans included prescriptions to restore understory vegetation in mature oak stands, and thin dense younger oak stands to improve tree vigor. Restoration treatments were designed to create target future desired habitat conditions based on objectives of supporting home range needs of western meadowlarks and acorn woodpeckers. Treatments varied with initial condition and future habitat objectives. In open pasture, an integrated approach is being used to control invasive species and restore oak. Repeated brush mowing of  blackberry and scotch broom with low ground pressure equipment depleted root reserves followed by spot spraying of re-sprouting plants in some areas. A combination of mowing, hand cutting and hack-n-squirt treatments of exotic woody shrubs and trees were used. Oaks were regenerated by direct seeding and protecting existing seedlings and saplings from browse damage. Native grasses were restored in stages using direct seeding and interplanting techniques. In woodland habitats oaks were thinned using a variable density approach to increase tree vigor and modify tree architecture towards an open grown form of certain trees. Competing conifers were removed along with exotic cherry and hawthorne. Native grasses were seeded in using a staged approach.