OAR 629-623-0500: Timber Harvesting — Intermediate Public Safety Risk

(1) The purpose of this rule is to manage canopy closure on high landslide hazard locations with intermediate downslope public safety risk. (2) For harvesting operations that remove all or most of the largest trees, operators shall ensure that no more than half the area of high landslide hazard locations on a single ownership within the drainage or hillslope directly above the affected structure or road are in a 0 to 9 year-old age class or with reduced canopy closure in other age classes; (3) For thinning or partial cutting operations, operators shall retain a vigorous stand that allows rapid canopy closure. (4) Landowners shall use reforestation and stand management practices that result in rapid canopy closure. (5) For timber harvesting operations, landowners shall describe in the written plan required by OAR 629-623-0700 how they will manage the high landslide hazard locations on their ownership within the affected drainage or hillslope with intermediate downslope public safety risk.