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Treatment Needs: Cle Elum Planning Area M.aintenance tre?tmgnts: A portion of existing open forests on drysites need prescribed fire or mechanical methods to maintain open conditions by reducing ground fuels and excessive small trees ihat have grown in. An estimated 2,500 - 5,500 acres of treatments is currently recommended. Many of these areas have been recenfly treated, but will fill in over the next 10-'l 5 years. ffineislni;; '+# {$ f, f; Open forest after ffi n,*fffif Open forest with small trees growing in maintenance treatment Drv forest: Treating 8,000 - 11,000 acres of dense, dry forest acres (Table 1, Fig. 3) is recommended to flip the dry portion of the landscape from being dominated by dense conditions to open forest (Fig. 4. Extensive firewise treatments on parcels with homes are the highest priority. Onpublic and private forestland without homes, creating larger patches of open canopy, fire resistant forest will reduce the current fragmentation of the dry for- est area and facilitate fire protection for communities. The priority treatments are on the north and south slopes of the valley to create defensible space zones. Moist and Gold forest: Treating 7,500-12,000 acres of dense, moist and cold forest is recommended to break up large patches of dense, multistory forest. This will reduce risk of a large crown fire and help current moist forests adapt to a warming climate. Shifting species composition toward ponderosa pine and wester larch is also recommended to increase fire, insect, and drought resistance. Treatments in large, medium and small diameter forest are needed. Post treatment, more than 1/2 of moist and cold forest will still be ina dense condition, leaving sufficient buffer for when characteristic fires burn dense forest habitat. Pre-treatment forest structure tvpes Post-treatment forest structure tvpes Medium Open #fflffr, Large Open ffi 6* ' .*fi1,, *lf Small Dense (Treatment tvoel Large-Medium Dense Figure 3. Potential Treatment Areas. Total area of target structure classes is shown. Onty a portion needs fo he treated. See Tahle 1. 'r Smali Qpen r l\4ed-Large Open r$nrall Dense rMed-Larg€ Dense 7\o/a 60dlo 45% 2no.1 ll MM# 150,/o QVa tct t0 .to C) TL c {t)0 oI ll o*".'*ffi"*o\".+l*oN ' qio\- Figure 4. Current & post treat- ment percent of forest types. * mid-point of treatment range lr Dry Small Dense Moist Small Dense m Dry M€d-Large Dense f Moist-cold Med-Large Dense ffi DryMed-Largeopen to Treatfrrest $lze Oass Trcatnent DryDense MoistCold Dense DryOpen Non+omme n + fuels trea fire onlymay eneration harveslornon-commercial fire on ntw re posmmerical thin + Anticipated Treatment T)/pe Maintenance: prescribed fire or mechanical fuels treabnent { . DNR Tribat f orw a or state frt,i:J r'rco-r,runicipat f, usrs m tndustrial [ -u,.' reoe,a, Hnvale g, and decision making processes to determine acres and types ofgoals while meeting their own management objectives anO relirtatory Overall treatment needs: nation of treatments will be needed to accomplish this goal and mechanical fuel reduction. However,are commercially considerations willaccess, logging systems, habitat type. Maintenance treatments on assessments, plannin the overall landscape Treat n estian atedm 51 to500s acres dof ense23,000 fo tsrest dedrecommen e 1 coA bim(Tabl ).and ncludeI commercialmay an non-commerciald thinning prescribed rvestshafire,regeneration Based treeon stze class,of acresthemany bvta le.road u rereq ments,timberimpactsaquatic and othermarkets,d eter-treatmentmtne areacres,0002,500-6 recomalso mended lndividual landowners wt con-lt(Fis 5)theiduct ownr field treatments cantheytooutteveachGarryrements.requi Table 1. Forest Health Treatment Need 5. Land