Deschutes National Forest and Bureau of Land Management

Bend, Oregon

Three separate forest residue (slash) bundling demonstrations took place in central Oregon from September 15 through 26, 3003. The demonstrations took place in ponderosa and lodgepole pine stands located near LaPine, Oregon. Bundling occurred in pre-commercial thinning slash and slash piles from tree length harvesting. Utilization of bundles occurred at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation Tribal Mill as fuel for cogeneration of electricity. Other potential uses included road closure barriers, fish structures, stream stabilizers, erosion control sediment catches around roads and burn areas, waddles, and micro supplies of art material.

• John Deere John Deere Demo - Preliminary Soils Discussion (PDF, 44 KB) - a memo discussing preliminary observations of the John Deere John Deere Bundler.
• Machine Demonstration Shows New Way to Collect Biomass - a Forest Service local area news release of the Deschutes & Ochoco National Forests.
• Slash Bundler News Release for September 2003 (PDF, 13 KB) - Ochoco and Deschutes National Forests news release announcing the date and time of the slash bundler demonstration.
• Finding A Use For Juniper Trees - an interview conducted by Ley Garnett of Oregon Public Broadcasting regarding the Deschutes Bundler Demonstration.

A lodgepole pine stand near La Pine, Oregon, precommercially thinned by hand-felling. Slash bundling was successful o this small, whole lodgepole pine material.	The John Deere 1490D "Slash Bundler" effectively bundled whole dry and green western juniper.
A site on the Crooked River National Grassland was restored by hand-felling western juniper to release other shrubs and grasses.	Needles and fine stems remain on-site with the bundling of green slash, almost as well as the bundling of dry slash.
A series of three different slash bundling demonstrations were conducted. All demonstrations were well-attended. This picture shows a rangelands restoration demonstration.	Juniper bundles were transported to the Warm Springs Forest Products Industries for grinding and burning tests.

Contact

Cindy Glick
Email: cglick@fs.fed.us
Telephone: (541) 383-5495