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Wallagrass Harvest RulesMany town have rules that regulate timber harvesting and other activities. This is especially true around water sources. These rules are taken from the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance for Wallagrass. Before implementing these rules, check with the town manager or code enforcement officer to make sure these rules have not changed. Also check the zoning map for protected area locations. If you are clearing vegetation for development, read the appropriate section. 4.11 Timber Harvesting The following requirements apply to timber harvesting to the extent that timber harvesting is a permitted use with specific land use districts. 1. Except when surface waters are frozen, skid trails and skid roads shall not utilize stream channels with a culvert or bridge according to the water crossing requirements specified in Section 4.4. 2. Timber harvesting operations within shorelands of major bodies of standing water and major flowing waters shall be conducted in the following manner. a. Within 50 feet of the normal high water mark of such waters, no clearcutting shall be allowed and harvesting operations shall be conducted in such a manner that a well-distributed stand of trees is retained so as to maintain the aesthetic and recreational value and water quality of the area and to reasonably avoid sedimentation of surface waters. b. At distances greater than 50 feet from the normal high water mark of such water, harvesting activities may not create single openings greater than 7,500 square feet in the forest canopy. In such areas single canopy openings shall be no closer than 100 feet apart. c. Harvesting shall not remove, in any ten-year period, more than 40 percent of the volume of trees on each acre involved of trees 6 inches diameter and larger measured at 4 1/2 feet above ground level. Removal of trees less than 6 inches in diameter; measured as above, is permitted if otherwise in conformance with these regulations. For the purpose of these standards, volume may be determined as being equivalent to basal area. d. No accumualtion of slash shall be left with 50 feet of the normal high water mark of such waters. As distances greater than 50 feet from the normal high water mark of such water, all slash larger than 3 inches in diameter shall be disposed of in such a manner than no part thereof extends more than 4 feet above the ground. 3. Skid trails and other sites, where the operation of machinery use in timber harvesting results in the exposure of mineral soil, shall be located such that in unscarified filter strip of at least the width indicated below is retained between the exposed mineral soil and the normal high water mark of surface water areas:
The provisions of this subsection 3 apply only on a face sloping toward the water, provided, however, no portion of such exposed mineral soil on a back face shall be closer than 25 feet; the provisions of this subsection 3 do not apply where skid roads cross such waters. 4. Timber harvesting operations shall be conducted in such a manner that slash is not left below the normal high water mark of standing waters, or below the normal high water mark of stream channels downstream from the point where such channels drain 300 acres of more. 5. Except when surface waters are frozen, skid trails and skid roads shall not utilize stream channels of minor flowing waters except to cross the same by the shortest possible route; unless culverts or bridges are installed in accordance with Section 4.4.2 of this ordinance, such crossings shall only use channel beds which are composed of gravel, rock or similar hard surface which would not be eroded or otherwise damaged. 6. Skid trail and skid road approaches to stream channels shall be located and designed so as to divert water runoff from the trail or road in order to prevent such runoff from directly entering the stream. 7. Timber harvesting operations along stream channels downstream from the point where they drain 300 acres or more shall be conducted in such manner that sufficient vegetation is retained to maintain shading of the surface waters, and 8. In addition to the foregoing minimum requirements provision shall otherwise be made in conducting timber harvesting operations in order to reasonably avoid sedimentation of surface waters. 4.12 Water-Related Structures 1. The first floor elevation or openings of all buildings shall be elevated at least two feet above the level of the 100 year flood, the flood of record, or, in the absence of these, the flood as defined by soil types identifiable as recent flood plain soils. 2. Piers, docks, floats, ramps, and other structures lying in or projecting into water bodies shall meet the following standards: a. Access from the shore shall be developed so as to reasonably avoid sedimentation of water bodies. b. Their location shall not interfere with developed public beach areas and other public uses and shall not adversely affect fish habitat. c. So far as possible, their location shall be protected from damage by storm and flood. d. They shall be no larger than necessary to serve their purpose. e. They shall comply with all requirements of the laws and regulations of the State of Maine.
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