Raintree Forest Health Project
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2012012021
Lead Agency
El Dorado County
Document Title
Raintree Forest Health Project
Document Type
MND - Mitigated Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
National Forest Lands
Document Description
The Placerville Ranger District on the Eldorado National Forest proposes restorative and preventative treatments and management actions in order to improve the forest health and re-establish a sustainable landscape condition on public lands within the Raintree project area. The Placerville Ranger District proposes to implement activities to reduce fuel loads and fire hazards, and to improve wildlife habitat, watershed condition, and forest growth, while considering effects on other resources and activities. Treatments and other management actions will commence in 2012 and be completed by 2017. Proposed activities will include commercial and pre-commercial understory thinning of mixed conifer stands and plantations, enhancing aspen and hardwood habitat, removing hazard trees adjacent to system roads and dispersed camping areas, reconstructing and repairing system roads, grapple and machine piling, masticating brush and small trees, restoring watershed function, and prescribed understory burning.
The Raintree project area is situated south of Hwy 50, and south of the Mormon Emigrant Trail Road, including the general area between Capps Crossing and Leek Spring Lookout. The Project Area covers approximately 9,144 acres located entirely in El Dorado County. Elevations range from 5,000 feet at the North Fork Consumnes River on the west edge of the project area to 6,500 feet on Baltic Ridge on the north edge of the project area. The area is accessed from Hwy 50 by Sly Park Road to Mormon Emigrant Trail Road then to the North South and Meiss Roads.
Contact Information
Name
Mark Egbert
Agency Name
El Dorado County Resource Conservation District
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Counties
El Dorado
Cross Streets
North South Road and Meiss Road
Zip
95726
Total Acres
9144
Waterways
Cosumnes River
Township
9,10N
Range
14,15E
Section
1-36
Base
MDB&M
Other Location Info
City/Nearest Community: Pollock Pines
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
Cal Fire, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 3 (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)
State Reviewing Agency Comments
California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Geology/Soils, Minor land alteration
Disclaimer: The document was originally posted before CEQAnet had the capability to host attachments for the public. To obtain the original attachments for this document, please contact the lead agency at the contact information listed above. You may also contact the OPR via email at state.clearinghouse@opr.ca.gov or via phone at (916) 445-0613.