Soap Creek Fuelbreak Maintenance
Summary
SCH Number
2012048361
Public Agency
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
(CAL FIRE)
Document Title
Soap Creek Fuelbreak Maintenance
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/30/2012
Document Description
The project shall consist of vegetation removal with hand crews as a means to maintain an existing shaded fuelbreak originally established by CAL FIRE in the early 1960s.
The project area is 1.75 miles in length and 200 feet in width or 100 feet on each side of the Soap Creek Ridgeline. The project area is 42 acres in size, and 42 acres shall be treated. Treatment shall entail pruning trees to a height of 8 to 10 feet, removing brush species, thinning understory trees which are 8" DBH or less, and removing existing ground feels between 1" and 5" in diameter. All of the woody material generated by maintenance activity shall piled and burned. The project may also entail removal of an invasive plant (Dyer's Woad) if present.
Contact Information
Name
Mike Rosan
Agency Name
Cal Fire
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
Siskiyou
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
S:15304
Reasons for Exemption
Minor alterations of vegetation which do not involve removal of healthy, mature, scenic trees.
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