Jenner Headlands Preserve Vegetation Management Project
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2016012051
Lead Agency
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
(CAL FIRE)
Document Title
Jenner Headlands Preserve Vegetation Management Project
Document Type
NEG - Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
Zoning designation: Publicly Owned Conservation Land: General Plan designation: Other Public Open Lands
Document Description
The Jenner Headlands Preserve will create shaded fuel breaks prior to CAL FIRE implementing prescribed burns within them. The planned west project area is 141 acres and approx. 10,300 linear feet and the planned east project area is 124 acres and approx. 11,500 feet, for a total of 265 acres and approx. 21,800 linear feet. Forty three acres in the east fuel break were treated between 2013 and 2015 by mastication and hand crews, and this will be the first shaded fuel break burn unit. Ladder fuel vegetation was thinned from the shaded fuel break, and brush and trees have begun to sprout. The understory burn will maintain the effectiveness of the fuel break by consuming these small sprouts and the masticated material on the ground with low-intensity fire. As the Preserve works towards treating all 265 planned shaded fuel break acres, CAL FIRE will continue to burn the understory as the fuel breaks are created. Within the project area are two small open grasslands that will be burned for training and ecological restoration. Training activities will include firing operations and mobile attack from fire engines. Ecological restoration will be achieved through removal of heavy thatch build-up will promote native grasses and improve forage for browsers. The meadows range in size from one to four acres and will be broadcast using wet lines for control. Bulldozers or other heavy equipment will not be used to create control lines. Mowing and weedeating may occur in the meadows prior to burning operations in order to modify fuel arrangement to reduce fire intensity.
Contact Information
Name
Christopher E. Browder
Agency Name
Cal Fire
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Counties
Sonoma
Cross Streets
Willig Drive
Zip
95450
Total Acres
265
State Highways
1
Schools
Jenner School
Waterways
Russian River, Pacific Ocean
Township
7/8 N
Range
11W
Section
3-7
Base
MDBM
Other Location Info
Jenner
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
Cal Fire, California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Water Resources, Office of Emergency Services, California, Resources Agency
Development Types
Other (Fuels Reduction, Fuel Break)
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, GHG
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