Thompson Peak Initiative Bootsole Forest & Watershed Restoration Project - SNC 1305
Summary
SCH Number
2021070340
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Thompson Peak Initiative Bootsole Forest & Watershed Restoration Project - SNC 1305
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
7/16/2021
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for hazardous fuels reduction treatments on the 4,233-acre project located on federal lands within the Plumas National Forest. Treatments would include ground-based mechanical thinning, hand thinning, hand piling, grapple piling, mastication, and prescribed burning of select conifers. The treatment goals are to reduce hazardous fuels and reduce risk to communities and the landscape from large and severe wildfires. Treatments would result in reduced stand density and would shift the species composition to a greater percentage of drought-tolerant, fire-resistant pine resulting in a landscape more resilient to wildfire, drought, and future climate conditions.
Contact Information
Name
Shannon Ciotti
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Responsible Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Janesville and Milford, CA
Counties
Lassen, Plumas
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
One treatment location centered at approximately 40°13'03.70"N and 120°32'52.86"W
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
State code number: Public Resources Code Section 4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA does not apply to prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under NEPA if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for fuel reduction treatments on the 4,233- acre project located on federal lands within the Plumas National Forest. The proposed activities were reviewed in their entirety under NEPA in the Bootsole Decision Memo signed in April 2021.
County Clerk
Plumas
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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