Weaver Basin Community Protection Plan Phase 3
Summary
SCH Number
2022100022
Public Agency
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Weaver Basin Community Protection Plan Phase 3
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/3/2022
Document Description
The Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC) will implement fuels reduction and prescribed burning activities on approximately 1,370 Acres in the community of Weaverville, CA. This project builds on nearly 20 years of deliberate investments in community wildfire protection, watershed restoration and wildlife habitat enhancement in the Weaver basin. It represents a multijurisdictional, inter-agency effort to steward lands surrounding the Weaverville community. Treatment prescriptions include broadcast burning, manual thinning, chipping, hand-piling and burning, and mastication. Thinning will remove live and dead shrubs and small trees up to 12" in diameter to reduce fuel loading. The treatments will provide improved defensible space for structures in the project area, and improve ingress and egress safety in the event of a wildfire. They will also serve to improve forest health by reducing competition, increasing residual tree vigor, and reintroducing low-intensity fire to fire-adapted ecosystems.
Contact Information
Name
Xander Winter
Agency Name
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Forestry and Fuels Program Associate
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Location
Cities
Weaverville
Counties
Trinity
Regions
Citywide
Zip
96093
Total Acres
1370
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15304
Reasons for Exemption
It has been determined that no exceptions apply which would preclude the use of a Notice of Exemption for this project. This project is consistent with the requirements stated in Section 15304; Minor Alterations to land, and will have no significant environmental impacts to aesthetics, agriculture and forestland/timberland, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, land use planning, mineral resources, noise, population and housing, public services, recreation, transportation/traffic, or to utilities and service systems.
County Clerk
Trinity
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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