Silver Spur Fuel Reduction Project
Summary
SCH Number
2022110573
Public Agency
Tuolumne County Resource Conservation District
(TCRCD)
Document Title
Silver Spur Fuel Reduction Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
11/23/2022
Document Description
The Tuolumne County Resource Conservation District (TCRCD) acting as the Lead Agency, will implement fuel reduction activities to improve the protection of communities and public and private lands from fire while protecting environmental, natural, and cultural resources. The project will reduce fuel loads in an oak woodland forest in the Silver Spur Drive area with the goal of providing landscape level fuel reduction treatments. The project site would best be described as oak woodland. The objective of the project is the reduction of brush, suppressed and intermediate trees, and surface fuels such as fallen trees.
Treatment activities will consist of mastication of surface fuels, brush and trees less than 12-inches diameter at breast height (dbh) to achieve a target spacing of approximately 25-feet between trees. The project will also include hand treatments of brush and small trees. Hand treatments will include hand cutting, piling and burning, or chipping of brush, small trees and surface fuels. Hand treatments will occur around buildings, infrastructure, rocky areas, or isolated steep slopes.
Contact Information
Name
Lindsay Mattos
Agency Name
Tuolumne County Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Regional Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Sonora
Counties
Tuolumne
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
Lodge Road and Yosemite
Zip
95370
Total Acres
43.52
Township
1N
Range
16E
Section
7&8
Base
MD
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15304, which exempts minor alterations in the condition of land, water, and/or vegetation which do not involve r
Reasons for Exemption
The RCD has reviewed the environmental/specialists’ reports prepared by Registered Professional Foresters and other specialists and has determined that the project’s implementation will result in multiple benefits, including restoration of the forest, watershed, and wildlife habitat. There will be no significant adverse impacts on endangered, rare, or threatened species or their habitats. There are no hazardous materials at or around the project site. The project will avoid all archeological resource sites. The project will not result in cumulatively significant impacts. The project will have no significant adverse effect on the environment.
County Clerk
Tuolumne
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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