Trinity County Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project: Phase 2, Browns Mountain Ridgetop
Summary
SCH Number
2023030439
Public Agency
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Trinity County Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project: Phase 2, Browns Mountain Ridgetop
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/16/2023
Document Description
Trinity County Resource Conservation District (The District) plans to implement fuels reduction activities in the form of hand thinning, hand piling, roadside chipping, mastication, pile burning, and broadcast burning on approximately 245 acres associated with this project along the Browns Mountain ridgetop near the communities of Weaverville and Lewiston in Trinity County, CA. Fuel Reduction treatments will be strategically implemented along roadsides and ridgetops and adjacent to habitable structures and critical infrastructure to protect the life and property of residents as well as to provide safe evacuation routes and ease of firefighter access and suppression efforts. The project area includes portions of many different private landowners within the WUI, as well as private timberlands. Topography is moderate to steep (20%-70%) throughout much of the project area and elevations range from approximately 2200’-3600’.
Emphasis will be placed on eliminating the continuity of surface and ladder fuels. Some sub canopy trees may be removed to break up vertical continuity to dominant trees as well as to raise the canopy base height, which will reduce future fire intensity. Prescription will include a combination of the fuels reduction techniques listed above as appropriate based on current conditions, slopes, and access constraints.
Contact Information
Name
Bethany Llewellyn
Agency Name
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Project Coordinator Forest Health
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Weaverville, Lewiston
Counties
Trinity
Regions
Northern California, Unincorporated
Cross Streets
Browns Mountain Road, Elderberry Lane
Zip
96093
Total Acres
245
State Highways
Hwy 3, Hwy 299
Township
33N
Range
9W
Section
15,17
Base
MDM
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Minor alterations to land, 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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