Hood Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve Fire Recovery - Eagle Projects
Summary
SCH Number
2023120524
Public Agency
Sonoma County Regional Parks
(SCRP)
Document Title
Hood Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve Fire Recovery - Eagle Projects
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
12/19/2023
Document Description
In 2017 and 2020, major portions of Hood Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve burned in wildfires. Sonoma County Regional Parks has been working to restore Preserve facilities destroyed or damaged in the fires. Governor Brown declared the 2017 Tubbs Fire (FM-5215-CA) a disaster in Sonoma, Napa, and Yuba counties on October 9, 2017. Sonoma County was added to Governor Newsom’s Disaster Declaration for the Glass Fire on October 22, 2020.
The current project work is a cooperative effort between Regional Parks and two Sonoma County Boy Scouts, dedicating their Eagle Project work to fire recovery. One project will begin the process of reopening the Alder Glen Trail for use by a combination of vegetation management, trimming natives, removing invasives, and erosion control. After the Tubbs Fire, there was significant erosion during winter rains. The Alder Trail has been closed until trail conditions could be made safe. The other project will provide a metal privacy screen, resistant to future fires, around the temporary restroom at Hood Pond Campground, where the previous restroom was destroyed by the Glass Fire.
The projects will be undertaken to help restore recreational opportunities lost in the 2017 and 2020 fires and do so in a way that is more resilient to potential future fires, benefitting Preserve users and the general public.
Contact Information
Name
Laura Saunders
Agency Name
Sonoma County Regional Parks
Job Title
Planning Technician
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
San Francisco Bay Area
Cross Streets
Pythian off Highway 12
Total Acres
<0.1
Parcel #
051-240-001, 030-050-016
State Highways
Hwy 12
Railways
none
Airports
none
Schools
none
Waterways
Santa Rosa Creek, Salt Creek,
Township
6N
Range
7W
Section
7
Base
Mt.D
Other Location Info
Hood Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve
Other Information
Rancho Los Guilicos
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
California Public Resources Code §21080(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA does not apply to projects undertaken by a public agency to repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities damaged or destroyed as a result by a disaster proclaimed by the Governor. The current work is part of Sonoma County Regional Parks work to repair, restore or replace recreational facilities destroyed by fires in a declared disaster zone.
County Clerk
Sonoma
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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