Northern Trinity County Forest Resilience Partnership: Glennison Gap Area
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024030072
Public Agency
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Northern Trinity County Forest Resilience Partnership: Glennison Gap Area
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/5/2024
Document Description
The Trinity County Resource Conservation District (the District) plans to implement fuels reduction and forest resilience treatments in the form of manual thinning and piling, mastication, and pile and broadcast burning in the Weaver Basin area in Trinity County, CA. This project is an integral part of the District’s landscape strategy aimed at protecting Trinity County communities from future catastrophic wildfire events, returning the county’s forests to a healthy condition, and reintroducing good fire to the landscape. Fuel Reduction treatments will be strategically implemented in overstocked stands in or near the WUI that will contribute to community protection based on topography and historical fire patterns. The project will be implemented on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and includes treatments on approximately 20 acres over one year.
The prescription includes hand thinning, piling, and pile burning of small diameter (less than 10” DBH) conifers and shrubs. 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. Cut materials will bucked and piled, or lopped and scattered, depending on topography and fuel conditions. These treatments will be followed with pile and/or broadcast burns to maintain or improve forest stand conditions.
Contact Information
Name
Bethany Llewellyn
Agency Name
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Forest Health Program Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Weaverville
Counties
Trinity
Regions
Northern California, Unincorporated
Cross Streets
State Highway 299 and Glennison Gap Road
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
State Code 4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
As a fuels reduction project intended to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire, located on federal land, and covered in its entirety by a completed NEPA document, this project is eligle for a statutory exemption.
County Clerk
Trinity
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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