Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024080584
Public Agency
Resource Conservation District of Tehama County
(RCD-TC)
Document Title
Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/15/2024
Document Description
Description of Nature, Purpose, and Beneficiaries of Project:
The Resource Conservation District of Tehama County (RCDTC), and USFS have designed the Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project, landscape carbon sequestration, forest restoration and post August Complex Fire restoration project that will help California meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, improve forest health and ecological functions, as well as restore fire resiliency, and the project area’s natural fire ecology through various forest management treatments.
As a result of improved forest health and fuels/fire ecology conditions, increased rates of growth within forest stands and subsequent rates of greenhouse gas sequestration will be achieved. This project will employ land management strategies to lessen the growing trend of landscape scale habitat changes because of high severity fires that have significantly impacted Mendocino National Forestlands and adjacent communities. The anticipated positive impacts that result from proposed vegetation treatments will improve multiple ecological components within that portion of the South Coast Range within Tehama County including State Responsibility Lands. Among these are carbon sequestration, ecosystem processes, as well as aquatic and wildlife habitat. These efforts will also improve conditions within adjacent communities through improvements in public safety and community sustainability. The goals of this project will be accomplished through:
•Thinning of small understory trees through mastication, hand cutting, and pile burning
•Retention of suitable snag trees within the treatment unit
Contact Information
Name
Seronica Biggs
Agency Name
Tehama County Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Forester
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Paskenta
Counties
Tehama
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
Forest Route 24N19, Whitlock Spur B
Zip
96074
Total Acres
58
Jobs
13
Parcel #
057-230-013-000, 059-170-011-000, 059-210-021-000
Waterways
Mill Creek, South Fork Elder Creek
Township
T24N
Range
R8W
Section
24
Base
MDBM
Other Location Info
T24N R7W Sections 20 and 29
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
Per 4799.05(d)(1) of the California Code, CEQA does not apply to prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands that reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under provisions established in the National Environmental Protection Act. This exemption is contingent upon whether the primary role of a state or local agency is to provide funding or staffing for such projects. In connection with Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project efforts, the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County is providing project funding obtained through the California Climate Investments Fire Prevention Grant Program to conduct fuel reduction activities on federal lands within the Mendocino National Forest. The RCDTC is also providing project management and other personnel necessary to implement project work.
The Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project scope of work described under Description of Nature, Purpose, and Beneficiaries of Project: shown above meet the conditions of California Code 4799.05(d)(1) in that those portions of the project area located on Mendocino National Forest lands have been analyzed under US Forest Service environment analysis processes as described in a NEPA Environmental Assessment document and USFS Decision Memo prepared for each project component described above.
County Clerk
Tehama
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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