SFLAP (Small Forest Landowner Assistance Program): Feather Falls 2024
Summary
SCH Number
2024080649
Public Agency
Butte County Resource Conservation District
(BCRCD)
Document Title
SFLAP (Small Forest Landowner Assistance Program): Feather Falls 2024
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/16/2024
Document Description
The project area experienced 90-100% mortality during the 2020 North Complex Fire emergency. The purpose of the project is to
manage vegetation and reduce hazards so the small forest landowners can safely rebuild, maintain ingress-egress routes, utilize their
land, and reduce the likelihood of a future disaster. To achieve this, standing dead trees and brush would be removed, using manual
and mechanical means, logs would be decked using e.g. feller-bunchers, and excess woody biomass would be scattered, removed,
burned on site, and/or (where safe) piled for wildlife habitat, as dictated by fuels levels on each unit. Pile-burns or underburns may
be conducted on some properties. Where natural regeneration is not sufficient, native conifers and hardwoods would be re-planted.
Herbicide may be sprayed, in accordance with label directions, on invasive species . The direct beneficiaries of the project are the
forestlands’ owners and their immediate families and neighbors.
Contact Information
Name
Wolfgang D Rougle
Agency Name
Butte County RCD
Job Title
Planning Program Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Counties
Butte
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Unincorporated Butte County in communities of Feather Falls and Berry Creek.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
15304, Minor Alterations to Land
Reasons for Exemption
This project is exempt because the project consists of minor alterations to vegetation. The project
involves shallow ground disturbance due to equipment that will shred or remove hazardous vegetation; accordingly, full cultural
resources studies with avoidance measures for all located resources are an integrated feature of the project. The project buffers
riparian and wetland zones and involves no channel disturbance, excluding some rare and incidental addition of coarse woody debris
to streams (in cases where fire-weakened hazard trees collapse Into streams). Work will occur outside of nesting season (Feb 1-
August 15), unless pre-Implementation surveys are completed. Archaeological and botanical surveys were completed and this project
will cause less than significant impact. Project implementation, as designed, would have less than significant impact in each resource
area, and an exemption pursuant to § 15304 is indicated.
County Clerk
Butte
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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