North Carrizo Prescribed Fire
Summary
SCH Number
2025040984
Public Agency
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4
(CDFW)
Document Title
North Carrizo Prescribed Fire
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/18/2025
Document Description
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, with the assistance of Cal Fire, plans to apply prescribed fire on approximately 800 acres of the Cooper and Section 35 Units of the North Carrizo Ecological Reserve to achieve ecological restoration and noxious weed reduction goals to reduce fuel loading to minimize wildfire risk. The prescribed burn areas are the grasslands east and west of the Carrisa Plains Elementary School, comprised of two separate burn units, each of which have an infestation of Yellow starthistle, a noxious rangeland weed. The two burn plots will be monitored for yellow starthistle vegetative cover pre and post burn and monitoring will be repeated for several years. Control lines would be created by mowing as well as tying into existing features that function as fuel breaks, such as the existing roads.
Contact Information
Name
Dave Hacker
Agency Name
CDFW
Job Title
Wildlife Senior Enviromental Scientist Supervisor
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
San Luis Obispo
Counties
San Luis Obispo
Regions
Southern California
Township
30S
Range
18E
Section
5
Other Location Info
The project is located at the Cooper and Section 35 Units of the North Carrizo Ecological Reserve, San Luis Obispo County:
Other Information
Township 29S Range 18E Sections 33, Mount Diablo Range
Township 29S Range 18E Sections 34, Mount Diablo Range
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 7; California Code of Regulations, title 14, section 15307 and 757(7)(D)
Reasons for Exemption
This project is a regulatory agency action for protection of natural resources, specifically to encourage forb production for elk and pronghorn, to reduce the cover of yellow starthistle, a noxious rangeland weed, and to increase relative cover of native plants. Title 14, Section 757(7)(D) specifically includes controlled burning for habitat productivity as an exempt activity for CDFW. None of the exceptions in Section15300.2 apply.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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