Building Wildlife Habitat and Community Resilience on Working Lands - Roots 157
Summary
SCH Number
2025041192
Public Agency
California Wildlife Conservation Board
(WCB)
Document Title
Building Wildlife Habitat and Community Resilience on Working Lands - Roots 157
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/24/2025
Document Description
This ~20-acre project is on a property in Alpine County in non-industrial forestland that burned in the 2015 Washington Fire. The project area (and surrounding landscape) has converted to shrub-dominated habitat. The goal of this project is twofold: to increase diversity of habitats by planting native trees which have difficulty establishing in a shrub-dominated landscape on their own, and to increase resiliency of the habitat diversity to future fires by breaking up fuel structure (through the site preparation for tree planting areas). This project will be innovative in that it will not involve the use of
herbicides, but manual labor will be used to maintain tree plantings in the scope of this project and beyond. Tree establishment will be planned specifically to improve wildlife habitat, planning for future climate scenarios where less trees may be expected on the landscape and tree establishment sites may be dependent on north facing slopes or favorable soil conditions. (WCB Project Tracker ID: 2022065).
Contact Information
Name
Rebecca Fris
Agency Name
Wildlife Conservation Board
Job Title
Deputy Executive Director
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Markleeville
Counties
Alpine
Regions
Unincorporated
Parcel #
004-130-0050, 003-120-0010
Township
9N
Range
20E
Section
24; 19
Other Location Info
004-130-0050, 003-120-0010; Mount Diablo Base and Meridian (MDBM) Township 9N, Range 20E, portions of Section 24; T9N, R21E, portions of Section 19.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
(CCR Section §15304): minor alterations to land
Reasons for Exemption
WCB has determined that the objectives of enhancement and restoration of wildlife and pollinator habitat, and the implementation activities as designed for this project, will result in minor alterations to land and vegetation, and therefore fit within the CCR Section 15304 exemptions.
County Clerk
Alpine
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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