SCH Number 2021120239

Project Info

Title

Grant Grove Big Stump Ecological Restoration Project, Phase Two

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for hazardous fuels reduction treatments on at least 2,034 acres of National Park land within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 60 miles east of Fresno. The goal of the project is to implement fuel reduction treatments to protect special-status species including giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves, enhance forest habitat resiliency, improve visitor and employee safety, and protect cultural resource values. The fuel reduction treatments would involve site preparation and thinning/clearing followed by broadcast burning. Thinning and clearing activities would be implemented by piling dead and downed woody material and clearing of 20-foot-wide paths to facilitate fire line construction. Following thinning and clearing, National Parks and U.S. Forest Service fire crews would implement broadcast burn treatments.

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